A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Theme Love 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.