Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Eli Graded Readers: Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf, Retold by Richard J. Larkham

Young Adult ELI Readers: 144 page fully-illustrated book + audio CD with extensive narrated excerpts from the book. Level C1 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)

Eli Graded Readers: Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - Summary:

Mrs Dalloway is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels.

London 1923. The First World War has been over for five years, but the effects are still being felt all round the metropolis. A ocialite and politician’s wife prepares for one of her famous parties while somewhere else in the city an old friend contemplates the pain of past and present love, a war veteran struggles with his inner demons, and other characters live out the uncertainties and dramas of post-war English society. All touch each other in some way with their actions, directly or obliquely.

Syllabus:

Verbs

• Past Simple, Past Continuous, Present
• Perfect Simple and Continuous, Past
• Perfect, Simple and Continuous, Future
• Will and going to
• Phrasal verbs

Modal verbs

• Could/ could have (past ability)
• Should/ should have
• Will/shall
• Would/would have (habitual action/future in the past)
• Might/might have (future/present/past possibility)
• Must/must have (obligation/ past deduction)
• Must not (prohibition)
• Need not (necessity)

 Other

• Free indirect speech,
• Like
• If clauses (zero, 1-2-3)
• Had better
• Gerund
• As if