Of Mice and Men Sample Revision Activity Characters y y y y y y y George Lennie Crooks Curley Curley s Wife Slim Candy

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Revision Activity

Dr Henry Jekyll, Fellow of the Royal Society, is a respected physician and chemist. Gabriel Utterson(his lawyer) and Dr Hastie Lanyon(his school friend and colleague) are concerned about the direction his scientific research is taking him, and about his close association with the sinister and brutish Mr Edward Hyde. Utterson and his cousin Richard Enfield witness Hyde knocking over an eightyear-old girl, near the dingy back entrance to Jekyll s house. Dr Jekyll has given his lawyer a Will in which he has left a quarter-of-a-million pounds to Hyde. Although Utterson fears that this document hides some disgrace (such as blackmail) he agrees with Jekyll that, come what may, he will see it honoured. Then , in a foggy street not far from the river, Hyde clubs to death the elderly Sir Davers Carew, M. P., who is on his way to post a letter to Utterson. The police search Hyde s rooms in Soho, and find a half burnt chequebook there. Utterson notes how Hyde s handwriting closely resembles Jekyll s. But Hyde disappears, and Dr Jekyll devotes himself to charitable work and religion. Some weeks later Dr Lanyon-who is dying of shock-gives Utterson a sealed document to be opened only after Jekyll s death, but refuses to discuss its contents. Then Utterson and Enfield catch sight of Dr Jekyll, at the window of his handsome town-house, suddenly turning away from them in distress. Utterson breads into Jekyll s laboratory, and finds that Hyde has poisoned himself; he also finds religious books annotated with blasphemies . But Jekyll is nowhere to be found. Dr Lanyon s Narrative tells of how, at Jekyll s request, he once broke into a laboratory, stole some white powders and phial of blood-red liquid and gave them to the fugitive Mr Hyde-who the proceeded to turn himself into Dr Jekyll. Henry Jekyll s Full Statement confesses the double life he has led, his researches into separating his personality into good and evil, and the gradual ascendancy of evil Mr Hyde over hypocritical Dr Jekyll. One day the transformation becomes involuntary, and Jekyll is unable to reverse it because he has run out of the original batch of the powders. The brute that slept within me is now in control.

Carol Ann Duffy Sample Revision Activity

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Before You Were Mine I'm ten years away from the corner you laugh on with your pals, Maggie McGeeney and Jean Duff. The three of you bend from the waist, holding each other, or your knees, and shriek at the pavement. Your polka-dot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn. I'm not here yet. The thought of me doesn't occur in the ballroom with the thousand eyes, the fizzy, movie tomorrows the right walk home could bring. I knew you would dancelike that. Before you were mine, your Ma stands at the close with a hiding for the late one. You reckon it's worth it. The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?I remember my hands in those high-heeled red shoes, relics,and now your ghost clatters toward me over George Square till I see you, clear as scent, under the tree, with its lights, and whose small bites on your neck, sweetheart? Cha cha cha! You'd teach me the steps on the way home from Mass,stamping stars from the wrong pavement. Even then I wanted the bold girl winking in Portobello, somewherein Scotland, before I was born. That glamorous love lastswhere you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine.

A View From a Bridge Sample Revision Activity 1. Listen 2. Underline the phrases/words that are emphasised. 3. Draw pictures of how the characters would look (facial expressions, body language)

EDDIE: Ya can t tell, one a these days somebody s liable to step on his foot or sump m. Come on, Rodolpho, I show you a couple a passes. (He stand below table.) BEATRICE: Go ahead, Rodolpho. He s a good boxer, he could teach you. RODOLPHO: (embarrassed): Well, I don t know how to (He moves down to Eddie.) EDDIE: Just put your hands up. Like this, see? That s right. That s very good, keep your left up, because you lead with the left, see, like this. (He gently moves his left into RODOLPHO s face.) See? Now what you gotta do is you gotta bllock me, so when I come in like that you (RODOLPHO laughs.) All right, now come into me. Come on. RODOLPHO: I don t want to hit you, Eddie. EDDIE: Don t pity me, come on. Throw it, I ll show you how to block it. (RODOLPHO jabs at him, laughing. The others join.) at s it. Come on again. For the jaw right here. (RODOLPHO jabs with more assurance.) Very good! BEATRICE (to MARCO): He s very good! (EDDIE crosses directly upstage of RODOLPHO.) EDDIE: Sure, he s great! Come on, kid, put sump m behind it, you can t hurt me. (RODOLPHO, more seriously, jabs at EDDIE s jaw and grazes it.) Attaboy. (CATHERINE comes from the kitchen, watches.) Now I m gonna hit you, so block me, see? CATHERINE (with beginning alarm): What are they doin ? (They are lightly boxing now.) BEATRICE ( - she senses only the comradeship in it now): He s teachin him; he s very good! EDDIE: Sure, he s terrific! Look at him go! (RODOLPHO lands a blow.) at s it! Now, watch out, here I come, Danish! (He feints with his left hand and lands with his right. It mildly staggers RODOLPHO. MARCO rises.) CATHERINE: (rushing to RODOLPHO): Eddie! EDDIE: Why? I didn t hurt him. Did I hurt you, kid? (He rubs the back of his hand across his mouth.)