Oliver Twist

ACTIVITIES Before Reading 1 Read the story introduction on the first page, and the back cover. Answer Yes or No for each sentence. • Oliver Twist's parents are still alive. No • Oliver is poor and homeless. Yes • Fagin and Bill Sikes are wicked criminals. Yes • The Artful Dodger and Charley Bates are honest boys, and are kind to Oliver. Yes • Nancy's situation is a difficult and unpleasant one.Yes 2 What do you think is going to happen to the people in this story? Choose the most probable of these ideas. Oliver Twist • He becomes a hardened criminal like the orders. • He persuades his new friends to give up playing their `games'. • He makes other friends, who help him lead a good, happy life. Bill Sikes and Fagin • They both die in the end. • One of them is hanged for his crimes, and theother escapes. • One of them kills the other. Nancy • She betrays her friends in the end. • She is murdered. • She finds happiness in the end. ACTIVITIES While Reading Read Chapters 1 to 4. Who said this, and to whom? Who or what were they talking about? • `Let me see the child, and die.' It was said by Oliver's mother to the nurse, refering to Oliver. • `The old story.' The beadle to the nurserefering to Oliver's mother. • `I don't like to see them suffer.'

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Mrs. Mann to the Beadle refering to the children. • `Please, sir, I want some more.' Oliver asking for more food. • `You see if I'm not right.' The man who always call fool to Oliver. • `Why shouldn't I be able to make use of them in my work?' Mr. Bumble to Mr. Sowerberry • `Everybody hates me.' Oliver to Mr Bumble talkingabout his own life. • `You'll sleep here, among the coffins!' The undertaker to Oliver refering to where he was going to sleep. • She was so bad it was lucky she died.' Noah with Oliver talking about his mother. • It's the meat that's caused this, you know.' The Beadle to Mrs. Sowerberry. • `We've just taken them all out to wash them, that's all!.' Mrs. Mann to the Beadle refering to the children.• `What fine men they were! Loyal to the end.' Fagin refering to his boys • `Do you see that old man outside the bookshop? He's the one.' Dodger to Oliver refering to the old gentleman • `I'm afraid he's hurt himself.' The old gentleman refering to Oliver. Before you read Chapter 5, can you gess the answer to these questions. • Will Oliver be sent to prison? No • Will the old gentleman try to helphim.? Yes • Will the Dodger and Charley Bates rescue him? No • Will the policeman believe Oliver and let him go? Yes 2

• Will Oliver ever return to Fagin's house? Yes Read Chapter 5 to 8. Choose the best question−word for these questions, and then answer them. • Why was Mr. Brownlow reluctant to take Oliver to court? Because he was agraid that Oliver was ill. • Who was the magistrate in courtthat day, and what was he like? Mr. Fang, and seemed a desagreable man. • Who had seen Mr. Brownlow's handkerchief being stolen? The bookshop owner. • Why were Fagin and Bill Sikes worried about Oliver's arrest? Because he can told the police what they are doing. • What did Nancy pretend to be at the police station? Oliver's sister. • What did Mr. Brownlow and Mr. Grimwig desagree about? About thetrust of Oliver • Who kidnapped Oliver and took him back to Fagin's house? Nancy and Sikes • What was Mr. Bumble's reward for his information about Oliver? Five pounds • Why did Fagin want Oliver to `do the job' at Chertsey? Because he was the smallest boy • Why did the dying nurse in the workhouse tell Mrs. Corney? She stole the gold of Oliver's mother. • What did the stranger called Monks wantFagin to do with Oliver? Turn him into an ordinary thief. • What happened after Oliver was shot and Sikes pulled him out? They left him in a fielt and ran away.

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• Who did ther servants find on the front doorstep the next day? The boy that they shot last night, Oliver. Before you read Chapter 9, can you guess what happens? • Oliver is arrested and sent to prison for attempted burglary....