The Turn of the Screw

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)\r\n\r\n