Mr (B) Good Wives: Beginner (Macmillan Readers 2005)

STAGE 2 Beginner 600 Headwords Past simple Past continuous Future with will/shall Modal- have to Catenative verbs – want to, try to, like to, hate to, stop, start – Present perfect Past perfect See, hear, watch + infinitive or present participle – Nouns in simple apposition Two nouns linked by and – Nouns phrase in apposition to a noun – verb + maximum of two adverbs Verb + maximum of two simple adverbial phrases of direction, time or manner – Adverbs of frecuency – sometimes, never,etc.- Maximum of two adjetives + noun Noun + one Simple adjetival phrese Simple comparatives- Compound sentences with two co-ordinate clauses joined by and, but or or 1866 – Massachusetts, North America.The March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – have grown up.They are young women now.Each sister has a different plan for her future life.Meg is going to marry John Brooke.She wants to have children.Jo wants an exiciting life and she wants to be a famous writer. Amy wants to be a painter and she wants to travel to Europe.Beth wants to stay at home.She wants to have a happy, quiet life.And what about the girls’best friend,Laurie?what will his future be?