The Mill on the Floss

STAGE 4 Upper Intermediate | 1800 headwords | B2 | First (FCE) | Classic

‘She was looking for a key to understand. Then she could deal with the heavy weight that had fallen on her young heart’.

Maggie is a curious girl. She asks many questions. And she wants some answers. What do people mean when they say she is too intelligent? When can she go to school like her brother? Why is a girl’s hair so important? As she gets older her questions change but her curiosity remains just as strong. Walk with Maggie and read her story to find out if she gets some  answers to these questions.

Syllabus

Verbs: Present Perfect/Present Perfect

Continuous – Past Perfect/Past Perfect

Continuous – Conditionals – Future

Continuous – Future Perfect – Modal

Perfects (Must have, Could have etc.)

– Non-defining and defining relative

clauses – Would and Used to for past

In this Reader you will find:

Background information about this novel | A short

biography of the author, George Eliot | Culture

and society in 1860s England | Glossary of difficult

words | Comprehension and grammar activities |

Final test

Tags

Family | Love | Society