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READING & TRAINING K E Y T O T H E A C T I V I T I E S

Bram Stoker
3 Two of them had dark hair and 4 The Count’s breath had a terrible

Dracula
eyes that were almost red. The odour, which made Jonathan feel
third one had blonde hair and sick.
light blue eyes. All had bright 5 The Count was going to buy a
white teeth and sensuous lips. property called Carfax, which was
4 They were going to bite him. near a lunatic asylum.
5 The Count came in and stopped 6 Jonathan discovered he was a
them. prisoner in the castle, which was
KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES 6 He gave them a baby to feed on. on a 1000-foot-high precipice.
7 He could tell from the date on the 7 The Count, who could climb down
last letter he wrote. walls like a lizard, knew English
About the Author Page 11 – activity 2 8 Earth in large boxes. very well.
1 Munich 2 the landlady 3 worried 9 His eyes were open, but Jonathan
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4 afraid 5 go faster 6 an hour could not tell whether he was
1 F – He was a sickly child. alive or dead. May 5
7 became excited 8 smiled 9 was
2 F – He later asked her to write 10 His grey hair had turned dark. His Finally, Jonathan Harker has arrived!
going
them down for him. lips were redder and he was I have been waiting for this day for
3 T Page 22 – activity 1 round with blood. years. Things could not be better. Mr
4 F – Mina believes women should 1B2A3D4D5D6C7D 11 He realized that he was a monster Harker seems like a perfect young
always work for the men in their and that he was helping to bring Englishman – the kind who can
lives – Mina is a strong woman Page 23 – activity 2 teach me to speak English so that no
him to London where he would
but not independent. Open answers. create thousands more monsters one will suspect that I am from
5 T just like himself. Transylvania. I also think he will be
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6 T 12 He locked him in his room, and he easy to manipulate. I was even able
7 T Open answers. kept wolves around the castle. to block him from killing me with a
8 F – Irving sucked his ‘financial Page 24 – activity 4 13 Because the Count went around shovel by simply using hypnotic
blood’. wearing Jonathan’s clothes. powers – the power of my eyes. This
1D2E3C4B5A makes me believe that I can make
9 T 14 He was going to climb down the
10 T Page 26 – activity 1 castle wall. him do whatever I want, and then in
11 F – The book’s Dracula comes A3B6C1D4E2F5 the end I will kill him. First I will dine
from earlier Gothic books. Page 38 – activity 2 on his blood and then I will let my
12 T 1 Jonathan left for the Count’s three wives of evil have some of his
13 F – He has appeared in more CHAPTER TWO castle on 4 May, which was the blood too. Then all will be well and I
than 200 films. eve of St George’s Day. can go to London and begin my
14 T 2 The Count’s coach, which was invasion. In just a few years I will
Page 37 – activity 1 pulled by four splendid horses, have thousands and thousands of
1 At first he was curious, but then arrived. vampires that I command. In the end,
CHAPTER ONE his feeling of curiosity changed to 3 One of Jonathan’s companions on I will rule all!
horror and disgust. the coach said, ‘The dead travel
2 Because it gave him pleasure to fast’, which is a line from a famous
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disobey the Count. German poem.
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Real Vampires
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1 T
2 F
3 F – He thought that there was
every kind of proof to show that
vampires existed.
4 F – The reports on vampires
created a big sensation.
5 F – All the major capitals of
Europe began to learn about the
belief in vampires.
6 F – Scientists have found that
the description of the vampire is
the description of a decomposing
body.
7 T
8 T
9 F – They were written in German.
10 F – The first literary vampires
appeared in the 1730s.
11 T
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1 he has written her 2 no
3 Dr Seward 4 all around the world
5 the graveyard
CHAPTER THREE
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A C T I V I T I E S K E Y T O T H E A C T I V I T I E S
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CHAPTER FOUR Page 72 – activity 3
O A 1 calm 2 rude 3 old-fashioned
2 CRAWL 4 servant 5 relaxed 6 gradual
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3 4 N 7 sadness 8 dark 9 carelessly
1 F – He was usually nice and 10 cowardly 11 strenght 12 rare
S S E respectful. 13 bright 14 dull 15 far
6 5 W H I S P E R 2 F – He arrived by chance at B 1 brave 2 dim 3 weakness
S O A Lucy’s home when they were 4 sudden 5 sadness 6 servant
T 8 U R about to perform the transfusion. 7 advanced 8 rare 9 sharp
3 T 10 pale 11 accurately 12 common
7 N I G H T M A R E
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5 F – He concluded that this was
K R 9 H O W L impossible – otherwise the bed 1 recorded 2 interestingly
16 17 R A would have been full of blood. 3 harmless 4 successful 5 British
10 M I R R O R N 6 F – She did not understand what 6 unsuccessful 7 pathologist
E U R D happened to her – that was what 8 deadly 9 unlucky 10 lucky
made it so terrifying. She called it
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a ‘horror’, ‘a weakness’.
12 S O O N A Open answers.
7 F – She even thought that Van
Y U 13 D E A D Helsing was joking with her.
14 C R E W Y 8 F – She got much worse. Vampire Bats
9 F – Her mother died of fright. Page 78 – activity 1
10 T
Page 58 – activity 3 1 Fruit.
Open answers. Page 71 – activity 2 2 About 1,000 species.
1 all the evil things in the world 3 In the American tropics.
Page 58 – activity 4 4 They are only 8 centimetres long.
have complete power
Open answers. 2 a nightmare 5 Using echolocation, or sonar.
3 pointed ears and teeth 6 For seeing.
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4 London and the English language 7 A protein in the bat’s saliva which
Open answers. prevents blood from coagulating.
5 reflected in Jonathan’s mirror
Page 60 – activity 2 6 he saw the blood of a small razor 8 Because otherwise they would be
cut too heavy to fly.
Open answers. 9 Because, although the bite is not
7 millions of people to feed on
Page 60 – activity 3 8 more demons like himself particularly dangerous, there is the
1 ill 2 be married 3 read his note- 9 the lunatic asylum danger of getting rabies.
book 4 a philosopher and a scientist 10 suck the blood Page 79 – activity 1
5 be dying 6 Amsterdam 7 blood 11 very pale
Open answers.
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Page 79 – activity 2 Page 100 – activity 2 2 F – She couldn’t – she was 7 see them again 8 a red cloth
1 To stay with Lucy during the night. Medicine: veins, transfusion, blocked because the circle was 9 sport 10 taking long fast walks
2 16 September. narcotic, fever, ill made with the Sacred Wafer.
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3 The morning of 18 September. Animals and how they move and 3 F – She herself was part vampire
so she knew that they would no Open answers.
4 She told him to kiss her. sound: spider, flapping, bat, howl,
5 Nothing – he was too shocked. moth, fox attack her.
6 That he would protect Arthur and Vampire things: coffin, garlic, 4 F – They considered her an ally, Victorian Villains,
give her peace. punctures, stake ‘a sister’. Monsters and Fears
Head and face: forehead, lips, throat, 5 F – He found the courage when
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chin he thought that he was going to
CHAPTER FIVE give them peace. 1 The fact that they play with the
Page 101 – activity 3 6 T fear of invasion of Britain.
Open answers. 7 T 2 The fear of foreigners who
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1 V, I 2 V, J 3 L, A 4 L, B 5 V, E Page 102 – activity 4 ‘British race’.
9 F – He realized that they had no
6 J, D 7 J, F 8 V, G 9 A, C 10 V, H 1C2A3A4B5C6A7D official documents only personal 3 When the British in foreign lands
8D 9A writings. adopted native morals, ideals and
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10 F – No, they found it almost customs.
1 but 2 one 3 turned 4 that Page 103 – activity 1
impossible to think it was the 4 A character from the novel Trilby
5 both 6 called 7 could 8 who Open answers. by George du Maurier, who was
place of such great suffering.
9 has one of Stoker’s models for Count
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CHAPTER SEVEN A 5; 1 patient 2 forehead 5 Erik from The Phantom of the
1 may have made 2 let me read
B 4; 3 asylum 4 scream Opera by Gaston Leroux.
3 what I thought 4 courageous
Page 115 – activity 1 C 6; 5 mind 6 tricked 6 The fear of the very close ties that
enough 5 was not 6 we should
1E2G3A4J5H6N7I8C D 2; 7 newspapers 8 graveyard men have to animals.
marry 7 what is wrong 8 could not
9 M 10 F 11 D 12 B E 9; 9 sunset 10 throat 11 scar 7 A character from The Strange Case
have come
F 3; 12 tomb 13 pointed 14 drive of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R. L.
Page 93 – activity 4 Page 116 – activity 2 15 real Stevenson; he represents the evil
Open answers. 1F2G3C4B5A6D G 7; 16 carriage side of Dr Jekyll.
H 8. 17 wagon 18 ground 8 The immortal white queen of an
Page 93 – activity 1 Page 118 – activity 1 I 1; 19 punctures 20 kiss 21 peace African tribe, from the novel She
A3B1C2 1B2B3B4B5C by H. Rider Haggard.
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9 The fear of invasion, of ‘reverse
1 was always sick 2 the sea/Dublin colonization’, of the animal inside
CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER EIGHT Bay 3 drive stakes in the bodies of each one of us, of the ‘new
4 a little girl 5 in the north of woman’.
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