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T e a c h e rs n o t e s
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Great Expectations
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by Charles Dickens
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Communicative activities
The following teacher-led activities cover the same
sections of text as the exercises at the back of the
reader and supplement those exercises. For
supplementary exercises covering shorter sections of
the book, see the photocopiable Students Activities
pages of the Factsheet. These are primarily for use with
class readers but with the exception of pair/group work
questions, can also be used by students working alone
in a self-access centre.
Chapters 813
Put students into small groups and ask them to discuss:
What difference, if any, will Pips great expectations make
to the way in which he is regarded by (a) Joe; (b) Biddy;
(c) Mr Pumblechook; (d) Estella?
Chapters 1418
Students work in pairs. They are Herbert and Pip. They
act out a conversation:
Herbert wants to give Pip sensible advice about Estella.
Will she ever love him as he loves her? Will he ever be
able to marry her? Does Pip accept Herberts advice? Act
out the conversation.
Chapters 1922
Put students into small groups. Ask them to discuss these
questions. Make a note of the guesses the groups make;
they will discover the answers later in the book!
1 Did you guess that the convict was Pips benefactor?
What made you think so?
2 Dickens liked to connect characters together in
surprising ways. Decide which of the characters you
Chapters 2327
Put students into small groups. Now that they know the
answers to the previous exercise, ask them to discuss
these questions:
(a) Are the connections between the characters in Great
Expectations believable?
(b) Are any of the connections more or less believable
than the rest?
Chapters 2832
Put students into small groups and ask them to discuss
this question.
The success of novels told in the first person generally
depends on how we respond to the character telling the
story. How do you respond to Pip? How do you react to
the changes in his personality in the course of the novel?
Glossary
It will be useful for your students to know the following new words.
They are practised in the Before You Readsections of exercises at
the back of the book. (Definitions are based on those in the Longman
Active Study Dictionary.)
Chapters 17
blacksmith (n) someone who makes and repairs things made of iron
brewery (n) a place where beer is made
contempt (n) a feeling that someone does not deserve respect
convict (n) someone who has been found guilty of a crime and sent
to prison
dismissive (adj) refusing to take a person or idea seriously
forge (n) a place where metal objects are made by heating and
shaping them
gin (n) a strong alcoholic drink
gravy (n) sauce made with the juices of meat while it is cooking
handcuffs (n) metal rings joined by a chain to hold a prisoners wrists
together
hulk (n) an old ship used in the early nineteenth century as a prison
marsh (n) an area of soft, low wet land
pantry (n) a room near the kitchen where food is kept
tar (n) a black sticky substance used for making roads
veil (n) a thin piece of material for covering a womans face
Chapters 813
benefactor (n) someone who gives money or help to someone else
cobweb (n) a structure made by spiders to catch insects
guardian (n) someone who is legally responsible for someone elses
child
Chapters 1418
lure (v) to persuade someone to do something by a trick
Chapters 2832
cloak (n) warm clothing like a coat without sleeves
lime-kiln (n) an oven where lime, a white powdery substance, is
heated to make cement
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Students activities
Great Expectations
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(b) Why is the cake on the table covered with dust
and cobwebs?
(c) Why is Pip surprised when he fights the pale
young gentleman?
(d) Why do you think Estella allows Pip to kiss her?
(e) What does Miss Havisham hope that Estella will
do?
(f) What makes Pip ashamed of being trained to
work as a blacksmith?
2 Talk with another student:
What effect is Estella having on Pip?
Chapters 1113
(i)
(f) Mr Pumblechook
Pip
Chapters 67
Who says these words to whom and what are they
talking about?
(a) Your sister is given to government, and she wouldnt
like to have clever people in the house.
(b) Boy, be for ever grateful to all friends, but especially
to those who brought you up by hand!
(c) Its other name was Satis, which is Greek or Latin for
enough.
(d) Beggar him.
CHAPTERS 813
Chapters 810
1 Answer these questions:
(a) What sort of work does Pip do for Miss
Havisham?
He is grateful to her,
thinking she is his
benefactor.
CHAPTERS 14 18
1 Answer these questions:
(a) How did Miss Havisham find out that she had a
half-brother?
(b) Why was he poor?
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CHAPTERS 2832
Chapters 2830
(f)
(b) Why does he say that Pip was to blame for what
happened to his sister?
CHAPTERS 1922
1 Are these sentences true or false? Correct those that
are false.
(a) Pip gets into debt because Herberts lifestyle
makes him spend more.
(b) Biddy can no longer live with Joe now that his
wife is dead, but plans to look after him.
Chapters 3132
CHAPTERS 2327
Put these pieces of information in the order in which Pip
discovers them. Who gives him the information or how
does he discover it?
(a) Compeyson was the man who was going to marry
Miss Havisham.
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