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24 Great Expectations for ELT
TEACHER’S NOTES
WORKSHEET 9 – VOLUME II, CHAPTERS I–VI – NEW EXPERIENCES
1 Books open. The aim of this task is to get students speculating about Pip’s reactions to what he sees and
experiences, by responding to the language he uses to describe them. The vocabulary box is there to
generate vocabulary, but encourage students to extend this. Check that they understand unpredictable,
distant and snobbish.
Tell them to open their books to page 57. Ask them to pay particular attention to what Pip says about
the items in the box – London, Jaggers and Wemmick. Play CD2, Tracks 1 and 2. Allow students time to
complete the table. Elicit answers as a class.
ANSWER KEY: Answers may vary, but expect the following.
London dark, unpleasant, frightening, dirty, ugly
Jaggers cold, distant, unpredictable, rude, snobbish, frightening
Wemmick polite, formal, distant
2 Books closed. Make sure students read the rubric carefully. The statements are all incorrect. They must
listen to Chapters III and IV (CD2, Tracks 3 and 4) and then write correct statements in the spaces
provided. Play tracks 3 and 4. Pause, then play them again. Allow students time to finish writing and
then elicit answers. Encourage them to support their answers with examples from what they hear.
ANSWER KEY:
1 Estella is Miss Havisham’s adopted daughter.
2 Handel was a composer who wrote a piece of music about a blacksmith.
3 Miss Havisham had a (half ¯ ) brother, as her father secretly married his cook and had a son.
4 The man she fell in love with took lots of money from her.
5 Miss Havisham stopped the clocks when she received a letter from her fiancé breaking off the wedding.
3 1 Books open. Tell students they are going to listen to and read Chapters V and VI. They should
compare Wemminck’s behaviour at the office and at home.
ANSWER KEY: Answers may vary slightly, but expect the following.
Wemmick at the Office Wemmick at Home
polite, but formal and distant friendly, relaxed, creative, talkative, caring
towards his elderly deaf father
2 He has to deal with many unpleasant situations and characters in his work, and so is determined to
keep his home life separate. He has built a kind of ‘castle’ to protect himself and his father from all
the unpleasantness in the world.
4 Elicit students’ responses to this question by encouraging discussion. If students are struggling, write the
following on the board for them to consider:
• Jaggers wants people to be afraid of him.
• He doesn’t like showing his feelings.
• As a lawyer, he doesn’t like people to know what he is thinking.
Encourage students to explore these possibilities.
ANSWER KEY: Answers will vary.