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Do You Know This Story?
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Read the following text in its entirety carefully: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/landlady_text.pdf
Once you have read the text: Answer the following questions. Quote from the text if necessary.
a. When do the events happen? (Season, moment of the day).
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b. Where does the scene take place? (Name of the town, details about the street).
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c. Who is the main character present? (Name, age, clothes, job)
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d. What is the story about? (sum it up in one sentence)
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e. What happened suddenly?
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f. Quote 6 expressions (from line 38 down to line 48) which make Billy think that the boarding house “would be a pretty decent house to stay in”.
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g. Something strange seems to be happening so far…Quote 3 examples which are puzzling for Billy and the reader.
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Make a list of the elements that give a negative impression and foreshadow the events?
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The cliff-hanging ending. Is there any explicit denouement? What can readers conclude?
Once you have read the text: Answer the following questions. Quote from the text if necessary.
a. When do the events happen? (Season, moment of the day).
……………………………………………………………………………………..............................
b. Where does the scene take place? (Name of the town, details about the street).
……………………………………………………………………………………..............................
c. Who is the main character present? (Name, age, clothes, job)
……………………………………………………………………………………..............................
d. What is the story about? (sum it up in one sentence)
……………………………………………………………………………………..............................
e. What happened suddenly?
……………………………………………………………………………………..............................
f. Quote 6 expressions (from line 38 down to line 48) which make Billy think that the boarding house “would be a pretty decent house to stay in”.
……………………………………………………………………………………..............................
g. Something strange seems to be happening so far…Quote 3 examples which are puzzling for Billy and the reader.
……………………………………………………………………………………..............................
Make a list of the elements that give a negative impression and foreshadow the events?
.................................................................
The cliff-hanging ending. Is there any explicit denouement? What can readers conclude?
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answer to A: The events happen at nine o clock in the evening in Bath, however the story starts in the afternoon, on a train that's going past Swindon. I know this because the first two sentences describe the time of day and location of the scene. "Billy Weaver had travelled down from London on the slow afternoon train, with a change at Swindon on the way, and by the...
11:47 Mon 17th Dec 2018
answer to A:
The events happen at nine o clock in the evening in Bath, however the story starts in the afternoon, on a train that's going past Swindon.
I know this because the first two sentences describe the time of day and location of the scene.
"Billy Weaver had travelled down from
London on the slow afternoon train, with a
change at Swindon on the way, and by the
time he got to Bath it was about nine
o’clock in the evening"
The events happen at nine o clock in the evening in Bath, however the story starts in the afternoon, on a train that's going past Swindon.
I know this because the first two sentences describe the time of day and location of the scene.
"Billy Weaver had travelled down from
London on the slow afternoon train, with a
change at Swindon on the way, and by the
time he got to Bath it was about nine
o’clock in the evening"