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The Turn of the Screw
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Adapted by Maud Jackson Activities by Justin Rainey
Mystery & horror
In the 1840s, a young woman is employed as governess to two children in an English country house. The children are beautiful and charming, and – for a while – the young woman thinks her position is both easy and pleasant. Then she begins to see the ghosts of the former governess Miss Jessel and the manservant Peter Quint...
Dossiers within the reader:
Governesses and Upper-class Children, Puritanism
Features:
- aimed at teenagers and adults
- introduction about the author and his/her times
- wide variety of motivating activities
- activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams
- fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text
- a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities
- extensive vocabulary footnotes
- exit tests
- guided Internet projects
The list below shows the main grammatical structures used at level B2.1:
Present Perfect Simple with the first/second/etc. time that … – Present Perfect Continuous with for & since – Passive forms with the Present Perfect Simple – Reported speech with precise reporting verbs (e.g. suggest, promise, apologise, etc.) – 3rd Conditional: if + past perfect, … would(n’t) have – All conditionals with may &
might – Non-defining relative clauses with which & whose – Clauses of concession with even though, in spite of & despite
Answer key is available online (please contact us for password)
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