The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

Eli Graded Readers: The Turn of the Screw - Henry James, Adaptation and activities by Janet Borsbey and Ruth Swan

Young Adult ELI Readers: 128 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: The Turn of the Screw - Henry James - Summary:

‘After I had accepted the position and agreed to his condition, I had two or three very bad days. I was full of doubts, sure I had made a terrible mistake. I was in this state of mind as I sat in the uncomfortable coach which was taking me to my new home.’

A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and Flora, at a country house called Bly. The children are beautiful and well-behaved, but are they too good to be true? When the governess starts to experience strange visions, she suspects that the children are hiding a terrible secret. Are there ghosts at Bly, or is the governess going mad? Henry James’s classic ghost story is retold here at level B2.

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, and, because

Determiners 

• whichever, whatever, whoever etc. 
• either, neither, none, both, little, some, enough, every, most
• time phrases

Sentence types

• Relative clauses: embedded, defining

Modal Verbs

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

Other

• Adverbs
• Where clauses
• Phrases with when
• Before/After clauses (not with future reference)