The Hidden Parchment

The Hidden Parchment

Reading pictures - The Descent into the Crater

Look at the picture and answer the questions. What is the hole like? What are the three men using to descend the hole? How do you think Axel feels? What is the Professor doing?

Exit Test

Exit Test

Vocabulary - feelings

In this story there are allusions to homosexual feelings and relationships; for example, the surprising ‘confession’ that takes place in Basil’s garden. Which words best describe Basil’s…

The Artist

Subordinate clauses

Subordinate clauses ‘Because perhaps I ate a piece of meat or cheese and my stomach didn’t digest it.’ This is a. Scrooge is saying why he doesn’t believe in the Ghost, so it is a subordinate…

Context - Exit Test

What is a carol? Who wrote A Christmas Carol? When and where was he born? What do you remember of his life? What sort of novel is A Christmas Carol? A comic novel, a sentimental novel, a social novel?…

Characters (II)

Correct the false ones. She was the daughter of an Indian prince. She received a good education. She was clever, but she was not beautiful. Both her parents died when she was a little girl. She did not…

Reading

6 November Hong Kong was the last country they travelled to under British law. This was the inspector’s final opportunity to get an arrest warrant for Phileas Fogg. It was not difficult to imagine his…

Humour and mystery

A lot of the humour in Part Two comes from how the Americans behave without ‘respect’ for the Ghost. The first moment is, when Sir Simon appears as a typically terrifying ghost – but Mr Otis…