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‘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.’ 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 thechildren are hiding a terrible secret. Are there ghosts atBly, 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. Stage 4 - Young Adult ELI Readers - below B2 *** Sú tu v Bly duchovia, alebo sa opatrovateľka zbláznila? Mladá žena nastúpila prvýkrát do práce ako opatrovateľka, ktorá má na starosti dve malé siroty, Milesa a Floru, žijúce vo vidieckom dome zvanom Bly. Deti sú úžasné a vychované, ale nie je to príliš dobré, aby to bola pravda? Keď začne opatrovateľka vidieť zvláštne veci, začne tušiť, že deti majú desivé tajomstvo.