The Secret Garden - Beginner A1.1 + downloadable multimedia

Retold by Jane Cadwallader. In this story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a young girl called Mary starts out as unloved and unlovable. She moves home and, through her contact with country life and people, she gradually changes. She discovers an abandoned garden which gives her a driving aim in life: to bring the garden back to life. Mary is a changed child, so changed that, when she finds someone similar to her former self, she decides to change him too. Underlying this story are valuable lessons about the importance of kindness, physical exercise and contact with the natural world.

Vocabulary areas: family, nature, friendship, physical descriptions, feelings.
Grammar and Structure: Present simple, Past simple (regular and irregular forms), Past continuous, Must for obligation, Adverbs of frequency.
In this Reader you will find: Games and language activities, An audio recording of the story, A picture dictionary.
300 headwords.
Tags: Friendship, Overcoming difficulties, Health and happiness.

Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali.

The book is part of the Young Readers - Stage 3 A1.1 series by ELi Publishing.

You can also find the book in Bulgarian - Тайната градина.

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