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SB p 160 ex 1, 2
WS 39
Unit test 12
WB p 70, 71 Listening and reading
WB p 72 ex 2, 3
WB p 73 Use of English
WB p 74 ex 1, 2, 3

WS 40 cloze test
SB p 151 ex 5
SB p 157 ex 4

SB p 138, 139 Reading
SB p 148 all page
WS 38 ex 25
WS 37 ex 20
WB p 67 Use of English
WB p 75 Grammar revision

WB p 64 Listening
WB p 65 ex 1, 4
WB p 68
WS 37 (Buying a new bike)

The Curious... WS 10 key

Read from chapter 229 to the end (page 242 to the end) and answer the following questions.

1. Where does Christopher live by the end of the story?

He lives with his mother in a small, unpleasant apartment, but stays with his father after school and he also spends some nights there.

2. What happens to Toby? And who is Sandy?

Toby dies of old age and Christopher has to bury him in the soil in a plastic pot for plants because Mother’s house doesn’t have a garden. However, he is given a golden retriever by his father. He names her Sandy.

3. How has Christopher’s relationship with his father changed?

He begins to trust him again, but their relationship at the end of the story is more distant than at the beginning. However, they plant a vegetable patch, which serves as a metaphor for how they relationship will eventually grow.

4. What are Christopher’s achievements by the end of the story?

Solving the mystery of Wellington’s murder

Going to London on his own and finding his mother

Acting bravely when he felt afraid

Getting an A in his A-level math test

Writing his book

5. What are his plans?

Living on his own

Taking an A-level in further maths and in physics

Attending university in another town

Living in a flat with a garden, a proper toilet, Sandy, his books and his computer

Becoming a scientist

The Curious... WS 9 key

 Read from chapter 199 to chapter 227 (page 203 to page 241). Compare what you have read and the following paragraphs, which contain some false information about the plot. Spot the twelve mistakes.

The train continues travelling, and Christopher attempts to judge the distance he has gone by noting the amount of time between stops. When the train stops again, Christopher leaves his hiding place. He sees a policeman on the platform in the next car and gets off the train. The station he enters overwhelms him again. He imagines his yellow red line and follows it to the far end of the station. A man tells him a policeman is looking for him, but Christopher keeps on walking. The huge number of signs makes all of them incomprehensible to Christopher, but he manages to ask the way to Mother’s address. A man woman she tells him to take the subway to Willesden Junction or Willesden Green.

In the subway, he hides behind a big sign in a photo booth. Through its curtain he watches people purchase tickets and enter the subway station. He gets up the courage to go and buy his own ticket from a machine, then follows the signs to his platform. People begin to fill the station and Christopher starts to feel very sick. Trains keep pulling in and leaving, but Christopher can only sit paralyzed on the floor bench, wishing he were at home but unable to go there.

       

Christopher sits in a trance for six five hours on the platform before realizing that Toby has run away. Christopher spots Toby between the tracks among some other mice and climbs onto the tracks to get him. The sound of an approaching train grows louder as a man runs forward to haul Christopher, clutching Toby, back onto the platform. The man shouts at Christopher for being so reckless, and a lady approaches to ask if there is anything she can do to help. Christopher tells her to back away, revealing that he has his Swiss Army knife. The man and lady both leave Christopher alone and leave the station get on the next train.

After five eight more trains pass by Christopher decides to board. Christopher stays on the train until Willesden Junction, where he gets off. He approaches a shop and asks for directions. The shopkeeper sells him a book called London AZ Street Atlas and Index for £3.95 £2.95. He uses the atlas to get to Mother’s address, but no one answers when Christopher rings the bell. He sits down to wait. At 11:32 p.m. he hears Mother’s voice as she approaches the apartment. Mother tries to hug Christopher but he pushes her away. She makes a fan out of her fingers instead and they touch hands. Mr. Shears is with Mother. Christopher tells her about his amazing frightening journey from Swindon.

Inside the flat Mother draws Christopher a bath. She sits down next to the bath and asks why Christopher never phoned her wrote to her. Christopher explains that Father kept all the letters hidden in his closet and said Mother was dead. A policeman comes to the door of the apartment and says Father reported Christopher as a runaway. The policeman asks Christopher if he wants to go back to Father or if he prefers to stay with Mother. Christopher chooses to stay with Mother, and the policeman leaves. Exhausted, Christopher goes to bed He wakes up to the sound of Father shouting in the living room at 2:31 a.m. Mother, Mr. Shears, and Father have a heated argument. Father bursts through the door of the spare room to find Christopher, who has his Swiss Army knife open and ready. Father cries and apologizes and spreads his fingers in a fan, but Christopher refuses to touch him. Two policemen The policeman comes back and escorts Father from the flat. Christopher goes back to sleep.