Reflex
The
Silver
Sword
A
Tale
of Two
Cities
To
8 7
whIlE
READING
And
whIlE
READING
6ChApTers
How . . .?6Philip
didn’t
win
either race. He came in
1 Edek
had
run
away
from
the Warthe
camp.
Jacques
Five,
about Gaspard’s
dead
body
after the
second on
Daylight,
and third
on
Chainmail.
27 When
at the
fieldGeorge
kitchenhad
finished,
Ruth
soldiers
him.
What .the
. had
.?fight
Hekilled
learnt
that
stopped
at
holding
Edek’s
hand.
2 was
Madame
Defarge,
about
Revolution.
Lance
Kinship’s
house
forthe
a drink
on his way home.
38 Jan
not
believe
Edek’s
story
about
hiding
John
aboutYaxley
whether
Ernest
Defarge
isunder
called
Whydid
.Barsad,
. .?
Because
was
home
from
Hong
aJacques
train.
not. weeks after George’s death.
Kong justorthree
In
Berlin
stayed
inand
anon
old
cinema.
49 Ernest
about
the
attack
the
Bastille.
What
. Defarge,
. .?the
It children
helped
the
wives
children
of dead
5 Jarvis
Jan
helping
some
other
boys to who
stealwas
foodgoing
from
Lorry,
about
Jerry
Cruncher,
and was
injured
jockeys.
thetake
trains.
to
care of Mr Lorry on his trip to Paris.
reAdIng ChApTer 10
6Before
The
American
toldMarquis
Jan he had
been stealing
Charles
Darnay,Captain
about the
of Evrémonde
Encourage
students
to
speculate
and
to
American food sent to feed the refugees.make
(himself).
guesses,
but
not
tell
them
the
answer.himself,
They have
will
7 Jan
went
todo
prison
because
children
didn’t
Charles
Darnay,
about
beingthe
a prisoner
find
out
as
they
read
that
the
answer
is
number
enough
money to pay
the 200 marks.
and remembering
Dr Manette’s
many years in the2.
Bastille. 10 To 13 whIlE READING
ChApTers
ChApTers 9 And 10 whIlE READING
11ChApTers
Lord
White,
to Philip,
about
the photographs
that
A Bavarian
farmer,
to the
children,
about a potato
8 And
9 whIlE
READING
showed
Dana
and
Ivor
den
Relgan
as
lovers.
thatDr
Jan
had thrown
at him.
1 F
Manette
was safe
in Paris.
Harold,
towas
Philip,
den Relgan
no longer
FrauLucie
Wolff,
tovery
her about
husband,
about
Edek.
22 F
afraidIvor
of Madame
Defarge.
being
in
the
Jockey
Club.
Jan, to the farmer, about the fact that the farmer’s
3 T
Elgin
Yaxley,
toGerman
Philip, about
asking
him for
sonsMost
had
been
soldiers,
andto
sothe
enemies
who
43 F
of
the
prisoners
werePhilip
sent
Guillotine.
more
money
for
the
Injured
Jockeys
Fund.
had fought against Polish people.
5 T
446 F
Mrs
Jackson
neighbour),
tonot
Philip,
about
FrauHe
Wolff,
to(Philip’s
thehelp,
children,
mother.
agreed
to
if his about
life wastheir
put in
the
man
from
the
water
company
who
came
to hide
5 danger.
Edek, to the Burgomaster, about Jan, trying to
check
Philip’s
pipes.
the Mr
factLorry
that Jan
German.
7 F
wascouldn’t
planningspeak
to leave
Paris the next day.
56 Ivor
den
Relgan,
to
Philip,
about
burning
The Burgomaster, to the farmer, about theGeorge
children,
ChApTers
10 And 11 whIlE READING
Millace’s
house.
who had to
be sent home like other refugees.
2+16
3+15about
4+10
6+14 7+18
8+11
671+12
Clare,
to the
Philip,
his 5+17
injuries,
Edek, to
Burgomaster,
about hiswhich
fathershe
Joseph
9+13
realized
had
been
caused
by
a
beating,
not
a
fall
Balicki.
Darnay
before the Tribunal a second time,
aappeared
horse.to the
8 from
The farmer,
children, about using his canoes
because
he
was
accused
by three
citizens.
When
7 Dana
to Philip,
about
the list
sheDr
had
to get den
awayRelgan,
by river.
Manette
that heof
was
one of the
he
writtenheard
on a packet
cigarettes
foraccusers,
George Millace.
Tothe
13 Tribunal.
whIlE
READING
spoke
to
Butabout
Defarge
8ChApTers
The angrily
police11inspector,
to Philip,
theexplained
hydrogen
1that
She
gogas
of in
herPhilip’s
suddenly,
henearly
fell back
helethad
found
apaddle
paperwater
written
byand
Dr
in
sulphide
filter
thatManette
killed
the
water.
theinto
Bastille,
and
he
read
it
aloud
to
the
Tribunal.
The
Jeremy.
2paper
Theytold
found
theirofpaddle
again, because
the river
a story
the Evrémonde
brothers,
who had
Before reAdIng ChApTer 14
carried
down to
caused
theitdeaths
of them.
four members of a family. The
students
speculate
and
to to
make
3Encourage
Jan had
left
at theto
next
the
people
were
soitangry
toWolffs’
hear offarm,
these
crimes
thatphoto
they
guesses,
but
do
not
tell
them
the
answers.
They
of Darnay
Rudolf. must go to the Guillotine the next
said
day.will
out
they
read Carton
that
answers
are
and
4find
Because
she
thought
Edekthe
was
so to
ill the
that
he1cmight
After
the as
trial,
Sydney
went
Defarges’
2b.
die beforewhere
they got
to Switzerland.
wine-shop,
he heard
Madame Defarge talking
5ChApTers
Because
he
to go Defarge
back to did
the not
Wolffs’
about
her family.
wantfarm
to
14wanted
To Madame
16 whIlE
READING
and
get
the
silver
sword.
stop
the
killing
until
all
the
Evrémonde
family
were
On the diazo film and paper Philip discovered a list
6of
Because
Jan screamed
at him
kicked
him
when
dead.
Dr Manette
could
do
nothing
to
help
Darnay
names,
dates,
and
drugs,
andand
a letter
written
by
Joe wouldn’t
take
him
north
Boding.
because
his mind
returned
to the
past. Carton,
George
Millace
tohad
Lance
Kinship.
Because
of this
7letter,
Because
he had
received
from
Herr
and
however,
had
a that
plan,
whichletters
he kept
to himself.
he knew
Lance
Kinship
had
killedWolff
George.
Joseph
Balicki,
and
he
now
knew
for
certain
that
the
Philip’s
mother had died from drugs, so Philip planned
Before reAdIng ChApTers 12 And 13
children’s
father
was
living
in
Switzerland.
to
make
Lance Kinship
give speculation.
him the names
people
Open
answers.
Encourage
Doofnot
give
8who
Thesold
heavy
rainHe
turned
thethen
stream
into
a names
fast-moving
drugs.
would
give
these
to
the answers, which are:
river,
which
carried Edek’s boat out into the lake.
the
drugs
police.
1 Sydney Carton is going to change clothes with
9 Victor
BecauseBriggs
she thought
thathe
hewould
cared more
about him
his
told
asking
Charles Darnay,
soPhilip
that Charles
canstop
escape,
and
dog
Ludwig
than
about
Edek.
toSydney
lose races.
willHowever,
die in his Philip
place. decided to become a
photographer, leave Lambourn, and marry Clare.
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Before reading activities (page 76)
ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING
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F 5T 6F 7F
2 Tand3 London.
F
1 FParis
2 In the Bastille prison in Paris.
ACTIVITY 2 BEFORE READING
3 Lucie.
Encourage students to speculate and to make
4 ‘Jacques’.
guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will
5 ‘A terrible machine of death’, with a sharp knife that
find find
out as
readread
that that
the answers
1a, 1c
will
outthey
as they
the ‘yes’ are
answers
are
cuts off people’s heads.
(but for the
Injured
numbers
1, 2,
and 4.Jockeys Fund, not himself), 2a,
2b, 2d. 2 BEFORE READING
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY 3 BEFORE READING
Encourage students to speculate and to make
The Second World War began in 1939 and ended
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
Europe. To get to Switzerland, they had to go west to
numbers
5 1and
6.
ChApTersand
To
5 whIlE
Germany,
then
south READING
to Switzerland.
1ACTIVITY
Because 3heBEFORE
didn’t READING
like cheating, and he knew that he
a very
good
chance
of winning
that day.
Inhad
France
in the
18th
century
rich noblemen
owned
2most
He of
drove
off
the
road
and
into
a
tree,
probably
the land, and the poor had nothing.
They had
because
he
went
to sleep
whiletoheeat,
wasand
driving.
hard
lives,
did
not
have
enough
hated
the
ChApTers 1 To 3 whIlE READING
3King
Because
he
was
interested
to
find
out
why
George
and
noblemen.
1 How
. . his
.? He
knocked down a guard with a catapult
had kept a box of his worst mistakes.
and stole his uniform. Then he walked out of the
4 By giving him a lot of money.
prison with the other guards.
5 Because it showed that they had met each other
2 How . . .? By hiding in a luggage lift.
before O’Tree shot Yaxley’s horses.
3ChApTers
Why . . .? 1Because
a prisoner
had escaped.
To 3 whIlE
READING
6 He was not a serious or responsible person.
What Cruncher
. . .? The Nazis took her away and sent her to
14 Jerry
7 Because nobody knew that he had them.
Germany.
2 Jarvis
Lorry
8 Dana knew him because she got drugs from him,
Why . . .? Because
35 Monsieur
Defarge on the night his wife was taken
and Ivor hit him because he wanted him to stay away
away, someone
shot at the car, and one of the Nazi
4 Madame
Defarge
from Dana.
soldiersfather,
was hitDr
inManette
the arm.
5 Lucie’s
9 Because he thought they could put Philip’s life in
What . . Darnay
.? To tell them that he was going to
6 Charles
danger.
Switzerland
to find their mother, and that they
7 Sydney
Carton
reAdIng
ChApTer
6 they could.
should
follow him
as soon as
8Before
Miss
Pross
students
to speculate
and
to make
7Encourage
Where . . .?
To the place
where the
trains
slow down.
ChApTers 4 And 5 whIlE READING
guesses but do not tell them the answers. They will
And
5 whIlE
1ChApTers
Who . . .? 4The
child
of a READING
man called Gaspard.
find out as they read that the answers are 1c and
12 T
How . . .? By holding on under the Marquis’s coach.
2b.
23 F
The
but
How
. . children
.? He feltstole
theyfood
werefrom
hard,their
cruelenemies,
landowners.
ChApTers
6
To
9
whIlE
READING
never
from
their
own
people.
4 What . . .? He was killed by Gaspard (‘Jacques’),
Why
. . .? Because
didn’t want
to destroy
31 T
who pushed
a knifehethrough
his heart
while he was
Daylight’s
4 T
sleeping. enthusiasm for racing.
How
.?and
HisBronia
mother
hadinand
left
to stay
with
52 F
Ruth
lived
thehim
forest
in
summer,
Who
.. .. .?
Charles
Darnay,
Sydney
Carton.
Samantha
several
times
when
he
was
a
child.
and
in
Warsaw
in
winter.
6 What . . .? To remember that there was a man who
Why
. .give
.?asked
Because
was
going
63 F
Ruth
the George
Russian
officer to
find
her to
would
his life
to
keep Millace
someone
she
loved
alive
take
photos
of
andbrother
close
toEdek.
her.him, but he died, and the news
photographers
were
allManette
busy. his real name,
7 F
Jan. .hated
soldiers.
What
.? Heall
told
Dr
How
.
.
.?
He
was
pleased
because
she Marquis
liked his of
84 T
which, since his uncle’s death,
was the
photos,
but was also alarmed at the idea of his
Evrémonde.
Before reAdIng ChApTer 6
h is work.
8 hobby
What . becoming
. .? It brought
back memories of the Bastille,
Encourage speculation. The correct answer is 1,
5 What
. .nine
.? Her
husband’s
Dana
and for
days
and ninefriendship
nights he with
returned
toden
his
but do not tell students this before they read the
Relgan.
old prison work of making shoes.
chapter. Let them check their guesses as they read.
While Reading
While Reading
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Before Reading
activities answers
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activities answers
2 Lucie, her father, little Lucie, Charles and Mr Lorry.
3 Madame Defarge will be killed by Miss Pross. We
do not know what will happen to Ernest Defarge.
4 Sydney Carton and the others who will be sent to
the Guillotine.
ACTIVITY 4 AFTER READING
1+8
It was the best of times, it was the worst of
times.
2+10 It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of
sadness.
3+9 It was the season of light, it was the season of
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
ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to,
than I have ever known.
After Reading
ACTIVITY 1 AFTER READING
Lucie Manette – the doctor’s daughter
Jarvis Lorry – an old friend of the Manettes
Madame Defarge – a good knitter
Dr Manette – once a prisoner in the Bastille
Charles Darnay – the Marquis’s nephew
Sydney Carton – a lawyer
John Barsad – Miss Pross’s brother
Gaspard – the killer of the Marquis
ACTIVITY 5 AFTER READING
Possible answers:
1 Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay looked very
similar, but their characters were very different.
2 Life in France was easy for the rich, but it was hard
for the poor.
3 When the Marquis killed a child, the child’s father
killed the Marquis.
4 The Revolution killed those who were guilty; it also
killed those who were innocent.
5 Miss Pross was a friend of Dr Manette’s family, but
Madame Defarge was their enemy.
6 Charles Darnay loved Lucie and lived, but Sydney
Carton loved Lucie and died.
ACTIVITY 2 AFTER READING
PaRis: Ernest Defarge, Dr Manette, Gaspard, the
Marquis of Evrémonde, Gabelle
London: Jarvis Lorry, Sydney Carton, Lucie Manette,
Jerry Cruncher, Mr Stryver
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ACTIVITY 3 AFTER READING
5 daRnay: Dr Manette, we said I would tell you my
real name on the morning of my marriage – you
remember?
3 dR Manette: Yes, I remember. But must you tell
me?
10 daRnay: Yes, I must. I cannot marry your daughter
without telling you who I really am.
1 dR Manette: Very well, then. Who are you?
8 daRnay: My name is Evrémonde, and since
my uncle died, I have been the Marquis of
Evrémonde. But I am not proud of this name,
and I will never use it.
13 dR Manette: Evrémonde!
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
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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ACTIVITY 6 AFTER READING
My dearest wife,
I am leaving for France very soon. I must go, because
my old servant Gabelle needs my help. When you read
this, I shall be on my way. I did not tell you before,
because I knew you would worry. I promise I will write
to you when I arrive, to let you know I am safe.
Take care of yourself and little Lucie, and your father.
Your loving husband, Charles
ACTIVITIes 7 And 8 AFTER READING
Open answers.
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