The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James. Retold by Michael Lacey Freeman

Theme: Love “She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”   One sleepy summer, an American woman arrives in England, and wakes everybody up. Isabel Archer is an interesting woman. Everybody thinks so. She is an independent woman. Everybody agrees. And she changes the lives of everyone she meets in England. But will England change her?   Syllabus Vocabulary areas Family, relationships, travel Grammar and structures Present, Present Continuous, Past simple regular and irregular, Will, Going to. Present and past perfect, modal verbs, Verb + infinitive, Verb + ing, first and second conditional, Comparatives/Superlatives