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The Canterville Ghost
Stage 2
Before Reading before reading activities (page 44) Activity 1 before reading
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Activity 2 before reading
Encourage students to speculate and to make guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will find out as they read that the ‘yes’ answers are numbers 1 and 4.
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Encourage students to speculate and to make guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will find out as they read that the answers are numbers 2, 5, 6, 8, 9.
While Reading chApter 1 while reading
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Two skeleton hands. A ghost. He asked her to marry him. He murdered his wife. The bloodstain. She wanted them to pay her more money.
After Reading Activity 1 after reading
1 butter The ghost has just fallen down the stairs. Because of the butter that the twins put on the top stair, his feet went from under him and he went crashing down to the bottom. 2 paint The ghost has just found out that Washington has cleaned the bloodstain off the library floor. He finds Virginia’s paint box and decides to make the bloodstain again using the red paints. 3 medicine The ghost has just hurried up the stairs, getting away from the Otis men, who came out when he fell to the floor with the armour. Then he gives his famous horrible laugh, and Mrs Otis comes out of the bedroom to give him some medicine because she thinks he has a pain in his stomach. 4 oil This is the first meeting between the ghost and the Otis family. The ghost is walking past Mr Otis’s bedroom, making a lot of noise with his chains. Mr Otis comes out into the passage with a bottle of Tammany’s Sun Oil, which he tells the ghost to put on his chains. 5 turnip The ghost has just been back to look at the second ghost again, very early in the morning. When he puts his arms round the ghost, its head falls off, and then he understands that the ghost is not real and is just another trick by the Otis family.
Before reAding chApter 2
Encourage students to speculate and to make guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will find out as they read that the answers are 1b and 2c. chApters 2 And 3 while reading
The correct order is: 4, 1, 8, 3, 7, 5, 2, 6 chApter 4 while reading
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The ghost used oil on his chains because he didn’t want anyone to hear him. 2+9 One night the twins put butter on the top stair, which made the ghost fall down the stairs to the bottom. 3+6 When the ghost went into the twins’ room, a jug of water fell down on him and he got very wet. 4+10 The ghost went down just to look at the bloodstain, but the twins and Washington were waiting for him. 5+8 The ghost planned to do the Horseman of Death, but in the end he was too frightened to leave his room. chApter 5 while reading
1 Why . . .? Because she wanted to change her skirt before anyone saw the hole in it. 2 What . . .? Nothing. / He was sitting near the window, watching the leaves dancing in the wind.
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3 Who . . .? His wife’s brothers. 4 Why . . .? Because the ghost used her paints to make it, and only left her dark blue and white. 5 Who . . .? The ghost. 6 What . . .? He couldn’t sleep. 7 Where . . .? He wanted to go to the Garden of Death. 8 What . . .? She could pray for him, and cry for him. 9 Where . . .? Into a great black hole in the wall.
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1 The sentence is: ‘I have not slept for three hundred years.’ 2 The ghost said it to Virginia. 3 Virginia prayed for the ghost to have peace, and then she and her family took Sir Simon’s skeleton to the Garden of Death. Activity 3
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The picture goes on page 23. 1 The twins’ bedroom. 2 The jug is going to fall off the door, and the water will go all over the ghost. 3 He will feel wet, angry, and unhappy, and the next day he will be ill with a bad cold. Lines taken from the story would make suitable captions, for example: • A heavy jug of water fell right down on him. Or students might like to think of something more imaginative, for example: • A horrible surprise was waiting for the ghost. • The twins waited happily for the ghost to come into the room.
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Activity 4
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The correct order is: 5, 9, 2, 7, 4, 1, 3, 8, 6 Sir Simon murdered his wife in the library in 1575. Then, in 1584, he suddenly disappeared. His wife’s brothers locked him in a room without food or water, and he died there. After that, his ghost began to appear in Canterville Chase. For 300 years he was the best ghost in the country. When the Otis family arrived, the ghost had a difficult time. Then Virginia met the ghost, and prayed for him to die. The family found Sir Simon’s skeleton, and put it in the ground in the ‘Garden of Death’. After that, Sir Simon’s ghost never appeared again. Activity 5
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