COLEGIO NACIONAL

SECCIÓN: INGLÉS
JULIO DE 2009

READING TIME: THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Chapter 2)

1. Read the chapter carefully and do the activities on pages 12 and 13 of the book.

2. Make a mind map with all the information we learn about Peter Quint in chapter 2.

PETER QUINT

3. What happens in chapter 2? Find 6 (six) mistakes in this summary written by a student.

At the beginning of the chapter the governess feels confused. She has
just seen a woman on the tower. She thinks the man on the tower may
be someone in the family or a salesman but she isn’t sure. The
governess decides to ask Mrs Grose about the man on the tower.
When she is with Miles and Peter Quint, the governess is very happy.
She thinks the children are wonderful. Then one day, when she is
going to the tower, the governess sees Peter Quint in the church.
She’s terrified.

4. Read chapter 2 attentively. Are these true or false? Correct the false statements.
 1- The man on the tower, Peter Quint, is familiar to all the people at Bly.

2- Mrs Grose knows a lot about Quint’s private life.

3- He and Miles spent hours together when Quint was alive.

4- One night he disappeared from the house and moved to the village nearby.

5- Miles’ uncle thought Quint was a bad influence for the boy.

6- The governess doesn’t think the children are safe in the house.

5. At the end of the chapter, the governess says: ‘I knew then that there was something evil

at Bly’.

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Why does she say this? ………………………………………………………………….

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What does she decide to do from now on? …………...……………………………...

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6. About you: Answer these questions with your personal opinion.

a) What answers would you give to the governess’s questions on p. 8?

b) If you saw “a ghost “out the window”, would you go out for him as the governess did or not?

Expand.

c) Describe the picture on page 11 and say what Flora is thinking.

7. We know that the governess wrote everything that happened at Bly in her diary. Imagine

you are the governess and write a diary entry telling the events in chapter 2 and how you

feel about them.

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