The Canterville Ghost

Stage 3 300 headwords | A1.1 | Movers | Classic

Oscar Wilde. Retold by Jane Cadwallader. Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali.

Do you believe in ghosts? Well, the Otis family didn’t until they met the Canterville Ghost.
This is a story of life and death and love … of a ghost trapped in the present because of the bad thing he did in the past and how a young girl helps him to move on.

Tags

• The Supernatural
• Human values

In this Reader you will find:

• Games and language activities
• An audio recording of the story
• A picture dictionary

Syllabus

Vocabulary areas

• Time,
• family and friends,
• the home,
• weather

Grammar and structures

• Present, present continuous, past
• Verb + infinitive
• Adverbs
• Descriptive adjectives
• Prepositions of place