Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Eli Graded Readers: Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë, Retold by Liz Ferretti

Young Adult ELI Readers: 128 page fully-illustrated book + audio CD with extensive narrated excerpts from the book. Level B1 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)

Eli Graded Readers: Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - Summary:

Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller, and most critics liked it. One reviewer wrote: ‘It is one of the most powerful domestic romances which have been published for many years.’

Jane Eyre is an orphan, and all alone in the world. But she is no ordinary young woman; despite her lonely and unhappy childhood, she is determined to succeed at a time when women had little freedom. When she meets the enigmatic Mr Rochester, however, her independent spirit is put to the test. Will Jane ever find the happiness she desires so much?

Syllabus:

Verb tenses

• Present Continuous: future plans and activities, present actions
• Past Perfect Simple: in reported speech and narrative 

Modal verbs

• can’t: logical necessity 
• could: ability (was able to/managed to), possibility, polite requests 
• may/can/could: permission might (present and future reference): possibility, permission 
• must: logical necessity and obligation 
• would: hypothesis, polite requests 
• should: (present and future reference): moral obligation, advice 
• used to/would: past habits and states 

Verb forms and patterns

• Past forms with going to and will Verb + object + full infinitive (e.g. I want you to help.

Simple reported speech

• statements, questions and commands with say, ask, tell
• Phrasal verbs/verbs with prepositions had better for advice or desirability