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.’

Tag
Ghost story

In this Reader you will find:
- Information about Henry James’s life
- Sections focusing on background and context
- Glossary of difficult words
- Comprehension activities
- FCE-style activities
- Exit test

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)