The text and beyond
Q Comprehension check
What happened in Chapter Eight? Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false ones.
T F
1 Phoebe and Holgrave didn't move from the room _ —
because they heard a noise. —> '—>
2 Clifford did not murder Judge Pyncheon.
3 Judge Pyncheon was guilty of the murder of his — — uncle but blamed Clifford for it. '—I '—*
4 Hepzibah and Clifford inherited the judge's country — — house. '—' '—'
5 Clifford had forgotten about the secret mechanism _ —
behind the portrait. '—' '—'
6 The map and land deed had been removed from the _ _
hiding place. '—' '—'
7 The map and land deed was worth a lot of money for _ _
Hepzibah and Clifford. '—' '—>
8 Matthew Maule was one of Holgrave's ancestors.
Q Vocabulary
Solve the riddle and complete the sentence.
1 My first is in PARK but not in DARK....................................................
2 My second is in HOT but not in HAT....................................................
3 My third is in CAR but not in CAT.........................................................
4 My fourth is in FOOT but not in FOOD................................................
5 My fifth is in H EART but not in HEAT..................................................
6 My sixth is in HEAR but not in HERE...................................................
7 My seventh is in DIED but not in DEAD...............................................
8 My eighth is in TRY but not in CRY......................................................
The secret had been held for over two hundred years behind
the_________
Q Vocabulary - crime A Match these "crime"
words (1-10) to their correct definitions (A-J).
1	] prison	A	investigation
2	case	B	examined
3	| police	C	questioned about a crime
4	] murder	D	killing
5	] suspected	E	organization that enforces the law
6	□ guilty	F	not innocent
7	I   | investigated	H	thought to be the person who committed
			a crime
8	] accused	G	taken by the police to be formally
			questioned
9	] interrogated	I	said to have committed a crime
10	] arrested	J	institution where criminals are kept as a
			punishment for their crime
B  Now complete these sentences with the crime' words above.
1 Someone stole something from the shop, so Phoebe called for the...........................
2 When they.........................., they discovered who the murderer
was.
3 When everything was solved, the..........................was closed.
4 Joe had left fingerprints in the shop and so he was one of the
people..........................of the burglary. He was................k19nd
.....................before being released.
5 After Phil had committed the.........................., he was
..........................and found to be...........................He was sent to
..........................for many years.
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Q Prepositions
Complete these sentences from Chapter Eight with the correct preposition from the box.
off   to    of   for    of   about by
of
1 "They've probably heard....................Judge Pyncheon's visit."
2 The judge had died....................a heart attack.
3 Clifford had spent thirty years in prison....................this murder.
4 He was shocked and frightened....................what he saw.
5 Jaffrey accused Clifford....................his uncle's murder.
6 All of the judge's money and property belonged....................Clifford
and Hepzibah.
7 "I'm a descendant....................Mathew Maule the wizard!"
8 As the carriage drove....................two men looked at each other.
@ Speaking
Work in groups of five. A police officer is investigating the murder of Judge Pyncheon. He wants to know where Hepzibah, Clifford, Phoebe and Holgrave were the night the judge died. Prepare your the questions or answers for your character and act out the situation.
Student A: You are the police officer. Student B: You are Hepzibah. Student C: You are Clifford. Student D: You are Phoebe. Student E: You are Holgrave.
@ Writing
Now write a short dialogue based on activity 5 between the police office and one of the other characters.
Q Discussion
Has your opinion of any of the characters changed by the end of the story? Why/Why not?
	AFTER		READING
INTERNET PROJECT
Film versions of The House of the Seven Gables
Connect to the Internet and go to www.blackcat-cideb.com or www.cideb.it. Insert the title or part of the title of the book into our search engine. Open the page for The House of the Seven Gab/es. Click on the Internet project link. Go down the page until you find the title of this book and click on the relevant link for this project.
Look at the information about the three different film versions of the book The House of the Seven Gables and answer the following questions.
1 In which year was the first film made?
2 Who played Hepzibah Pyncheon in this version?
3 Which version of the film was nominated for an Oscar? For which category?
4 Who were the actors that played the different members of the Pyncheon family in this version?
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This reader uses the EXPANSIVE READING
approach, where the text becomes a springboard to improve language skills and to explore historical background, cultural connections and other topics suggested by the text. The new structures introduced in this step of our READING & TRAINING series are listed below. Naturally, structures from lower steps are included Coo. For a complete list of structures used over all the six steps, see The Black Cat Guide to Graded Readers, which is also downloadable at no cost from our website, www.blackcat-cideb.com or www.cideh.it. The vocabulary used at each step is carefully checked against vocabulary lists used for internationally recognised examinations.
Step Four B2.1
All the structures used in the previous levels, plus the following:
Verb tenses
Present Perfect Simple: the first I second etc.
time that... Present Perfect Continuous: unfinished past
with for or since (duration form)
Verb forms and patterns
Passive forms: Present Perfect Simple Reported speech introduced by precise
reporting verbs (e.g. suggest, promise,
apologise)
Modal verbs
Be I get used to + -ing: habit formation Had better, duty and warning
Types of clause
3rd Conditional: if + Past Perfect,
woitld(n't) have Conditionals with may I might Non-defining relative clauses with:
which, whose Clauses of concession: even though;
in spite of, despite
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