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Rose Tremain: The Stack
1. post-reading exercise
The following remarks are made about characters in The Stack. Identify the character and write the remarks
in the columns. No crosses – rewrite the lines!
McCreedy
Hilda
Kathy
Michael
Spiro
short neck
used up
worn-out heels
he’s the future
go back to Ireland
not complaining
indifference
calls him McCreedy, like
he was a stranger
invincible
where her imagination
should be there is an old
tea stain
Dublin jokes
she is going to start
crying
chewed and left
serious business now
stranded
untouchable
messed up
she is on the precipice of
disbelief
when you have got an
sensible answer let me
know
I want to get down from
here
time the smoking killed
her
he laughs goodnaturedly
he can’t get it down
commiseration
you’ll make us the
laughing stock
something he once had
and knows he’s lost
He can’t. Not anymore
Far from home, like me,
but making a go of it
On the basis of your lines make a description or characterization of the characters in The Stack
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Rose Tremain, The Stack.
1 Link the adjectives below with the right noun:
Adjectives:
Sensible, bulbous, smelly, shapely, miniature, worn-out, neglected, uneaten, spike-haired,
appropriate, neat, funny, fancy-sounding.
Nouns:
Shoes, garden, answer, stack, heels, girl, stuff, words, piece of meat, underwear, hat, legs,
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Rose Tremain, The Stack
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Crossword based on vocabulary from The Stack
see below:
Across
2. very seriously
5. Irish beer
7. stinging plant
8. shut with a bang
Down
1. walk tiredly
3. look like
4. can't be beaten
6. pile
© 2002 Forfatterne og Systime A/S. Dette materiale er lavet i tilknytning til bogen FLUX (Systime, 2002) og må frit anvendes til undervisnings- og
privat brug. I øvrigt er det underlagt den gældende lovgivning vedrørende ophavsret.
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Rose Tremain: The Stack
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The following remarks are made about characters in The Stack. Identify the character and write the remarks
in the columns. No crosses – rewrite the lines!
McCreedy
Hilda
Kathy
Michael
Spiro
short neck
used up
worn-out heels
he’s the future
go back to Ireland
not complaining
indifference
calls him McCreedy, like
he was a stranger
invincible
where her imagination
should be there is an old
tea stain
Dublin jokes
she is going to start
crying
chewed and left
serious business now
stranded
untouchable
messed up
she is on the precipice of
disbelief
when you have got an
sensible answer let me
know
I want to get down from
here
time the smoking killed
her
he laughs goodnaturedly
he can’t get it down
commiseration
you’ll make us the
laughing stock
something he once had
and knows he’s lost
He can’t. Not anymore
Far from home, like me,
but making a go of it
On the basis of your lines make a description or characterization of the characters in The Stack
© 2002 Forfatterne og Systime A/S. Dette materiale er lavet i tilknytning til bogen FLUX (Systime, 2002) og må frit anvendes til undervisnings- og
privat brug. I øvrigt er det underlagt den gældende lovgivning vedrørende ophavsret.
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Rose Tremain The Stack
Opgave 4
Across
1. belonging to the green island
4. fags
5. pile of e.g. plates
7. cutlet or steak
8. beer
9. piece of meat
11. brand of beer
Down
2. way of cooking meat
3. celebration to do with your age
5. finished, about McCreedy
6. sophisticated
10. bar
© 2002 Forfatterne og Systime A/S. Dette materiale er lavet i tilknytning til bogen FLUX (Systime, 2002) og må frit anvendes til undervisnings- og
privat brug. I øvrigt er det underlagt den gældende lovgivning vedrørende ophavsret.