The Portrait of a Lady

STAGE 3 Intermediate | 1000 headwords | B1 | Preliminary | Classic

“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