The Secret Garden - Young

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

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

 

Friendship | Overcoming difficulties | Health and happiness