Please select a subject first
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Thinking about the Text
Answer these question.
I said it with bullets.”
(i) Who says this?
(ii) What does it mean?
(iii) Is it the truth? What is the speaker’s reason for saying this?
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Thinking about the Text
Answer these question.
What is Gerrard’s profession? Quote the parts of the play that support your answer.
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Thinking about the Text
Answer these question.
You’ll soon stop being smart.”
(i) Who says this?
(ii) Why does the speaker say it?
(iii) What according to the speaker will stop Gerrard from being smart?
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Thinking about the Text
Answer these question.
They can’t hang me twice.”
(i) Who says this?
(ii) Why does the speaker say it?
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Thinking about the Text
Answer these question.
A mystery I propose to explain.” What is the mystery the speaker proposes to explain?
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Thinking about the Text
Answer these question.
This is your big surprise.”
(i) Where has this been said in the play?
(ii) What is the surprise?
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Thinking about the Language
Consult your dictionary and choose the correct word from the pairs given in brackets.
The (site, cite) of the accident was (ghastly/ghostly).
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Thinking about the Language
Consult your dictionary and choose the correct word from the pairs given in brackets.
Our college (principle/principal) is very strict.
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Thinking about the Language
Consult your dictionary and choose the correct word from the pairs given in brackets.
I studied (continuously/continually) for eight hours.
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Thinking about the Language
Consult your dictionary and choose the correct word from the pairs given in brackets.
The fog had an adverse (affect/effect) on the traffic.
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Thinking about the Language
Consult your dictionary and choose the correct word from the pairs given in brackets.
Cezanne, the famous French painter, was a brilliant (artist/artiste).
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Thinking about the Language
Consult your dictionary and choose the correct word from the pairs given in brackets.
The book that you gave me yesterday is an extraordinary (collage/college) of science
fiction and mystery.
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Thinking about the Language
Consult your dictionary and choose the correct word from the pairs given in brackets.
Our school will (host/hoist) an exhibition on cruelty to animals and wildlife
conservation.
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Thinking about the Language
Consult your dictionary and choose the correct word from the pairs given in brackets.
Screw the lid tightly onto the top of the bottle and (shake/shape) well before using the contents.
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Irony is when we say one thing but mean another, usually the opposite of what we say. When someone makes a mistake and you say, Oh! That was clever!” that is irony. You’re saying ‘clever’ to mean ‘not clever’.
Expressions we often use in an ironic fashion are:
• Oh, wasn’t that clever!/Oh that was clever!
• You have been a great help, I must say!
• You’ve got yourself into a lovely mess, haven’t you?
• Oh, very funny!/How funny!
We use a slightly different tone of voice when we use these words ironically.
Read the play carefully and find the words and expressions Gerrard uses in an ironic way.
Then say what these expressions really mean. Two examples have been given below.
Write down three such expressions along with what they really mean.
| What the author says | What he means |
| Why, this is a surprise, Mr – er – |
He pretends that the intruder is a social visitor whom he is welcoming. In this way he hides his fear. |
| At last a sympathetic audience! | He pretends that the intruder wants to listen to him, whereas actually the intruder wants to find out information for his own use. |
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Thinking about the poem
Where does the traveller find himself? What problem does he face?
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Thinking about the poem
Discuss what these phrases mean to you.
(i) a yellow wood
(ii) it was grassy and wanted wear
(iii) the passing there
(iv) leaves no step had trodden black
(v) how way leads on to way
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Thinking about the poem
Is there any difference between the two roads as the poet describes them
(i) in stanzas two and three?
(ii) in the last two lines of the poem?
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Thinking about the poem
What do you think the last two lines of the poem mean? (Looking back, does the poet regret his choice or accept it?)
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Have you ever had to make a difficult choice (or do you think you will have difficult choices to make)? How will you make the choice (for what reasons)?
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