Reading pictures - The Artist

Look at the picture. Describe what you can see in the room. What are the two men doing? What are they looking at? What sort of atmosphere is there?

The Artist

Find the mistake!

Correct the words that are underlined. Listening to Part Six again. Write the namie of the speaker in the space below the words. You had a good dream. Start the wedding! But where is Mr Rochester’s…

Filmography

A Christmas Carol has been filmed for the large and small screen over a hundred times. Here is a small selection from those titles. A Christmas Carol directed by Edwin L. [...]

Subordinate clauses

Subordinate clauses ‘Because perhaps I ate a piece of meat or cheese and my stomach didn’t digest it.’ This is a. Scrooge is saying why he doesn’t believe in the Ghost, so it is a subordinate…

Context - Exit Test

What is a carol? Who wrote A Christmas Carol? When and where was he born? What do you remember of his life? What sort of novel is A Christmas Carol? A comic novel, a sentimental novel, a social novel?…

Characters (II)

Correct the false ones. She was the daughter of an Indian prince. She received a good education. She was clever, but she was not beautiful. Both her parents died when she was a little girl. She did not…

Go back to the text - Confronting Count Fosco

Confronting Count Fosco

Humour and mystery

A lot of the humour in Part Two comes from how the Americans behave without ‘respect’ for the Ghost. The first moment is, when Sir Simon appears as a typically terrifying ghost – but Mr Otis…

Key words - The Garden of Death

Pray and Forgive When people pray (pray-prayed-prayed) they ask God for help. When you forgive (forgive-forgave-forgiven) someone who has done something bad you stop being angry with them. In Part Four…