A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s most famous historical novel.

Set in Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution, this is the story of two men, Frenchman, Charles Darnay, and Englishman, Sydney Carton. As the Revolution takes hold and the Terror begins, the two men’s destinies bring them together in a powerful story of love, hate and revenge. We meet revolutionaries and aristocrats, and see the poverty of many in both London and Paris contrasted with the wealth of a few.

Syllabus:
Verbs: Present Perfect Continuous - Past Perfect Continuous - perfect infinitives - a variety of phrasal verbs - complex passive forms - wish/if only - modal verbs: might, needn’t - reporting verbs: explain, repeat, reply, answer, ask, cry, scream, shout - tenses with This is the first …
Types of Clause type-three conditionals - mixed conditionals - relative: embedded, defining
Other connectives:
although, despite, in spite of, however - time sequencers - inversion.

Stage 4 - Upper Intermediate - 1800 headwords - B2 - FCE

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Príbeh je zasadený do Paríža a Londýna v čase Francúzskej revolúcie, do životov dvoch mužov – Francúza Charlesa Darnaya a Angličana Sydneyho Cartona. Ako sa začne revolúcia, nastáva skutočný des a mužov spojí osud prostredníctvom lásky, nenávisti a pomsty. V príbehu stretávame revolucionárov aj aristokratov a vidíme chudobu v oboch mestách ako protiklad k hŕstke vyvolených.
A Tale of Two Cities (Príbeh dvoch miest) je najslávnejší historický román Charlesa Dickensa.