What do you know about him?

1.

What do you know
about him?
What would you like to know
about him?
Profession
Age
City
Interesting facts
Biography

2.

Before reading learn new words.
рядом,
alongside
около
искренне
earnestly
напильник
file
просить,
to plead
умолять
to
ворчать
growl
грубый
coarse
(ткань)
столкнуться
to confront
хромать
to lame
облизывать
to lick
смотреть
to glare
свирепо
хоронить
to bury
невзгоды
hardship
крапива
nettle
бормотать
to mutter
хромать,
to limp
ковылять
стучать
to chatter
зубами
крыльцо
porch
encounter
встреча
должник
debtor
прожорливый
ravenous
to
хватать
seize
лоскут
rag
осужденный
convict
влияние,
impact
воздействие
influence
влияние
дрожать
to shiver
от холода
основательный
profound

3.

Before reading learn new words.
steeple
колокольня
toпокрывать
smother in
tear
рвать,toразрывать
to hold
noise
бытьyour
тише
to soak
промокать
to
point to
указывать
timidly
робко,
запуганно
toбыть
haveсклонным
half a mind
to ч-л
сделать
tombstone
надгробие
to speakголос
up
повышать
наклонять,
tilt
опрокидывать
to
sting
жалить
to tremble
трястись,
дрожать
тугой,tight
плотный

4.

Look at the picture. Where are the characters? What do you think will
1. Prison
happen
in thechain
extract? Read to find out.
2. Hard, greyish black stone used for making
tools
Text 1
The characters are in a graveyard. I
3. Wild
roses
with
think
the
manlong,
will prickly
ask thestems
boy to
4. Area
to athreaten
stone to hurt him if
Text 2
helpclose
him and
5. Trees with their
he branches
doesn’t. cut back
Text 3
6. Used when referring to sb who lived or
worked somewhere recently
Text 4
7. A village or part of a town with its own
church & priest
8. Sb who makes things out of metal
NOTE
9. Food
graveyard

5.

Read the extract again carefully and complete the gaps with a suitable
word or short phrase. Compare with a partner.
cut
throat
Text 1
Pip’s pocket
Text 2
cheeks
Text 3
parents
his sister
Text 4
a file and wittles (food)

6.

Listen and read the text again. Match the highlighted words/phrases
in the extract with their meanings below:
Covered completely
Grabbed
Walked with difficulty
Shyly
Shaking with fear or cold
Very hungrily
Moved so that one end/side
is higher than the other
• Upside down
• Started at angrily
• Rough
head
smothered
timidly
limped
seized
tilted
over heals
ravenously
trembling
coarse
glared

7.

Match the words in bold to their meanings. Choose some and mime or
draw their meaning.
soaked
fearful
chattered
shivered
lamed
pointed
steeple
stung
porch
cheeks
tombstone
lay
pleaded
rag
Piece of stone on a grave that
Soft
parts
of
face
on
either
Made
a injured
low
threatening
noise
Knock
Caused
together
sudden
sharp
repeatedly
pain
Covered
are
at
the
entrance
With
legs
or
feet
Is
situated
Pointed
structure
on
a
church
says
who
is
buried
Begged
intensely
Indicated
with
a
finger
Frightening
Shook
Extremely
because
of
wet
cold/fear
Piece
Ripped
of
old cloth
side
of
like
amouth
dog
(usually
of
by
cold/fear
insects)
to
a
building
thatbecause
make
it
difficult
underneath to walk
growled
torn

8.

Match the words in bold to their meanings. Choose some and mime or
draw their meaning.
muttered
file
threatening
liver
tighter
Spoke
soof
that
other
people
Organ
the
body
that
Stating
an
intention
to
Tool
for
making
wood
or
More firmly
find itcleans
difficult
to hear
blood
hurt/harm
metal
objects
smoother

9.

Read the description of the convict again in the first section of the
extract and make notes about how he:
walked
looked
spoke
acted
shivered
teeth
chattered
glared
lamed
limped
eyes looked
most powerfully
into mine
ate ravenously
a terrible
voice
growled
muttered
Answer
licking his lips
with a threatening
shake of the head
tilted me back as far
as he could hold me
he tilted me again

10.

Close your eyes and imagine you are Pip sitting on the tombstone. What
can you see, smell, hear, touch? How do you feel?

11.

Explain the meaning of the underlined sections of the text in your own
words.
Hold your noise!
Be quiet!

12.

Explain the meaning of the underlined sections of the text in your own
words.
Licking his lips
Moving his tongue around
the outside of his mouth.

13.

Explain the meaning of the underlined sections of the text in your own
words.
I’ve half a mind to …
I’m considering (doing sth,
usually as a threat to a
naughty child)

14.

How does the convict’s way of speaking differ from Pip’s? Underline
the parts of the convict’s speech that show us this and say what they
mean. Why do you think Dickens did this?
Dickens was trying to show the different
Convict’s
The
convict
speaks
with slang
backgrounds
of speech:
the tworudely
characters
and the
expressions
poor grammar,
Pip
different
classand
of each
character.while
(Magwich
Show
us
where
you
Show
me
you
Who
dowhere
you
live
speaks
politely
andclass
formally
with
correct
– lower
working
criminal;
Pip –
livelive with
Who d’ye
with – live
assuming I
grammar.
educated
middle class)
– supposin’ I kindly
generously allow
Pint
out
thewhich
placeI
Point
to to
the
place
let
you
live,
you
live,
han’t made up my
something which I
What
cheeks
What
cheeks
mindfat
about?
stillfat
have
not
you ha’ got
youdecided
have got
And
you know
what
I could
eat ‘em
wittles is?
do eat
you them
know
IAnd
could
what wittles are?
You
‘emhere!
both
Nowbring
lookee
to me
Bring
themwell
both to
Listen
me

15.

In pairs, take the roles of Pip and the convict and act out their
dialogue in the graveyard. Change the ending.

16.

17.

Fill in: pleaded, chattered, muttered, soaked, shiver, pointed,
tombstone, ravenously, steeple, porch.
chattered
tombstone
Workbook
muttered
steeple
soaked
pleaded
shiver
pointed
porch
ravenously

18.

Fill in: in, by, about, of, at, to.
at
by
in
to
of
about

19.

Match the verbs with their meanings. Then, complete the sentences
using the verbs in the correct form.
g
a
h
b
e
c
f
d

20.

Match the verbs with their meanings. Then, complete the sentences
using the verbs in the correct form.
growled
smothered
licked
seized
trembled
glared
tilted
limping

21.

Tick the parts of the body you can see in the picture.

22.

Complete the sentences with the correct word derived from the word
in bold.
expectations
helplessness
earnestly
fearful/fearless
powerfully
threatening