《爱情与金钱》背景知识、课堂练习

1Rowena Akinyemi

Introduction

om Briggs; and to guess that there are four main members of the family / suspects besides Molly.

Key: 1c, 2e, 3g, 4i, 5d, 6f, 7b, 8a, 9h.

Once you have gone through the answers to the

first activity, ask the students to look again at the pictures and put them in the order as they think they occur in the story (picture number 1 is also first in the sequence). Ask them to predict, in general terms, the story from the pictures.There is no right or wrong answer to this exercise. Students may suggest sequences of pictures which are different from the book’s. This does not matter as long as the stories they suggest are also plausible.

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a ‘Now I know the true story...’

b A lot of police arrived very quickly.

c The Clarkson family ha

d big,old

house with a beautiful garden.

d ‘She’s dead,’Roger said slowly.‘Mother

is dead.’

e ‘We found the empty bottle o

f sleeping

tablets in Diane’s room.’

f ‘Mother,’Jackie said,‘Diane phoned.She

wants money...’

g ‘Sergeant Foster is going to write it all

down.’

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a copy of the summary and ask them to write in their corrections. Later, they can create their own versions of subsequent chapters containing mistakes for other students to correct.