Oscar Wilde - The Canterville Ghost

Oxford University Press Stage 2

Chapter 2

Task 1
Answer the following questions.
1. Why did Mr Otis want to give a bottle of Tammany’s Sun Oil to Sir Simon?
2. What did the ghost feel after this episode?
3. What did the twins do?
4. How many housekeepers ran away from the house because of the ghost?
5. How did Lord Augustus die?
6. What did the ghost do with Lady Stutfield?
7. How long had Sir Simon been a ghost?
8. Why was the ghost unhappy?

Task 2 – True or false?

1. After meeting the ghost Lady Stutfield never spoke again.
2. Washington cleaned up the stain every day.
3. Mr Otis always locked the library.
4. The ghost’s eyes turned to red when he was angry.
5. The bloodstain always reappeared.
6. Mr Otis took the Sun oil into the ghost’s hands
7. The ghost screamed after Mr Otis went back into his room.
8. The ghost was happy when people were afraid of him.

Task 3
Describe the following words.
1. breakfast
2. library
3. chains
4. bottle
5. skeleton

Task 4
Describe the ghost. How did he look like?
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Task 5
Match the words. Don’t use the book.
A)secret 1) noise
B) strange 2) ghost
C) sound of 3) times
D)large 4) room
E) the most famous 5) away
F) run 6) pillow
G) happy 7) footsteps

Task 6
Match the questions and the names. There are two extra names. What did
these “extra” people do? Who are they? Don’t use the book. (Chapter 1-2)

1) Who saw a skeleton in the armchair?

2) Who was the housekeeper?
3) Who went into the secret room?
4) Who was murdered in 1575?
5) Who asked Virginia to marry him?
6) Who wanted to get rid of the house?
7) Who tried to clean up the bloodstain every day?
8) Who couldn’t sleep because of the noises at night?
9) Who liked playing tricks?
10)Who didn’t ever speak after meeting the ghost?

A)The twins
B) Mrs Umney
C) Hiram B. Otis
D)Washington
E) Lord Augustus
F) Lady Stutfield
G) Sir Simon
H)Lord Canterville
I) Lady Eleanor de Canterville
J) The Dutchess of Bolton
K) Lady Canterville
L) The Duke of Cheshire

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Task 7
What do we know about these things?
A)Pinkerton’s Famous Stain Cleaner
B) Tammany’s Sun Oil

Task 8
Who said, when, why? (Chapter 1-2)
1) “Very well.”
2) “Welcome to Canterville Chase.”
3) “Oh, that’s terrible.”
4) “That’s strange.”
5) “My dear man.”
6) “It’s too bad.”

Task 9
Put the words in order. Don’t use the book.
1. again, bloodstain, morning, there, the, the, was. In … .
2. library, the, closed, locked, windows, the and, door. Mr Otis … .
3. question, the, their, to, answer, had. They … .
4. America, it, uses, in. Everybody … .
5. think, Canterville, and, the, to, ghost, sat, tried, moonlight, in, down. The …
.

Task 10
Odd-one-out. Don’t use the book.
The ghost thought about the Otis.
a. modern
b. terrible
c. American
d. sleepy

The ghost thought about the past.

a. It was wonderful.
b. Everybody was afraid of him.
c. He frightened the Duchess of Bolton with his chains.
d. He was famous.

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Task 11
Change one letter to become another English word.

1. chain ____________________
2. long ____________________
3. bed ____________________
4. floor ____________________
5. head ____________________
6. back ____________________
7. those ____________________
8. most ____________________
9. soon ____________________
10. night ____________________

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SOLUTION
Task 1
1) Because his chains were so noisy and Mr Otis wanted the ghost to put some oil on
those chains.
2) He was angry.
3) They dropped a large pillow past the ghost’s head.
4) 4
5) He shot himself in the library.
6) He put / held his cold fingers around her long white neck while she sat at dinner.
7) For 300 years.
8) Because the Otis family wasn’t afraid of him.

Task 2 – True or false?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
T T F F T F T T

Task 3
Describe the following words.
1) breakfast a meal in the morning
2) library a room in a house where are a lot of books
3) chains a lot of metal rings joined together in a line
4) bottle It’s a receptacle in which you can keep liquid, for example milk. It’s made of
glass or plastic.
5) skeleton The internal structure composed of bone

Task 4
Describe the ghost. How did he look like?
He was an old man with eyes as a fire. His grey hair was long and dirty, his clothes were
old and full of holes. There were heavy metal chains round his arms and legs.

Task 5
Match the words. Don’t use the book.
1b, 2e, 3g, 4a, 5f, 6d, 7c

Task 6
Match the questions and the names. There are two extra names. What did these
“extra” people do? Who are they? Don’t use the book. (Chapter 1-2)
1e, 2b, 3g, 4i, 5l, 6h, 7d, 8k, 9a, 10f

Hiram B.Otis: an American businessman who bought Canterville Chase.

The Duchess of Bolton: She was dressing for dinner when two skeleton hands were put
on her shoulder. She became ill after it.

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Task 7
What do we know about these things?
C) Pinkerton’s Famous Stain Cleaner
It’s a little black stick.
It can clean up everything.
D) Tammany’s Sun Oil
It’s in a small bottle.
It helps the chains to be silent.

Task 8
Who said, when, why? (Chapter 1-2)
1) Lord Canterville – when he sold the house – because he wanted to be sure Hiram
B. Otis understood him.
2) Mrs Umney – when the Otis arrived at Canterville Chase – because she greeted
the family
3) Mrs Otis – when she learnt the stain was a bloodstain – because she didn’t want
any bloodstain on her floor
4) Washington – while he was trying to clean the bloodstain again – because he
couldn’t understand why it didn’t come off (eltűnik folt)
5) Mr Otis – when he couldn’t sleep because of the noise what was made by the
ghost – because he wanted to sleep
6) The ghost – when he remembered the happy times in the past – because he was
angry and wanted to frighten the family

Task 9
Put the words in order. Don’t use the book.
1) In the morning the bloodstain was there again.
2) Mr Otis closed the windows and locked the library door.
3) They had the answer to their question.
4) Everybody in America uses it.
5) The Canterville ghost sat down in the moonlight and tried to think.

Task10
Kakukktojás. Don’t use the book.
The ghost thought about the Otis.
e. modern
f. terrible
g. American
h. sleepy
The ghost thought about the past.
e. It was wonderful.
f. Everybody was afraid of him.
g. He frightened the Duchess of Bolton with his chains.
h. He was famous.

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Task 11
Betűátalakító: Change one letter to become another English word.
11. chain chair
12. long song
13. bed bad
14. floor flour
15. head dead
16. back lack
17. those these
18. most cost
19. soon moon
20. night light, sight

But there are more potential answers.