Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Eli Graded Readers: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, Adaptation and activities by Elizabeth Ferretti

Young Adult ELI Readers: 144 page fully-illustrated book + audio CD with extensive narrated excerpts from the book. Level B2 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)

Eli Graded Readers: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - Summary:

‘After many more days and nights of study, I discovered exactly how life was created. With this knowledge I became the first man in history to have the power to create life from death.’

Victor Frankenstein is a young, ambitious scientist who wants to make a better world, but does not understand the consequences of his work. Victor makes great advances in the study of medicine and biology and creates a new species of human being – one that is so terrifying it is known simply as ‘the monster’. In this fantastic adventure story, Victor and the monster fight an epic battle of courage and endurance. This science-fiction masterpiece asks questions about science that we are still asking today.

Syllabus:

Verbs

• Present perfect
• Past perfect
• Future tenses including future perfect
• Irregular verbs: would for willingness/refusal
• Third conditional
• If clauses (in zero conditional)
• Used to and would
• Phrasal verbs
• Passive forms
• Infinitive constructions

Conjunctions

• As soon as, but, however, because

Determiners

• Whichever, whatever, whoever etc.
• Either, neither, none, both, little, some, enough, every, most

Sentence types

• Relative clauses: embedded,defining

Modal Verbs

• Will, Might, May
• Shall, Could, Should 

 Other

• Adverbs
• Where clauses 
• Phrases with when 
• Before/After clauses