Dubliners - James Joyce

Eli Graded Readers: Dubliners - James Joyce, 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: Dubliners - James Joyce - Summary:

Joyce’s first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time.

An ambitious mother, a boy in love, a lonely older man, a cynical intellectual and a girl who dreams of a life in another country are just a few of Joyce’s Dubliners. In these realistic tales, Joyce reveals the hopes, fears and disappointments of his characters. He also shows us turnof- the-century Dublin in fascinating detail. This selection of eight stories from Dubliners includes Eveline, Araby and a two-part adaptation of Joyce’s novella, The Dead.

Syllabus:

Verbs

• tenses with This is the first …
• Present Perfect Continuous
• Past Perfect Continuous
• Perfect infinitives
• Future Perfect
• A wide variety of phrasal verbs
• Complex passive forms
• Wish/ if only

Types of Clause

• type-three conditionals
• mixed conditionals
• relative: embedded, defining

Modal Verbs

• might, may