Reflex

The
A Silver
Tale Sword
of Two Cities Stage 4

Before Reading 6ChApTers

1 Edek
How . . .?6Philip
Jacques had
second on
To
run
Five,
And 8 7
away
Daylight,
didn’t
whIlE
whIlE
from
about Gaspard’s
win
READING

and third
either race. He came in
READING
the Warthe
dead
on camp.
body
Chainmail. after the

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Before reading activities (page 76) 27 When What .the
soldiers .?fight
. had Hekilledat the
learnt him. fieldGeorge
that kitchenhad finished,
stopped Ruthat
2 was Lanceholding
Madame Kinship’s Edek’s
Defarge, househand.
about forthe Revolution.
a drink on his way home.
ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING 38 Jan Whydid
John not
.Barsad,
. .? believe
Because Edek’s
aboutYaxleywhether story
was Ernestabout
home hiding
Defarge
from isunder
Hong called
1 FParis
2 Tand3 London.T 44 T
F F 5T 6F 7F aJacques
train.
Kong justorthree not. weeks after George’s death.
2 In the Bastille prison in Paris. 49 ErnestIn Berlin
What . .?theIt children
. Defarge, about
helped thestayed
the inand
attack
wives anon oldthe cinema.
children Bastille.
of dead
ACTIVITY 2 BEFORE READING
3 Lucie. 5 Jarvis and was
Jan helping
Lorry,
injured about
jockeys.some Jerryother boys to who
Cruncher, stealwasfoodgoingfrom
Encourage students to speculate and to make
4 ‘Jacques’. thetake
to trains. care of Mr Lorry on his trip to Paris.
guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will
5 ‘A terrible machine of death’, with a sharp knife that 6Before The
Charles reAdIng ChApTer 10
American
Darnay,Captain about the toldMarquis
Jan he had been stealing
of Evrémonde
find find
will out as outthey readread
as they that that
the answers
the ‘yes’ are 1a, 1c
answers are Encourage
cuts off people’s heads. American food sent to feed the refugees.make
(himself). students to speculate and to
(but for the
numbers 1, 2, Injured
and 4.Jockeys Fund, not himself), 2a, guesses, but
7 Jan went
Charles todo
Darnay, not
prison tell
because
about them
beingthe the answer.himself,
children
a prisoner They have
didn’t will
2b, 2d. 2 BEFORE READING find out as they read that the answer
many years in the2.
is number
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY 3 BEFORE READING enough money to pay
and remembering the 200 marks.
Dr Manette’s
Encourage students to speculate and to make
The Second World War began in 1939 and ended Bastille. 10 To 13 whIlE READING
ChApTers
While Reading
guesses but do not tell them the answers. They will
in 1945. The children lived in Poland, in eastern
find out as they read that the only ‘yes’ answers are
ChApTers 9 And 10 whIlE READING
11ChApTers Lord White,
A Bavarian to Philip,
farmer,
8 And to the
9 whIlE
about the photographs
children,
READING about a potato that
Europe. To get to Switzerland, they had to go west to showed Dana and Ivor den Relgan as lovers.
numbers
ChApTersand
5 1andTo
6.
5 whIlE
1 F thatDrJan had thrown
Manette was safe at him.
in Paris.
Germany, then to Switzerland.
south READING
1ACTIVITY
Because 3heBEFORE didn’t READING
like cheating, and he knew that he 22 F Harold,
FrauLucie
Wolff,towasPhilip,
toveryher about
afraidIvor
husband, den Relgan
about
of Madame Edek. no longer
Defarge.
3 T being in the Jockey Club.
Jan, to the farmer, about the fact that the farmer’s
Inhad
While Readinga very
France in thegood18th chance of winning
century that day.
rich noblemen owned
2most
He ofdrove off the road and into a tree, probably 43 F Elgin
sonsMost Yaxley,
had been
of toGerman
the Philip, about
prisoners werePhilip
soldiers, andto
sent asking
sothe him for
enemies who
Guillotine.
the land, and the poor had nothing. They had more money for the Injured Jockeys Fund.
because he went to sleep whiletoheeat,wasanddriving. 5 T had fought against Polish people.
hard lives, did not have enough hated the 446 F Mrs Jackson
ChApTers 1 To 3 whIlE READING
3King
Because he was interested to find out why George FrauHe Wolff,
agreed to(Philip’s
thehelp,
to neighbour),
children,
if his about tonot
life wastheir Philip,
mother.
put in about
1 How and . . his
.? Henoblemen.
knocked down a guard with a catapult the man from the water company who came to hide
had kept a box of his worst mistakes. 5 danger.
Edek, to the Burgomaster, about Jan, trying to
and stole his uniform. Then he walked out of the 7 F check
the Mr Philip’s
factLorrythat Jan pipes.
wascouldn’t
planningspeak to leaveGerman.
Paris the next day.
4 By giving him a lot of money.
While Reading
prison with the other guards.
5 Because it showed that they had met each other
56 IvorThe Burgomaster, to the farmer, about theGeorge
den Relgan, to Philip, about burning children,
2 How . . .? By hiding in a luggage lift. Millace’s
ChApTers
who had to house.
10 And 11 whIlE READING
be sent home like other refugees.
before O’Tree shot Yaxley’s horses. 671+12Clare,2+16to the 3+15about
Philip, 4+10 his 5+17
injuries, 6+14 7+18 8+11
3ChApTers
Why . . .? 1BecauseTo 3 whIlE a prisoner
READING
6 He was not a serious or responsible person.
had escaped. Edek, to Burgomaster, about hiswhich fathershe Joseph
14 Jerry . . .? The Nazis took her away and sent her to
What Cruncher 9+13realized had been caused by a beating, not a fall
7 Because nobody knew that he had them. Balicki.
Darnay aappeared before the Tribunal a second time,
Germany.
2 Jarvis Lorry
8 Dana knew him because she got drugs from him, 8 from
The farmer,horse.to the children, about using his canoes
because
7 Dana he was accused by three citizens. When sheDr
35 Monsieur
Why . . .? BecauseDefarge on the night his wife was taken
and Ivor hit him because he wanted him to stay away to get denawayRelgan,
by river. to Philip, about the list had
away, someone
4 Madame Defarge shot at the car, and one of the Nazi Manette
writtenheard that heof
on a packet was one of the
cigarettes foraccusers, he
George Millace.
from Dana. spoke
The angrily
8ChApTers to
Tothe
police11inspector, 13 Tribunal.
whIlEto Philip,Butabout
READING Defarge theexplained
hydrogen
soldiersfather,
5 Lucie’s was hitDr inManette
the arm.
9 Because he thought they could put Philip’s life in 1that She helethad
sulphide gogas of in
found herPhilip’s
apaddle
paperwater suddenly,
written byand
filter Dr henearly
thatManettefell backin
killed
What . . Darnay
6 Charles .? To tell them that he was going to
danger. theinto the
Bastille,
Jeremy. water.
and he read it aloud to the Tribunal. The
Switzerland
7 Sydney Carton to find their mother, and that they
should
8Before
Miss Prossfollow him
reAdIng as soon as
ChApTer 6 they could.
2paper
Theytold found theirofpaddle
a story again, because
the Evrémonde brothers, the river
who had
Before reAdIng ChApTer 14
7Encourage
Where . . .? students
To the placeto speculate
where the and to make
trains slow down. carried
caused theitdeaths
down to of them.
four members of a family. The
ChApTers 4 And 5 whIlE READING
guesses but do not tell them the answers. They will 3Encourage
Jan had
people were students
left at theto
soitangry speculate
toWolffs’
hear offarm, and
these nextto to
crimes makethe
thatphoto
they
1ChApTers
Who . . .? 4The And child of a READING
5 whIlE man called Gaspard. guesses,
saidof Darnay but do not tell them
Rudolf. must go to the Guillotine the next the answers. Theyday.will
find out as they read that the answers are 1c and
12 THow . . .? By holding on under the Marquis’s coach.
2b. 4find out
the as
Because
After shethey
trial, read Carton
thought
Sydney that
Edekthe was answers
went so to
ill the
thatare he1cmight
Defarges’and
23 FHow The . . children
.? He feltstole theyfood
werefrom
hard,their
cruelenemies,
landowners.but 2b. die beforewhere
wine-shop, they got to Switzerland.
he heard Madame Defarge talking
never
ChApTers from
6 To 9their
whIlEown people.
4 What . . .? He was killed by Gaspard (‘Jacques’),
READING 5ChApTers
Because
about he14wanted
her family. To Madame to go Defarge
16 whIlE back to did
READING the notWolffs’
wantfarm to
31 T Why . . .? Because
who pushed a knifehethrough
didn’t want to destroy
his heart while he was stopand get
the the
killing silver
until sword.
all the Evrémonde
On the diazo film and paper Philip discovered a list family were
4 T Daylight’s
sleeping. enthusiasm for racing. 6of Because
dead.names, Jan screamed
Dr Manette
dates, could
and drugs, at him
do andand
nothing kicked
to
a letter help him
Darnay
written when
by
52 F How
Who Ruth
.. .. .? HisBronia
.?and mother
Charles hadinand
lived
Darnay, left
thehim
Sydneyto stay
forest in
Carton.with
summer, Joe wouldn’t
because
George his mind
Millace take
tohad him
Lance north
returned
Kinship. Boding.
to the past. Carton,
Because of this
Samantha
and in several
Warsaw times
in when
winter. he
6 What . . .? To remember that there was a man who was a child. 7letter,
Because
however, he knew he had
had a that received
plan, whichletters
Lance he kept
Kinship from Herr
killedWolff
to himself.
had George. and
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63 F Why Ruth
would . .give Because
.?asked the George
his life to keep Millace
Russian officer to
someone was
she going
find her to
loved alive Joseph
Philip’s Balicki, and he now knew
mother had died from drugs, so Philip planned for certain that the
Before reAdIng ChApTers 12 And 13
take photos
andbrother
close of
her.him, but he died, and the news
toEdek. to children’s
make father was living in Switzerland.
give speculation.
him the names
7 F photographers
WhatJan. .hated.? Heall were
told allManette
soldiers.
Dr busy. his real name, Open Lance Kinship
answers. Encourage Doofnot people
give
8who Thesold
heavy drugs.rainHe turned
would thethen
streamgive into
these a names
fast-movingto
84 T How . . .? He was
which, since his uncle’s death,pleased because she Marquis
was the liked his of the answers, which are:
the river,
drugs which
police. carried Edek’s boat out into the lake.
photos,
Evrémonde. but was also alarmed at the idea of his 1 Sydney Carton is going to change clothes with
9 Victor
BecauseBriggsshe thought
told thathe hewould
cared more about him his
Before reAdIng ChApTer 6
8 hobby
What . becoming
. .? It brought h is work.
back memories of the Bastille, Charles Darnay, soPhilip
that Charles canstop asking
escape, and
dog
toSydney Ludwig
lose races. than about Edek.
Encourage speculation. The correct answer is 1,
5 What
and for .? Her
. .nine dayshusband’s
and ninefriendship
nights he with
returnedDana toden
his willHowever,
die in his Philipplace. decided to become a
but do not tell students this before they read the photographer, leave Lambourn, and marry Clare.
Relgan.
old prison work of making shoes.
chapter. Let them check their guesses as they read.

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Cities
 2 Lucie, her father, little Lucie, Charles and Mr Lorry. ACTIVITY 4 AFTER READING

3 Madame Defarge will be killed by Miss Pross. We 1+8 It was the best of times, it was the worst of
do not know what will happen to Ernest Defarge. times.
4 Sydney Carton and the others who will be sent to 2+10 It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of
the Guillotine. sadness.
3+9 It was the season of light, it was the season of
activities answers

After Reading darkness.

4+6 It was a strange message, and a stranger answer.
5+7 It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have
ACTIVITY 1 AFTER READING
ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to,
Lucie Manette – the doctor’s daughter
than I have ever known.
Jarvis Lorry – an old friend of the Manettes
Madame Defarge – a good knitter ACTIVITY 5 AFTER READING
Dr Manette – once a prisoner in the Bastille Possible answers:
Charles Darnay – the Marquis’s nephew 1 Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay looked very
Sydney Carton – a lawyer similar, but their characters were very different.
John Barsad – Miss Pross’s brother 2 Life in France was easy for the rich, but it was hard
Gaspard – the killer of the Marquis for the poor.
3 When the Marquis killed a child, the child’s father
ACTIVITY 2 AFTER READING
killed the Marquis.
PaRis: Ernest Defarge, Dr Manette, Gaspard, the
4 The Revolution killed those who were guilty; it also
Marquis of Evrémonde, Gabelle
killed those who were innocent.
London: Jarvis Lorry, Sydney Carton, Lucie Manette,
5 Miss Pross was a friend of Dr Manette’s family, but
Jerry Cruncher, Mr Stryver
Madame Defarge was their enemy.
ACTIVITY 3 AFTER READING 6 Charles Darnay loved Lucie and lived, but Sydney
5 daRnay: Dr Manette, we said I would tell you my Carton loved Lucie and died.
real name on the morning of my marriage – you
ACTIVITY 6 AFTER READING
remember?
My dearest wife,
3 dR Manette: Yes, I remember. But must you tell
I am leaving for France very soon. I must go, because
me?
my old servant Gabelle needs my help. When you read
10 daRnay: Yes, I must. I cannot marry your daughter
this, I shall be on my way. I did not tell you before,
without telling you who I really am.
because I knew you would worry. I promise I will write
1 dR Manette: Very well, then. Who are you?
to you when I arrive, to let you know I am safe.
8 daRnay: My name is Evrémonde, and since
Take care of yourself and little Lucie, and your father.
my uncle died, I have been the Marquis of
Your loving husband, Charles
Evrémonde. But I am not proud of this name,
and I will never use it. ACTIVITIes 7 And 8 AFTER READING
13 dR Manette: Evrémonde! Open answers.
2 daRnay: Dr Manette, you look so pale! Does this
name hold memories for you?
9 dR Manette: No, no. No, not at all. I have never
heard the name before.
4 daRnay: Are you sure, Dr Manette? When I spoke
the name, I thought you had seen a ghost.
7 dR Manette: There are many ghosts in my past,
Charles. But I am quite sure. The name means
nothing to me.
12 daRnay: Then may I tell Lucie, too?
14 dR Manette: No! Promise me, Charles, that you
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will never tell Lucie, or anyone else, that your

name is Evrémonde.
11 daRnay: Yes, I promise. But why must it be a
secret?
6 dR Manette: Some things are best kept secret,
that’s all. But come, we must go – my daughter is
waiting.

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