The Black

ACTIVITIES AND SUMMARY
Summary
És un noi que li agradan molt els animals, i trova una esposa que també li agraden. Tenia molts animals, entre ells, un gat negre. De sob
The Black Cat
Before youread
1. Look at the Word List at the back of the book. Find any new words in your dictionary. Then find:
-Deeply: (adverb) far down or in
-Slowly: (adverb) at a slow speed; not quickly.
-Shoulder:(noun) the upper joint of each of a person's arms and the part of the body between this the neck.
-Sure: (adjective): completely confident that one is right.

a) Two words for people: careful,little.
b) Two feelings: pain, afraid.
c) One thing that shows a face and one thing that hides a face:
d) A thing for cutting and a thing for lighting a dark room: axe and

2. Read theintroduction to this book and answer these questions.
a) Who kills what in "The Black Cat"?:
b) Whose face is in the portrait in "The Oval Portrait"?: A portrait is of a beautiful young woman in a lonelyhouse.
c)What is the stranger wearing in "The Mask of the Red Death"?:
d) What did Poe write stories about?: Poe wrote stories about pain and horror.
e)Which part of his life was happy? He was happywhen Poe met a friend from his school days and Poe asked her marry him and she accepted.

3)Look at the pictures in the first story. Do you think the man has a happy life? Why(not)?
No, because hewas always killing people.

While you read
4) Put these sentences in the correct order. Write 1-8. The person who tells the story:
1- Marries a woman who also loves animals.
2-Begins hittinghis wife and hurting his dear Pluto.
3- Begins drinking too much and becomes more selfish.
4- Cuts out one of Pluto's eyes with a knife.
5-Hangs his cat from a tree until it is dead.
6-Sees theshape of a cat hanging by its neck in the wet plaster.
7-Escapes with his wife from their burning house.
8-Finds a black cat that follows him home.

5) Are these sentences about the second cat right...