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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Adapted by Maud Jackson Activities by James Tierney
Love
The Durbeyfield family are poor and simple people, but their ancestors were the mighty d’Urbervilles, an ancient and noble family. When the Durbeyfields meet with misfortune, they send their oldest daughter, Tess, to visit her wealthy cousin and ask for help, but the wealthy cousin has a young son, Alec Stoke-d’Urberville, who finds Tess very attractive…
Dossiers within the reader:
No Sex, Please, We’re Victorians, Stonehenge
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 B2.2:
Present Perfect Simple for negative duration (haven’t… for ages) – Present Perfect Continuous for recent activities leading to present situation – Past Perfect Continuous – Passive forms with Past Perfect Simple & with unrestricted use of modal verbs – Reported speech introduced by more examples of precise reporting verbs (e.g. threaten, insist, complain) – Wish, if only & it’s time + past tense – Mixed conditional sentences – Complex sentences with more than one subordinate clause
Answer key is available online (please contact us for password)
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