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Jane Eyre Synopsis
Extensive reading improves fluency and
there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, graded
material that will instantly appeal to students with a limited knowledge
of English.Please note: this a graded reader for students
who are learning English and does not contain the original
text but is an adapted version.
Orphan Jane Eyre lives an unhappy life, but her life as a governess
improves through her friendship with Mr Rochester. Can she achieve
true happiness in a place filled with dark secrets?
Teachers will be keen to promote Charlotte Bront?'s well-known
classic to their students. The reader is illustrated with full-colour
stills from the recent 2006 BBC adaptation.
- SECONDARY LEVEL 2
- BOOK ONLY
- Perfect also
for native English speaking children who are struggling with their
reading
- A popular film with global recognition factor.
- Full colour stills from the BBC adaptation enables students
to read fluently and with enjoyment, as well as providing
a useful visual context.
- People and Places section
provides clear visual context before students start
reading.
- Fact File section provides a background
to the Bront? family, and gives a historical and social
context for her work
- Self-study activities enable students
to check their progress as they read.
Series
Information
- Secondary ELT Readers is a
series of contemporary teenage-focused titles, simplified for students
of English as a Foreign Language.
- The series covers
five levels from Starter Level (Beginners) to Level 4 (Upper-Intermediate)
and is aimed at students aged twelve to eighteen.
- Each reader is available in Book Only or Book and CD formats.
- The CD features an audio recording of the story for reading
along.
- There are also online resource sheets providing
extra activities and background information for the teacher.
About This Edition
Press Reviews
Charlotte Brontë Press Reviews
'At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Bronte.'
--Virginia Woolf
Author
About Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë lived from 1816 to 1855. In 1824 she was sent away to school with her four sisters and they were treated so badly that their father brought them home to Haworth in Yorkshire. The elder two sisters died within a few days and Charlotte and her sisters Emily and Anne were brought up in the isolated village. They were often lonely and loved to walk on the moors. They were all great readers and soon began to write small pieces of verse and stories.
Once Charlotte’s informal education was over she began to work as a governess and teacher in Yorkshire and Belgium so that she could add to the low family income and help to pay for her brother Branwell’s art education. Charlotte was a rather nervous young woman and didn’t like to be away from home for too long. The sisters began to write more seriously and published poetry in 1846 under male pen names – there was a lot of prejudice against women writers. The book was not a success and the sisters all moved on to write novels. Charlotte’s best-known book, Jane Eyre, appeared in 1847 and was soon seen as a work of genius.
Charlotte’s life was full of tragedy, never more so than when her brother Branwell and sisters Emily and Anne died within a few months in 1848/49. She married her father’s curate in 1854 but died in 1855, before her fortieth birthday.
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