DAVID COPPERFIELD + CD
Teen Eli Readers - Stage 3 | Intermediate | 1000 headwords | B1 | Preliminary
Classic
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The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity.
In this Reader you will find:
information about Charles Dickens
Tags
Family | Friendship | Love | Adventure
David Copperfield looks back on the first twenty-five years of his life. He is only eight years old when his mother, a young pretty widow, remarries. Unfortunately Mr Murdstone is not a good husband or father. David is sent away to school and only returns home when tragedy strikes. Unloved and unwanted, he is sent to work in a
factory. But David is a resourceful boy and determines to find a better life for himself.
Syllabus
Tenses
Present simple: states, habits, Past simple:
finished time, Past continuous: actions
in progress at a specific time, in past,
interrupted actions, Present perfect
simple: indefinite past, unfinished past,
Past perfect: narrative, Futures:
will/shall, present continuous
Verb forms
Imperatives, Passives: present, past
simple, Gerunds: after verbs, prepositions
Conditionals: 1st conditional: possible
present/future, 2nd conditional:
hypothetical present/future
Reported speech
statements, questions, commands
Modals
Can, could: ability, permission, May, might:
possibility, permission, Must, have to:
obligation, Defining, non-defining clauses,
Purpose clauses
Linkers
So + adjective, such (a) + adjective + noun