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ACTIVITY BEFORE READING ChApTers 9 And 10 whIlE READING
ACTIVITY 3 BEFORE READING enough
and remembering money to pay the 200 marks.
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ChApTers
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guesses but do not tell them the answers. They will
this. They
in 1945.
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in Poland,
find out as they read that the only ‘yes’ answers are
the story.
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4 Because
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Switzerland
7 Sydney Carton to find their mother, and that they
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where the and to make
trains slow down.
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man called Gaspard. guesses,
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of Darnay
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Guillotine the next day.
find out as they read that the answers are 1c and find out
5412 T
2b.
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wine-shop, butwhere do not
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Hannay
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was about own people.
killed Australia
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READING READING
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whomeeting.
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his heart while he was chapter.
and
stop theget The the
killing ‘yes’
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sleeping. said that a cover for racing.
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because
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Warsaw
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remember in when
winter. he was
uncle. that there was a man who a child. 7letter,
ChApTers 4 To 6 whIlE READING the first hotel because it didn’t have roses round theand
Because
however, he had
knewhe had
a plan,
that received
which
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Kinship kept from to
had Herr
himself.
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wouldRuth
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his life to keep Millace
Russian officer to
someone was find
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loved alive Joseph
Philip’s
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mother1 AFTER had and died
READINGhethenow
from knew
drugs, for so13certain that
Philip planned the
1BeforeJ reAdIng ChApTer 5 door.
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ChApTers second 12 And one because of the
take photos
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close of
her.him, but he died, and the news
toEdek. Possible
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make answers: father was living
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photographers
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man
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Georgebut do not tell them the answers. They will
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which, since his uncle’s death, pleased because she Marquis
was the liked his of theask for a room
answers, which at are:
flat?
river,
theSydney
drugs which police. carried Edek’s boat At out into the lake.
4beMontmorency
able to check their answers when they read the
photos,
Evrémonde. but was also alarmed at the idea of his 1that they didn’t
Carton have any
is going beds.
to change theclothes
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she about
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6 1, 3, 4 and 5.
back memories of the Bastille, Charles Darnay, so that Charles can escape,fourteen
lady said that she had already sent away
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toSydney Ludwig
lose races. : Why than did you
about go
Edek. into the flat?
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place. decided to become a
oLiCeman
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George speculation. The correct answer is 1, people. After that,
die inthe hisfriends tried three houses and
5ChApTers
What
and for .?5Her
. .nine Anddays husband’s
6andwhIlE nine friendship
nights he with
READING returned Dana todenhis photographer, leave Lambourn, and marry Clare.
7but do not
Harris andtell J students this before they read the a shop, but they were all full. At last, a little boy told
Relgan.
old prison work of making shoes.
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 them that his mother could give them a room. The
three friends had to sleep in two beds and they were
never so difficult about hotels again!
ACTIVITY 2 AFTER READING
I didn’t want to go on holiday on the river because
activities answers
I knew that there was nothing to do. I don’t like
peace and quiet, I like to have fights with other dogs.
But I enjoyed the packing because I pretended that
the oranges were rats and I killed three of them.
The holiday wasn’t very interesting; I just sat in the
boat while the others rowed or towed (pulled) it
with a rope. And one day in Marlow I had a terrible
experience. I saw a cat walking across the road. It was
big and black, and I thought that I could frighten it
by running at it. This is what I usually do with cats;
I hate them. But this cat just sat down in the middle
of the road and looked at me. There was something
about it that frightened me. So I moved back with my
tail between my legs and hid behind J. Oxford was all
right, because there were a lot of dogs in the town.
I had eleven fights on the first day and fourteen on
the second. I really enjoyed myself! The food on this
holiday wasn’t very good. One night I burnt myself on
the pan when Harris was cooking eggs, and another
night they cooked (made) a strange supper with all
the bits of food they had left over. I tried to give them
a dead rat to put in the pan but they didn’t want it.
I was very happy when we went back to London and
had dinner at a restaurant, I can tell you.
ACTIVITY 3 AFTER READING
Students can complete these descriptions with more
or less detail, depending on their level of ability
and whether they are asked to do the exercise from
memory or with reference to the book. Possible
answers:
1 Harris likes to tell everybody what to do. Once,
he was in the maze at Hampton Court and he met
some people who wanted to get out. He told them
that he knew the way, so they followed him. But he
got lost and the people were very angry. He also
says that he is good at cooking eggs. But when he
tried to cook some eggs for breakfast, he burnt
himself and dropped everything. He likes to drink
whisky and one night, he drank a whole bottle. After
that, he told the others that he had fought a lot of
swans and killed them all.
2 George works in a bank, but he is always falling
asleep. He hates getting up in the morning, but
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once, he got up in the middle of the night because
his watch had stopped. He is very lazy, and he told a
story about how he made a young man and a young
woman pull his boat for him. One night he made
an excellent supper with all the bits of food that
they had left over. Another evening, he was in a pub
and he climbed up onto a chair to look at a fish in a
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glass case, but he fell and pulled the glass case down
and broke the fish!
3 J thinks that he is good at packing. But when he
packed the clothes, he forgot the boots. On the first
morning of the holiday, he woke up early and went
down to the edge of the river to splash some water
on himself, but he fell in because the branch that he
was sitting on broke. Then, when he tried to put his
shirt on, he dropped it in the water. He was very
angry, until he noticed that it was George’s shirt.
ACTIVITY 4 AFTER READING
page 1 A visit to the library
page 5 The dangers of a sea trip
page 7 Sleeping in a tent
page 12 Uncle Podger and the picture
page 20 Weather reports
page 22 Lost in the maze
page 30 Aunt Mary is lost
page 31 How girls tow a boat
page 38 Two men in one bed
page 40 When George got up early
page 48 No room in Datchet
page 74 The photograph
page 78 Hiring a boat
ACTIVITY 5 AFTER READING
Scene 1:
5, 16, 13, 1, 9, 7, 11, 3
You always need three girls to tow a boat. They
usually begin by tying themselves up in the rope. When
they finally get the rope straight, they always start by
running. This means that they pull the boat much too
fast. After a few minutes, they get tired of running and
stop suddenly. When they do that, the boat goes out
into the middle of the river and starts to turn round.
So you have to shout at them, ‘Keep the boat moving!’,
and they start pulling again. Soon they stop again,
because they want their hats or because they have seen
a cow.
Scene 2:
10, 2, 4, 15, 6, 12, 14, 8
It is almost impossible to put up a tent in the rain.
Two of you try to put it up, but it is very heavy and
falls on top of you. But then you get your side up and
begin to tie the ropes to the ground. Just then, the
other man pulls from his side and destroys all your
hard work. So you pull your side hard, and pull out all
the ropes on his side. And then he gives a violent pull
and your side comes out too. So you follow each other
round and round and shout at each other. Finally, the
tent falls down and you have to start again.
80 three men in a boat
ACTIVITY 6 AFTER READING
Open answers. Some possible answers would be:
Example: ‘I had this bad heart when I was a boy.’ The
truth: There was nothing wrong with J’s heart; he was
just lazy.
Example: ‘. . . every time I read about an illness, I

activities answers
realize that I have it too . . .’ The truth: J isn’t ill, but
he imagines that he has an illness every time that he
reads about it.
Example: ‘I am never seasick.’ The truth: J was always
seasick.
Example: ‘. . . we can take a bottle of whisky, too – for
when we are sick, you know.’ The truth: They wanted
the whisky because they liked drinking it.
Example: ‘I think that I am very good at packing.’ The
truth: J is very bad at packing.
Example: ‘If the water knows that you are waiting
for it, it will never get hot.’ The truth: Many people
believe the old proverb that ‘a watched pot never boils’
but it is only superstition.
Example: ‘He said he was very good at doing eggs.’
The truth: Harris was terrible at cooking eggs.
Example: ‘Harris said the swans had tried to pull him
and Montmorency from the boat and drown them.’
The truth: It is very unlikely that the swans were this
strong.
Example: ‘. . . the fish come and stand half out of the
water, with their mouths open for bread.’ The truth:
The fish aren’t really asking for bread.

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