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2 CiUII Read the text and listen. 8 •UiiUOH'ii t @dl Usten to the next part of
the story. Complete the sentences.
3 Read the text again. Answer the questions.
London was _ _ _ _ miles away.
1 Who served the boys and what did he wear?
2 Oliver decided to go to London because he could
2 How were the boys feeling when they made
find _ _ _ _ there.
theirplan?
3 How did Oliver feel when he spoke to the master? 3 He only had one _ _ ___, some socks, a

'4 Who ls Mr Bumble and what did he do?

piece of ____ and a penny.
5 Where did Oliver spend the night? -4 When he slept in the field, he felt _ _ ___,
_ _ ___, _ _ _ _ andalone.
.._ READ BETWEEN THE LINES Answer the questions. s His _ _ _ _ hurt
Why do you think the boys' bowls shone? 6 ln a town near London, he met a _ _ __
2 What do you learn about the boys' lives? He shared some _ _ _ _ with Oliver.
3 How did the master and directors react to Oliver's
request and why?
WRITI NG Character analysis
5 Complete the sentences with the 9 i\iaiim+i Write a character analysis of
correct words from the glossary in the correct
Oliver in 80-100 words.
form.
Think about the character's personality. Look
1 Despite improvements in agriculture and for dues in the text about how he speaks,
technology, thousands of people still died of moves, feels and thinks.
_ _ _ _ in England in the 1840s.
2 How do other characters react to him?
2 When their parents died, brothers and sisters
3 What is your character's role in the text? ls he
would look after their younger relatives to stop a protagonist or a secondary character?
them from being put in an _ _ __
-4 Try to include short quotes from the original
3 ln 1833, children as young as nine worked for text in your analysis to illustrate your ideas.
eight hours a day in factories making items such as lnclude a wide range of adjectives.
5 When you have finished your character
-4Meals in workhouses were poor. Although people analysis read it again. Check your spelling,
living in them often experienced _ _ ___, at grammar and punctuation. Swap your
least they didn't starve. character analysis with a partner and assess
5 _ _ _ _ weren't just poor children who each other's work.
worked in factories. Children from wealthy families
could become doctors and lawyers in this way.
6 Families were _ _ _ _ to avoid going into the CHARACTERISATION
workhouse. ln the workhouse, children as young as
seven were separated from their parents and life Charles Dickens is famous for creating many
memorable characters - some good and some bad.
was hard.
He liked to make his readers laugh or cry so many of
6 Underline five words in the text that are new to his characters are comic or tragic. He used a lot of
you. Look them up ln a dictionary and then write details and strong adjectives to create his characters.
each of them ln a sentence. He also described the places where they lived or
worked to make them seem more real. Among his
7 Work in pairs. Sam is a new boy at the most famous characters are: Oliver Twist and Nancy
orphanage. Oliver explains what the food is like. (Oliver Twist), Mr Scrooge (A Christmas Carol),
Student A is Oliver, Student Bis Sam. Read the David Copperfield (David Copperfield) and Miss
beginning of the conversation and then continue Haversham (Great Expectations).
with your own ideas.
10 Look at the picture of Oliver and the other
OLIVER You're new! What's your name? orphans on page 1. What is their life like?
SAM Sam. Sam Todd. lt's my first day here. Describe their appearance and the workhouse.

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