The Enemy

Claudia E. Maldonado Acosta

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English VI

Group 3

Miss. Blanca Rosales

The Enemy: Activities

September, 29 2012

Activities
Before Reading

1. Read the story introduction on the first page of the book, and the back cover. How much do you know now about the story?
Who
* Malcolm Jaggard is a government agent?
* Malcolm Jaggard wants to marry Penny Ashton?* George Ashton has disappeared?
* Penny and George Ashton are scientists?
* Penny’s sister is attacked on her way home from church?
* Politicians are Malcolm Jaggard’s bosses?

2. What do you think will happen in the story? For each sentence, circle Y (Yes) or N (No).
* Penny Ashton will marry Malcolm Jaggard. Y/N
* Malcolm Jaggard will find George Ashton. Y/N* George Ashton will die. Y/N
* Malcolm Jaggard will die. Y/N
* Penny Ashton will disappear. Y/N
* The man who threw the acid will be caught. Y/N
* We will discover that George Ashton was a spy. Y/N

3. Sentence 1 was said by a soldier. Sentence 2 is a play on his words. What do you think the two sentences mean?
1 “We have met the enemy, and he is ours” That the enemyis something from us (ours).
2 “We have met the enemy, and he is us” That the enemy is our person (us).

Activities
While Reading

Read Chapters 1 to 3. Match halves of sentences and fill in the correct name each time.
* Penelope Ashton was a biologist doing research in London
* Malcolm Jaggard said that he was an economist
* Benson spoke with an educated accent
* GillianAshton had acid thrown in her face
* George Ashton was a businessman
* Mr. Nameless wanted Malcolm to guard the Ashtons
* Penelope Ashton but there seemed to be no reason for the attack
* Malcolm Jaggard but looked like a fighter
* George Ashton but there was a lot of secret information about him stored in the computer
* Ogilvie but refused to explain why
*Penelope Ashton but lives in Marlow with her father and her sister
* Malcolm Jaggard but in fact was some kind of government agent

Read Chapters 4 to 6. Here are some untrue sentences about them. Rewrite them with the correct information.
1. Gillian was very badly injured
2. Penny doesn’t agree at first to marry him
3. Lord Cregar wasn’t an important scientist
4. Ashtondisappeared because he is in troubles
5. Malcolm told Penny the truth about his job
6. There are more things in the house that the laboratory.

Before you read Chapter 7 (Ashton and the Russian scientist), can you guess the answers to these questions?
1. The Russian scientist is… Ashton
2. Cregar is interested in Ashton because of… his scientists works
3. When they opened thestrong-room, they find… secret scientific papers.

Read Chapters 8 to 10. Who said this, and to whom? Who or what were they talking about?
1. “We’ve both been very busy” Malcolm to Gillian about Malcolm and Penny and him
2. “The whole thing works automatically” Michaelis to Malcolm about the model railway
3. “He doesn’t sound like a violent man” Crammond to Malcolm about Mr. Mayberry4. “She’s destroying the work of God and making monsters” Mayberry to Crammond and inspectator about Penny
5. “Some people think we’re doing wrong, because it’s dangerous” Lumsden to Malcolm about the plan
6. “Just watch him and find out what the hell he’s doing in Stockholm” Ogilvie to Malcolm about Ashton
7. “But we could make a mistake for them and frighten Ashton away fromthem” Ogilvie to Malcolm about an idea that he was thinking
8. “He’ll get himself killed” Hentie to Malcolm
9. “Well, he shot Ashton, didn’t he?” Ogilvie to Malcolm

Read chapters 11 to 13, and then answer these questions.
1. What did Ogilvie want Malcolm to do? To go over everything from my arrival in Stockholm
2. What was Penny doing in Scotland? Playing model trains
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