Remember Miranda Stage 1

Before Reading Before reAding chApter 5

Encourage speculation. The best answers are 1b,

activities answers
2b and 2d, but do not tell students this before they
Before reading activities (page 44) read the chapter. Let them check their guesses after
they have read the chapter.
Activity 1 before reading

1 Yes 2 No 3 Perhaps 4 Yes 5 No 6 No 7 Perhaps

Activity 2 before reading
After Reading
1d 2c 3a
Activity 1 after reading

Activity 3 before reading 1 Cathy 10 Duncan

Open answers. Encourage students to speculate and 2 Juliet 11 Cathy
to make guesses, but do not tell them the answers. 3 Mrs Harvey 12 Nick
None of the possible answers given is exactly true; 4 Nick 13 Miranda
the ones that come closest are number 3 (some 5 Miranda 14 Duncan
people hated her) and numbers 5 and 6 (some 6 Duncan 15 Mrs Harvey
people might think that she did something terrible, 7 Nick 16 Juliet
or was a bad mother). 8 Cathy 17 Miranda
9 Juliet 18 Mrs Harvey
While Reading Possible descriptions:
• Cathy works at Beach House. She looks after Susan
and Tim, but (she) is lonely because she has no friends.
chApter 1 while reading
• Juliet was Miranda’s sister. She works as a teacher and
1 Why . . .? Because the weather was bad, and because
(she) loves Nick very much.
there was a tree down across the road in Cromer.
• Mrs Harvey has arthritis and (she) walks with a stick.
2 Who . . .? Nick Watson.
She often feels upset because she can’t look after the
3 Why . . .? Because he didn’t like Nick Watson.
children.
4 Who . . .? Miranda’s sister.
• Nick is tall with blue eyes. He lives in a farm near
5 Who . . .? Juliet.
Beach House and (he) likes to have lots of women
6 Why . . .? Because Miranda was unhappy and lonely.
friends.
chApter 2 while reading • Miranda died two years ago. She loved her children but
1 Nick, to Cathy. (she) wanted to leave Duncan because she loved Nick.
2 Cathy, to Nick. • Duncan has a job with a big London company. He
3 Mrs Harvey, to Cathy. plays with his children every day and (he) is kind to his
4 Cathy, to Susan. mother.
5 Tim, to Cathy.
Activity 2 after reading
chApter 3 while reading DunCAn: What’s the matter, Juliet? You look upset.
1 Duncan drove the children to school every morning. Juliet: I am upset! I want to talk to you about
2 Nick’s Landrover nearly hit Cathy’s car. Miranda.
3 Cathy did not know about Juliet and Nick. DunCAn: Miranda’s not happy. I know that. She’s
4 Cathy learnt about Miranda’s accident from old lonely because I often work in London.
newspapers in the library. Juliet: Well, she’s not lonely now. She’s very friendly
5 Miranda fell down the stairs at her home and died in with Nick.
hospital. DunCAn: Nick? But you’re Nick’s girlfriend! I often
6 Duncan Harvey was at home on the day of his wife’s see your car at his farm.
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accident. Juliet: Yes, I know, but that doesn’t stop Miranda.

She loves Nick and she wants to live with him.
chApter 4 while reading
DunCAn: What?! No, no, that’s not true!
1 Tim. 4 Duncan. 5 Nick.
Juliet: Oh yes it is! She told me yesterday.
2 Cathy. 3 Juliet. 6 Miranda.
DunCAn: And why are you telling me?
Juliet: Because I want you to stop her, Duncan! Talk
to her. Talk to her soon, before she leaves you
and the children.

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 Activity 3 after reading

The picture goes on page 37.

1 Mrs Harvey and Miranda.
2 Duncan is downstairs in the kitchen, and the
children are in bed.
3 Mrs Harvey pushed Miranda with her stick, and
activities answers

Miranda fell down the stairs.

Lines taken from the text on page 37 would make
suitable captions, for example:
• ‘I pushed her.’
• ‘She was on the stairs and I pushed her with my stick.’
Or students might like to be more imaginative and
invent something that Mrs Harvey said to Miranda,
for example:
• ‘No, Miranda! You must stay here with us!’
• ‘Your home is here, Miranda, with Duncan and the
children and me.’
Activity 4 after reading

If students need help with this, encourage them

to look at the names and the pronouns carefully,
and the links in the language; e.g. What happened
yesterday? – Duncan phoned the police. /
Grandma loved my sister! – Yes, she loved her.
5 Juliet: What happened yesterday? Nick phoned me.
He saw the police here.
4 CAthy: Duncan called the police. His mother
wanted to tell them something about Miranda’s
accident.
1 Juliet: Tell them what? She told them everything
two years ago.
6 DunCAn: Well, not everything. You see, Mother
killed Miranda. She pushed her down the stairs.
3 Juliet: I don’t believe it! Grandma loved my sister!
2 DunCAn: Yes, she loved her. But Mother didn’t want
Miranda to leave me and the children.
Activity 5 after reading

Before completing this passage, students should re-

read the first two paragraphs of Chapter 1.
The police came and took Mrs Harvey away. Later, she
went to live in a hospital. I stayed at Beach House with
Duncan. We are very happy, and now the children have a
new mother. Juliet and I are good friends, and Juliet/she
often visits us. And what about Nick at the farm? Well,
perhaps Juliet visits him sometimes, but that’s her secret.
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