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THE ELEPHANT MAN
A h
undred
ycars ago, the world was very different.
P
oo
r
people
lived
in
cold , dark h
omes,
and never
saw
a
doctor when
they
were
ill.
And
if you
wc
rc poor and
very, very ugly ...
T h
is
is
th
e
story of
a p
oor,
ugly man.
Nobody
loved
him, cveryonc laug hed at hi
m.
T h
ey
put h im
in
a cage,
like an anim al at the zoo. T hen one day a doctor
saw
him and thought,
This
poor ma n is intercsting. I
want
ro
study him.
Sl
owly,
the
Elephant Man became
famous,
and everyone
wanted to
meet him . Even thc
Queen vis
ited
him
But w h
at
was the Elephant Man rea
ll
y like?
Did
he
thin k and fcel likc o the r pcopl
e
Was he a
sad,
an
gry
man? Co uld he cvcr smile and laugh, and fo rget his ugly
fa ce and bis strange, ugly body?
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NTRODUCTION
The
Creature in the Shop
1
2
Thc
Card
8
3
A Lctter to
The
T imes'
3
4
Mcrrick's First
Home
16
5
An
Important
Vi
sitor
22
6 Outs
i
de
rhe
Hosp
i
ta
l
29
7
The
Last Letter 35
GLOSSARY
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VlTlES: Before Readi
ng
44
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45
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VJTlES
:
After Reading
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HOR 52
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hapter
TH
CRE TURE
IN TH
SHOP
My
name is
Dr
Frederick
Trev
es. 1 am a
doctor at
the
London
Hospital. One day in 1884 I
saw
a picture n
th
e wind
ow
of a s
hop
near the h
ospita
l. I stopped in
fro
nt of
the shop
and
looked
at the
picture.
t
first
felt interested then I felt angry
th
en
af
raid . t
was
a
horr
ible ugly picture.
Th
e
re was
a
man
in
the
picture
One day
Dr
Treves
saw
a picture in a shop
near the hospital.
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The Elephant Man
but
he did not look like you and me. He
did
not look
like a man.
He looked
like
an
elephant.
I read the writing under the picture. It said:
Come in and see the Elephant Man. Two pence.
I opened the door and went in.
There
was
aman in the shop. He was a dirty
man
in
an old
coat
with a cigarette in his
mouth.
What
do
you
want?
he asked.
' I'd like
to
see the elephant
man,
please,' I said.
The man looked at me angrily. 'Well, you can t, he
said. The shop's closing now. You can come back
tomorrow.
I m
sorry,' I said. But I would like
to
see im
now.
I have
no
time
tomorrow-
I have a lot
of work
todo.
But I can give you more than two pence.'
The man looked at me carefully. Then he took the
cigarette out of his mouth
and
smiled wi
th
his yellow
teeth.
'All right, sir,' he said. 'Give
me
twelve pence
then.
Iga ve him the money and he opened a door at the back
of the
shop.
We went into
a little
room
.
The room
was
cold and
dark,
and there was a horrible smell in it.
A creature sat on a chair behind a table. I say a
creature, because it
was
not a man or a woman, like
you
or
me.
The
creature
did
not move
or look at
us. It
sat very quietly on the chair in the cold,
dark,
dirty
2
The
Creature in the Shop
room,
and looked
at
the ta ble. The creature had a cloth
over its head, beca use
of
the cold. On the table in
front
of
it,
there was
a dead flower.
Stand
up ' said the shopkeeper, loudly.
The creaturestood
up
slowly. It took th e
old
cloth off
its head, and
put
it on the chair.
It
sat very quietly
on the
chair in the cold dark dirty
room
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The Elephant Man
1 l
ooked
at
th
e creature and fe
lt
sad . I ama d
octor,
so
know
a
lot about
accide
nt
s and
ill
peo
pl
e. see
horrible, ugly things every day. But thi s creature, this
thing, was the worst of all.
There
were no men or
women in the hospita
ll
ike him.
He wore some old trousers, but no shirt, coa t,
or
shoes, so I cou ld see his body very well. His head was
thc most interesting thing.
t was
very, very big -
ke
an enormous bag with a lot of books in it. The head did
not have much hair, and tb ere was anoth
er
bag of
br
ow n, d irty skin at tbe back
of
it. T his skin ca
rn
e
clown bel
ow hi
s neck. could no t see
one
of bis eyes
very
we
ll, because a
lot of
s
kin
came clown in fr
on
t
of
his face, too.
An enorm ous red tooth carne out of his mouth,
und
er
his nose . It looked like an elephant s to oth. The
mouth and nose were like hales in th e face. The face
co uld not smile or laugh
or look
angry
or
sad, because
the skin co uld
not
move. lt
was dead
, like an ele
phan t s
fa
ce.
T here were
more bag
s
of
dirty s
kin
on the
front
and
back
of
the creature's body. These bags ca
rn
e
ow
n t o
bi
s legs.
The
right
arm was enormous,
a
nd
there were
bag
s of skin
on it,
too. The right
hand was
likc a m
an s
foot.
But thc left hand - the left arm and the left hand
4
The
Creature in the Shop
were
beaut
iful The left
arm had
wonderful skin, and
th e fingers of the left
hand
were
long an
d bea uti ful. lt
was like a young woman 's hand
Walk, M err ick ' sa id the shopkeeper angrily. Come
on, quickly, move' H e hit the creature wit h his hand.
Sl
ow
ly, the cr
eature wa
lked across the r
oo m
. But he
cou Id
not wa
lk wel l
His
legs were very big and fat,
and
he had a bad back . He
co
uld not walk far without a
stick .
All right, thank you, said. Let him sit clown. J
don t
want to see any more. felt ill, and the smell in
the room was very bad.
Yes, sir, said the sho pkeeper. 'Sir clown,
Merr
i
ck.
The
le t hand was like a
woman s
hand; the fmgers
were long and beautiful.
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heElephant Man
We went o
ut
of the room and closed
th
e
do
or. The
s
hopk
eeper smiled
at
me with his yell
ow
teeth.
'\Vonderfu l, sir, isn't it?' he said.
The
best Elepha
nt
Man
in
England
Hundreds of
people come
to
see him,
yo l know, hundreds I take him all over the country, I
do '
'Yes, very
int
eresting , I said.
Can
I sit clown?'
Yes, sir, of course. Here s a
chair.
He lo
oke
d at me,
smiling.
Wo
uld you like a glass
of
water, sir?'
'Yes, please,' I said .
Then
I l ooked at
th
e
thin
gs
in
the dirty sh
op.
There we re t
wo
or three bad app l
es
and
sorne old black bananas:
th
at
was al .
E
r, no
...
no,
thank yo u. I m all
rig
ht ,' I said. Did you .
..
did you
ca ll the creature Merrick?'
Th a
t's ri ght, sir. Joseph
Me r
rick.
The
best Elepha
nt
Man
in England I take him a
ll
over the country, you
know. Lots of people want
to
se e
him
.
Yes, I see. Do you get a lot of money
?
'Well, sometimes
we
do, sir, yes. But it s difficult,
you see, sir, beca use of
th
e police.
Th
e
pol
ice
don t
like
us, you see, sir. So
we
can't stay in a
town
very long.
We
usually move every week
.
'Yes, I see. Well, anyway, Mr ... er?'
'Silcock, si r. Simon Silcock.'
'Yes, well,
Mr
Silcock,
I m
a doctor at
th
e London
Hospital. My
nam
e is
Dr
Treves. 1
think
this ... er . ..
6
he
Creature in the Shop
hen
1looke d at the things in the dirty shop
this m
an
J oseph Merrick is very
in t
erest ing,
and
I
wou ld like to see him at the hospital. I want to look at
him mor
e carefull
y,
you see.
Yes sir, I see. But how can he get to the hospital? It s
goi
ng to
be difficult.
Why, man?
The
hosp ital s
not far
from here.'
We
ll
, yes, sir. I
know.
But
, you see,
Merrick
can t
wa
lk very well. He needs help.'
You can
come
with him. Do you want m
ore
mon
ey? Is that it?'
'Well, yes, sir, I
do
. But, you see,
pe
ople are afraid of
hirn too
...
In
th
e
road,
little boys always
run
after him
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The
Elephant Man
and hit him. Then the po lice get angry because people
are afraid . Sometimes
th
ey take us
to
prison.
1
see,' l said. 'Well, how can he
cometo
th e hospital ,
then?'
'Br ing a cab, sir,' said Silcock. 'You can take hi m to
the hospital in a cab.
hapter 2
THE
C RD
So next day, at seven o 'clock, 1 carne
to
the sh
op
in a
cab. There were
not
very many people in the roa
d,
because it was early
in
the morning. In
No v
ember it
is dark at seven o'clock in the morn ing, and 1 could
not see the shop very well. 1
wait
ed
fiv
e minutes. A
postm an walked past. Then the door of th e shop
opened, and the creature, Merrick, ca rne
ou
t.
I could
not
see his face
or
his body. H e had
an
e
normou
s black
hat on
hi s he
ad
, like a big box. A gr
ey
cloth carne down from the ha t, in front of his face.
T here was a hole in the cloth in
front
of hi s eyes. He
co uld see out of
th
e hole but 1 could not see in. He
wore
a long black
coat,
too.
The coat
began at his
neck, and ended
at
his feet, so could not see his arms,
8
The
Card
his body, or his legs. On his feet he wore big shoes, like
old bags.
He had a stick in his left
hand,
and he
wa
l
ked
very
slowly. I opened the
door of
the cab,
and
got
out.
Good morning, M r Merrick, 1 said. ' Can you get
m.
'Elpmyupasteps,' he said.
I m sorry,' I said.
I do n
t understa
nd.
For
a minute he stood by the d
oor
of the cab and
said nothing.
Then
he
hit th
e cab with his stick.
'STEPS' he said loudly. Help me up the steps '
'Help
me
up the steps '
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Th
e Elephant M an
Then
1 understood.
There
were
th r
ee steps
up
int
o
the
cab, and
he could
not
get
up th
em.
Y
es, I see. l 'm
sorry,
1said. 'Let me help you
.
1
took
his left hand and began
to
help him.
My ri
ght
hand
was
behind his back. 1 felt very strange.
His
left
hand
was
like a
young
woman s,
but hi
s back, under
the
coat,
was
horrible. 1 could feel the bags
of
old skin
on
hi
s back under the coat.
He
put one
enormo
us
foot
on
the
firsr step,
an
d then
he
stopp
ed . After a min ute, he moved his second foot
slowly.
Then
he stoppcd
and wait
ed aga
in
.
'H ell
o,
sir. Can 1 help you?'
I l
ooked
be
hind
me. t
was
the pos
tm an.
And behind
him
, 1 could see three
yo
ung boys. One of the boys
laughed.
Th
e
po
stman s
mil
ed. 'Is
the
gentleman ill ?' he as ed.
I
thou
g
ht qu
ickly. 'Yes. But this is a lady,
not
a
gent
leman.
l m
a
do
ctor,
and
she's ill.
Take
her ha
nd,
so I can help her better.
The postman took
Merr
ick 's left
hand,
a
nd
1 helped
him
with two hand
s f
rom
behind. Sl
ow
ly, very slowly,
Merrick went
up
th
e steps
and
in t
o the cab.
One boy was very ne
ar
the cab.
He
called
to
his
friends.
Co me
and
see this, boys A
fat
lady in a bl
ack
coa
t
And look at
that enor
mou
s hat '
10
The ard
T he boys laughed. Th ey were
ve
ry near the
cab
too,
now.
I closed the door
qu
ickly.
T
h
ank
you,'
T
said to the
postman.
T
h
at s
all right, si
r,
he sa id. 'She's a strange lady,
sir ,
isn t
she?'
'She's ill,
that s
all,' I said quickly.
We re
going
to
the
hospital.
Goodbye, and thank you.
The cab drove
clown
th
e
road
to
the
hospital. I
l
ooked at Merrick.
That was difficult,
wasn t
it?' 1
said.
Here is
y
card.
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The
Elephant
Man
At
first he said nothing,
but
then he spoke.
His
voice
was vcry s
tr
ange,
but
I listened to him carefu lly, and
could
und
ers
tand
him.
The steps were very d.ifficult , he said . But most
things are difficult forme.
Yes,
J
sa id. Nothing is easy for you, is it?
No,
he
said. H e
was
very quiet for a m
inut
e. Then
he said, Who are you, sir ?
W
ho am 1?O h, Im sorry. My name is
Dr
Treves.
Here, this is my card.
I gave him a card with my namc on.
Then T
thought,
T
h
at
was
no
goo
d.
This
ma n
ca
n
t
r
ead. But Merrick
took
th e card and l
ooked
at it very carefully. Then he
put it in his trou sers pocket.
1 did no t talk
to
him very much at the hospital. I
looked at his head and arms and legs and body very
carefully. T hen I wrote the
important
things about him
in a li ttle book. A nurse helped me. Merrick l
ooked
at
her
sometimes,
but
she did
not sm
ile
at
him or
ta
lk to
him. I think she was afraid of him. I think Merrick was
afraid
too
, because
he was
very quiet.
At four o clock I took him back to the shop in a cab.
Th e n
ext
day I l
oo
ked in the shop
window
aga in,
but
the picture
was
n
ot
there.
12
hapter 3
A LETTER
TO TH
TIMES
I did
not
see Merrick aga in for two years.
Then,
one
day, the police found him. He
had
my card in his
hand,
so they
brought
him
to
the
London Hospital. He was
very tired, hungry, and dirty, so I put him to bed in a
quiet lit tle room . But he could not stay at the hospital.
He was not ill,
and
of course the beds in the hospital
are for ill people.
We
have no beds for hungry people,
or
ugly p
eop
le.
One day the po/ice brought Merrick to the hospital
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--
T he l phant Man
1
told th
e Hospital
Chairman
Mr
Ca
rr Gomm
a
bout
Merrick.
He
lis tened carefully and
th
en he
wrot
e a le
tter
to
the e
ditor of The Times
new
spaper.
From Th e Times Dece
mber
4th, 1886
A Letter to
th
e Edit or
Dear Sir,
1a m
writing
to yo u about aman in
our
hospital.
He
needs your help. His na me is Joseph Merrick, and he
is 27 years old. He isnot ill, but he cannot go out ofthe
hospital
beca use he is very,
very
ugly.
Nobody
likes
to
look at
him
, and sorne people are afraid
of
him. We
call him the Eiephant Man .
Two years ago, Merrick lived in a shop near the
London Hospital. Fortwo pence, peoplecould see him
and laugh at him. One day Dr Frederick Treves- a
hospital doctor- saw Merrick,
brought him
to
this
hospital, and looked at
him
carefully. DrTreves could
not
help Merrick,
but
he gave
him his
card.
Then the shopkeeper, Silcock,
took
Merrick
to
Belgium. A lot of people in Belgium wanted to see
him, and so after a year Merrick had f:50. But then
SilcocktookMerrick s f:50, left Merrick n Belgium, and
went
back
to
London.
4
A Letter to Th e Times
Merrickca me back to London
by
himself. Everyone
on
the
train
and the ship looked
at him,
and laughed at
him.ln London, the police
put him
in prison.
Butthen
they saw DrTrevess card, and
brought
Merrick to the
London Hospital.
This man has no money, and he cannot work. His
tace
and
body are very, very ugly, so of course
many
people are afraid of
him.
But he is a very interesting
man. He can read and
write
, and he
thinks
a lot.
He
is
a good,
quiet
man. Sometimes he makes things with
his hands and gives them to the nurses, beca use they
are kind
to him.
He
remembers
his
mother,
and he has a picture of
her. She
was
beautiful
and
kind, he says. But he never
sees her now. She gave him
to
Silcock a long time
ago.
Can the readers
of
he imes help us? This
manis
not
ill,
but
he needs a
home. We
can give him a
room
atthe
hospital,
butwe
need sorne money. Pleasewrit e
tome at the London Hospital.
Yours faithfully,
F C
Carr Gomm
Chairman ofthe London Hospital
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Sometimes he makes things with his hands
and
gives
them
to the nurses.
The readers of
The
Times are ve ry kind people. They
gave us a lot of money. After one week we had
f 50000
so
Merrick could live in the
ho
spital for all hi s
life. We
cou
ld gi
ve
him a home.
hapter
MERRICK S FIRST
HOM
We gave Merrick two rooms at the back
of
the
hospital. One room was a ba throom so he could have
a bath every day . Soon his
sk
in was much better and
th
ere was no horrible sme ll.
16
Merrick s First
Home
The second room had a bed tabl
e
and chairs.
visited him every day and talked
to
him. He loved
reading and talking about books.
At
first he did
no
t
kn
ow
many books: the Bible and one or two
newspapers that s all. But I gave him sorne books of
love stories and he liked them very much. He read
thcm again and again and talked about them oftcn.
For him
th
e
men
and women in these
books
were alive
like you and me. He was very happy.
But sometimes it was difficul t for him. At rst one
or
two people in the hospi tal laughed at Merrick
beca use he was ugly. Sometimes they
brought
their
frie
nd
s to look at him. One day a new nur
se
carne
to
the hospital a
nd no
body
to
ld her about Merrick. She
e gave Merrick
two
rooms at the back of he hospital.
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1was very angry with the nurse.
took
his food to bis room, and opened the door. Then
she saw him. She screamed, dropped the food on the
floor, and ran out of the room.
I
was
very angry
with
the nurse, and
went to
see
Merrick. He
was not
happy
about
it,
but
he was
not
very angry. I think he felt sorry for the gir l.
'People
don t
like looking
at
me. I know that,
Dr
Treves,' he said. They usually laugh or scream.'
'Well, 1
don t want
nurses
to
laugh
at
you,
Joseph,
1said angrily.
1 want them to
help you.
T
h
ank
you,
doctor,
he said, in his strange slow
voice. But it's not
important.
Everyone laughs
at
me. l
understand
that.
1 looked
at
him sad ly. In his
one
good hand, his left
18
Merrick s First ome
hand,
he had the litt e picture of his mother. He looked
at
the picture for a minute, and then
put
it by a flower
on
the table. A
tear
ran out of his eye and clown the
s
kin of
his enormous, ugly fa ce.
Dr Treves,' he said, slowly. You and the nurscs are
very
kind,
and I m very
happy
here. Thank you very
m uch.
But
... I know 1 can t stay here long, and ... 1
would like
to
live in a lighthouse, after the hospital,
please. A lighthouse,
or
a
home
for blind people. I
think
those are
the
best places
forme.
In his one
good
hand he had
the
picture
of
his mother.
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The Elephant an
What
do
you mean? I asked. Why?
He did not l
ook
at me. He put the flower on the
pictu re and looked
at
it carefully.
Lighthouses have sea all round
th
em, don t they?
he said.
Nobody cou
ld look
at
me in a lighthouse, so 1
would be happy there. And blind people can see
nothin
g, so
th
ey couldn t see me, could they?
But Jo seph, I said, thi s is your home. You live here
now. You aren t going
to
leave the
hospita
l.
No t
to
day,
perhaps,
he said. But
soo
n. You are a
kind man,
Dr
Treves. But can t stay here very l
ong
. 1
ha
ve
no money.
1 smiled. Joseph, I said.
T
his is your home now .
Do n
t you understand? Yo u can stay here all your lif
e.
Very carefully , 1 old
him about
the l
etter to The Times,
and
the
mone
y.
I don t think he understood at first, so 1 to ld him
aga in. He
was
very quiet for a
minut
e Then he stood
up
, and
wa
lked up and clown
th
e room very quickly A
strange sound ca rne from
him
, like laughing.
20
A beautiful young woman came to the hospital
and
shook
Merrick s
hand
.
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Chapter
5
N
IMPORT NT V S TOR
I did not
want
Merrick
to
live by himself, like a man in
a lighthouse.
He
read his books, and talked to me, but
I
wanted
him to talk
to
more people And I wanted him
to
talk
to
women.
Merrick
read about
women
in his books,
but
he did
not often talk
to
women. He met the nurses every day,
but th
ey did
not
talk to him
very much. For them, he
was
always a creature,
nota
man.
One day, one of my friends, a beautiful young
woman, carne
to
the hospital. I told her
about
Merrick,
and
took
her
to
his room. She opened the
door,
and
smiled
at
him.
Good morn
ing, Mr
Merrick,
she said.
Then
she
shook
his hand.
Merrick looked
at
her for a minute
with
his mouth
open.
Then
he
sat down on
his bed, with his head in his
hand, and cried. He cried for nearly
five
minutes.
The
tears ran clown his face, between his fingers,
and onto
the floor.
My friend sat on the bed beside
him
and put her
hand
on his arm. She said nothing, but she smiled
at
22
n
Important
Visitar
Por
the
first
time
in his life Merrick
had some
friends.
him and shook his hand aga in before she left.
Dr Treves,' he said
tome
that night. That lady
was
wonderful My
mother
smiled
at
me once, many years
ago,
bu
t
no
women smile
at me
now.
But
this lady
smiled
at
me
too
,
and
she
shook
my hand A bea utiful
lady smiled at me and
shook
my hand '
My young lady fr i
end
carne again the next week,
and
talked to Merrick
for half
an hour. The
week after
that,
she came again with a friend.
They
gave him sorne
books, and hada cup
of
tea with him. t
was
wonderful
for him. For the first time in his life, he
had
sorne
friends .
He
was a ve ry happy man. He sat in bis
room,
and read bis boo ks, and said no more a
bou
t living on a
lighthouse.
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]oseph, t
hi
s
is
Her Majesty Queen
l
exandra,
the Queen
of
ngland.
People began
to
read about
Merr
ick in the
newspapers, so he had a lot of visi
to
rs. Everybody
wanted
to
see him. A
lot of
imp
ortant
ladies and
gentlemen visited him. They smiled at him, shock his
hand, a
nd
gave
him
books. Merrick liked talking
to
these people, and he began
to
forget a
bout
his ugly
body. His visi
tors
never laughed
at
him. He began
to
feellike a man,
nota
creatur
e.
One wonderf
ul
da
y, a very i
mportant
lady carne
to
the
ho
spital
to
visit him. I met
th
e lady, and took her
to
his r
oo
m. Then 1opened the
do
or, and smiled at him.
Go
od
morn ing,
Josep
h, 1 said. There IS a new
vis
it
ar
to
see you
toda
y. A very famous lady.
24
n
lmportantVisitor
Merrick
stood up
beside his tab le. He did not smile,
because his face could
not
smile,
bu
t his eyes looked
happy.
That s go
od
, he said. Who is it?
1 moved away from the door, and
th
e visit
ar wa
lked
in.
Yo ur
Majesty,
th
is is Jo seph
Merrick,
1 said.
Joseph, this is
Her
Majesty, Queen Alexandr
a,
the
Queen
of England.
Queen
Alexandra smiled at him. How
do
you do,
Mr Merrick, she said. l m very pleased
to
meet you.
Then she shook bis hand.
Merr
ick did
not
move.
For
nearly half a minute he
stood
and loo ked at her with his
mouth
open.
Then
he
spoke, in hi s strange, slow voice.
How ... bow do you do, Your Majesty, he said.
But I clon t
th
ink the
Queen
understood him, because
he tr ice
to
get own
on
his knees
at
the same time. lt
was
very
cliffi
cult for him, because of his cno
rm
ous
legs.
No, please, Mr
Merrick,
do get
up,
said the
Queen
.
'1
wou l
like
to
talk
to
you .
Can we
sit
at your
table?
Yes . .. yes, of course, he said. T hey sat
at
the
tablc. She
took
his left h
and, th
e good hand, in hers.
She l
oo
ked at
the
ha
nd
carefully, a
nd
then smi led
at
Merrick
again.
J
often
read
about you in the newspape rs, she said .
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You are a very
in t
eresting man, M r Merrick. You ha
ve
a very difficult life, but people say you're happy.
ls
it
true? Are you h
appy
now?'
Oh, yes, Your Majesty, yes ' said Merri ck. l m a
very
happy
man 1 have a
hom
e here n
ow,
and friends ,
and my b
oo
ks.
I m
happy every h
ou
r
of
the
da
y '
W
hat a wonderful story' she said.
l m
very p leased
to hear
it. Now, tell me about your reading. I see you
ha ve a lot of books here .'
Oh, yes, Your Ma jesty. 1 love my
books,
sa id
Me r ri
ck. A
nd
for nearly half an
hour
they
sat and
talked ab
out
books.
Th
e
Qu
een gave
him
a little
book,
and sorne red flowers, before she left.
After her visit,
Merrick
began
to
sing. He co uld not
6
n
lmportant
Visitar
sing easily,
of
course, because
of
his
mouth, but
all
that day there was a strange, happy noise in his
room.
He looked
at
the flowers carefully, and put them on
his table.
He had many visits from the
Queen, and at
Christmas she sent
him
a Christmas card .
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G J P i n d d ~
ad IL
2 0 ~ ~ 1888
~ . i d
a ~ ~
~ / r n - y o u .
:J
iu:nl L
M ~ .
~ 4 d? :Tdn /ik i 4 ~
~
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fU1d
:r
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e bought
tickets for a
box
at the side of he theatre
wa
nted
to
lea ve the th eatre, but 1stopped him. Then he
was very angry with thi s bad man in the play. He hit his
hand on his chair,
and stood up
and talked
to
the man .
But
nobody hea
rd
him.
When
the bad man
went
to
pri son, Merric k laughed.
Merrick thought the beautiful young lady in the play
was wonderf
ul. He wanted
to
talk to her too. At the
e
nd
of
th
e play he was very happy because she married
a
goo
d yo
un
g man.
H e remembered this play for a lon g
tim
e, and he
talked a l
ot
about the people in it. Wh
at do
you think
they did
af
ter we left? he asked me.
W
here
do
the
young
lady and the
young
man live? What are
th
ey
doing now?
30
Outside the Ho spital
1 don t know, 1 said. Perhaps they li
ve
in the
country.
M erri ck
th
oug
ht
about this for a l
ong
time.
Then
he
said:
Dr
Treves, can I go to the country, please? I saw
the co untry once f
rom
a train, b
ut
1 never went
th
ere . I
often read about it in books . lt s very beautiful, i
sn t
it ?
I wo uld like to see it.
The visi t
to
the theatre was difficu lt but a visit
to
the
country
was more difficult. But again,
one of
his new
frie
nd
s helped us She h
ada
small
ho
use in the country,
an
d Merric k could stay in it for th e summer, she said.
I t
ook Me
rrick
to
th
e
country
in a train
wi
th
dar
k
windows, so
nobody
could see him. Th en
we
went in a
cab
to
thc country house.
There were a lot
of
trees n
ear
the house, but no
people lived
near
it. A countryman
bro
ught food t o the
house every day, bu t no people camenear t.
I stayed
with
him that night. At night, it was very
dar
k and quiet. In the morning, hundreds of birds sang
in the trees, and everything outside the house
was
green.
Merr
ick walked
under
the big trees, looking at
things happily, and singing his strange song.
1went back
to
London,
but
Merrick stayed there for
six weeks. He
was
won derfully happy. Every week, he
wrote me a letter.
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The
Elephant
Man
1
watchedthefish
in
the
stream
too. Theywerevery
exciti ng beca use they m ove very fast. One
minute
they
were there and the next minute 1
couldn't
see them.
But 1waited quietly,
and
they always c me back. 1put
my hand in the water, but 1couldn't touch
them
.
1meta big dog
yesterday.lt
m ade a
very loud
noise
but 1was
not afraid.l
sat
down
quietly and looked at t
and it carne and
smelt
my hand. 1
saw
it again today,
and gave it sorne bread. lt likes me now.
1a m going to put sorne flowers from the country
in
this letter. There are hundredsofflowers here. Did
you
know
that?
llike
the little
blue
ones
best
but
they
are
all beautiful. 1
have
lots of
them
in my room. 1
give
them
water every morning. Little flowers are very
thirsty, you know
1a m very happy he re doctor, but 1want to see yo u
again
soon, too.
With love from yo u r
friend,
Joseph Merrick
t th
e e
nd
of
th
e
summer
he carne
back to
London. H e
was
very well
an
d his s
kin
loo ked
much
better. H e
talked about the
country
a lot but he was happy to see
his friends
an
d his books again too.
4
hapter 7
THE
LAST
LETTER
Six
month
s
la t
er in
pr
il 1890 I found him dead in
bed. H e
was
on his back in bed so at first I
thought
he
was
asleep . I talked
to
him
bu
t he did
not
move.
Then
I
saw
that the skin on his face was blue so I knew he
was dead.
He
could only sleep
with
his arms around his legs
and
his head
on
his knees.
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He did not usually sleep
on
his back. Hi s enormous
head was very heavy so he usua lly sa t up in bed with
his arms round his lcgs and his head on hi s knees. H e
could sleep welllike this.
But he wanted to sleep on hi s back like you and me.
H e tried to sleep on his back that night but his hea
vy
head ca rne
of
f the bed and he broke his neck. H e died
ve ry quickly.
Ncxt day the Chairman
of
the London H ospital
Mr
arr Gomm wrote to the editor of he Times again.
l found
him
d d in bed
6
T he Last Letter
The Times
Ap
r
il16th
, 1890
Dear Sir,
Three anda
half
years ago
1
wrote to
you about
a
man
called Joseph Merrick. This
man was
called
the
Eiephant
Man
beca use he
was
born
with
a
very ugly
body.
Merrick was not
ill,
but
he
could not
work, and
he had
no money
.
The readers of The Times
felt sorry
for him , and
they
gav
e
me
a
lot
of money
for
Merrick. Because
of
this money
,
we cou
ld give
Merrick
a
home
in
the
London
Hospital.
lt was his first good home, and
for
t hree and a
half
years he lived here happily. The
doctors
and nurses
of the
hospital helped
him,
and
many
important people v isited him .
He
read
many
books, he
went to the
theatre, and in
the
summer
he
stayed in
the country for six
weeks. Because
of your
readers
money,
we cou ld
give him
a happy l ife.
Last night Joseph
Merrick
died quietly in his bed .
He was
a
man with
a
very ugly body
,
but
he
was
a
good,
kind
man,
and he
hada
lot
of
friends. We liked
to
talk
to him, and we are all
very
sorry because he is
dead. A l
ot
of people are going to
remember
him for a
long time.
There is sorne
money
eft,
so 1
a m
going to
give
i tto
the
hospital.
Thank yo
u
sir,
for your
help.
You
rs
faithfully,
F.
C.
Carr
Gomm
Chairman
ofthe London
Hospital
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GLOSSARY
bath when you
want to
wash all your body, you sir in a
bath
full of water
below undcr
beside ncxt to
Bible che
most
important book for Christians
box (in a theatre) a small room ; you can watch thc stage from
a box,
but
other people
can t
see you
ca
b an old word for
ta x
i
card a piece of paper with your na me and address on it (a
visi ting card);
ora
ca rd wi th a picture
anda
greeting on it
e
.g. a C hristmas card)
chairm an an important man in the hospital
cloth trouscrs, coats, dresses, etc. are made from cloth
co
untr
y (th
e)
no t the town
creatute a living an imal
drop
u) to Jet something fall
editor the most imporca nt person in a newspapcr office
elephant a vcry big grey an imal with a long nose and big ears
enormo
us very b ig
faithfully (
Your
s faithfully) you write Yours fa i
th f
ully at the
end
of
a
formalletter
fingers you have five fingers on each hand
fish fish live in ri vers and in
thesca
food
what
yo u
cat
gentleman am a n from an impor tant family
glass n) you drink tea from a cup; you drink water from a
glass
39
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ossary
h
eavy
it is d ifficult to carry heavy thin gs; 1,000 ki l
os
is vcr y
hcavy
himse lf (by
him
self) no body
was wit
h hi m
hip thc pl
ace
whcrc
yo ur
leg joi ns
yo
u r
bo
dy
holc an em
pty
space o r
opcnin
g in s
om
erh ing
horr
ible not nice; p
cop
lc are
ofr
en
afra
id of
h
o rr ibl
e th
ings
k
in
d nice, good ; a ki nd person often helps p
eo
ple
kn
ee
the
midd
le of your leg w here it bends
l
ady
a
wom
an from an import a
nt fa
mily
li
fe yo u r life stops when you d ie
lig
ht
ho use a
ta l
buildi ng by or in the sea, wirh a strong
li
ght;
the
li
g
ht
te
ll
s ship s rhat
there
are d
ange
ro us
rocks
like prep) no t different: a river is like the
sea,
beca use it is
mad e of
wa
te r
l
oudly
w ith a lo t
of
no ise
Ma jes ty (
He
r i
s/Yo
ur ) when you speak toa queen or a k ing,
yo u say ' Yo ur
Majcs
ty'
ma
rr
y ro t
ak
c som
cbo
dy as your husba
nd
o r
wif
c
mi rror a piece of spcc ia l glass ; you can see your facc in a mirr or
neck your
neck is bcrween y
our
head
and
y
our
bod y
n
ewsp
a per you read a news
papcr
ro know what is
hap
pe
nin
g in
th
e wo rld
n
ose
yo
ur nos
e is be
tw
e
en
yo
ur
eyes a
nd yo
ur mo
uth
pla
ce
w here
so
mething o r s
om eo
nc is (a
room
, a ho use, a
town
,
etc.)
pla y n) you go to the
th
ea tre to see a p l
ay
po
lice th e p olice hep
peo
ple; thcy al
so
put
bad
p
eop
le in p
rison
prese nt so mething th a t yo u g ive ro o r get fr o m som ebod y (e .g.
a b i
rthday
prese
nt
)
pr
i
so
n a building for b
ad
peoplc; they
mu
st sr
ay
rhere a
nd
ca nn
o t leave
40
Glossary
Queen (
th
e) the mos t i
mp
o rtant wo m
an
in Bri
tai
n
s
ad no
t happy
scr
eam
v)
ro
ma
ke a
loud
high
cry beca
u
se
you are
af
raid
or
ang
ry
sh
ake
hands (pa
st te
nse shoo k)
to
hold so mebod y's hand a nd
movc it
up
a nd d
ow
n as a g r
cct
ing
shopkeeper a
pcrso
n who has a small shop
si de
thc
pa
rt of so
mething tha t is not thc
top,
bo tto
m,
front
or
back
skin yo u ha ve sk in a l o ver your bo
dy
; p
coplc
ha ve d ifferenr
skin
colours
'
smell (
past
tense smel t ) yo u scc w i
th
your eyes;
you sme
ll wit h
your nose
step a p lace
to
p
ut
yo
ur foot
when
you go up
or
d ow n
stick n) a long
pi
ece o f
wood;
Me rrick wa lks with a srick
s trange diffcrent
s
tre
am a
sma
ll river
te
ars water
fr
om your
cycs
whe
n
yo
u cry
theat re a b uildin g wh
ere yo
u go to sce pl
ays
touch v) ro fee l
somcth
ing wi th your
han
d
ugly not bca
ur
ifu l
voice yo u ta lk w ith yo ur voice
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Man
CTIVITIES
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ACTIVTTTES
Befare 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
E
lephant Man?
Tick
one
box
for each sentence.
YES NO
1 P
eop
le l
aug
h
at
him .
o o
2
He is very old.
o o
3
Hi s moth
er
]oves him.
o o
4
P
eop
le
put
him
in
a cage, like an animal.
o o
5
Ch
ildren l
ik
e him.
o o
6
A
doctor wants
ro s
tudy
him .
o o
7
H is na me is ]oseph Merrick.
o
o
2
What is going
to happen
in
the
story? Can
you
gucss?
Tick
one
box
for each sentence.
YES NO
PERHAPS
1
The do ctor
helps th e Elepha11t
Man.
o o o
2
The Elepha11t
Ma11
kills somebody.
o o o
3
Th
e El
ep
ha
nt
Ma
n lives ro he a very
o ld man.
o o o
4 Th
e
Elephant
Ma n finds a
hom
e.
o o o
5
The
El
ephant Ma
fi11ds a wife.
o o o
6
Thc
El
ep
han t Ma11
make
s
some
friends.
o o
o
7
Somebody kills the Elephant Man.
o o o
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ACTIV I
TIES
While Reading
Read Chapters l and 2, and answer
these
quest
ions.
What did
Dr
Treves see in the wi11d
ow
of the shop?
2
Who
did
Dr
Tr eves give twelve pence to?
3 How
did
Dr
Tr cvcs fcel when he saw the Eleph
ant Man?
4 Why
couldn
t
t
he Elephant Man walk
we
ll
?
5 How did Dr T reves and Me rri ck get ro the hosp ita l?
6 What did Dr Treves give Me rr ick?
Dr
Treves wrote about Merrick in
a little
book.
Use
the
se
wo rds
to co
mplete his sentences.
U
se
each
word once.
Then draw
a picture of the Elephant Man.
bag, big, enormous, fingers, hair, man s, nose, skin, tooth
His hea d is very
and
it l
ooks
like an
enormous
with
a l
ot
of
boo
ks in it.
2 T
he
re is not
mu
ch
11
his
head, an
d
the 11
his face can not
mo
ve.
3 An enor mous red omes out of his
mouth,
u11der
his
4
Th
e right
ar
m is
nd
the ri
ght hand
is like a
foot, but the of
the left
hand are long
and
beautifu l.
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TIVITIES While Reading
Read
Chapters
3 and 4.
Choose
the best question-word
for
these questions, and then answer them.
Why
Who What
1 . . . did the
poli
ce b
rin
g
Merrick
to the hospital?
2 ... did
Mr
Carr Gomm write to
he
Times ncwspaper?
3 .. . did the readers of
he
Times do?
4 ... did Mcrr ick have a picture of?
5 ... did thc
nurse do when she saw Merrick?
6 ... did
Merrick
want
to
live
in
a lighthouse?
When the
police found
Merrick
(in Chapter 3), they asked
him
sorne questions.
Complete their
conversation. (Use as
many words as you Jike.)
PoucE: Now, Mr
Merrick. Where do
youlive, sir?
MERRICK :
Po u
cE : Do you ha
ve any
money, sir?
MERRIC
K
Po uCE:
Why
no t? Wh
at
happened to your money?
M ERRI
CK:
Po ucE: You can t s
tay
in prison. Where do
yo
u want ro go
now?
MERRICK
Po ucE: Why? Do you know somebody there?
MERR IC
K
POLICE Ah, 1see. A
ll
right, sir. L
et s go
and see him n
ow
.
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ACTJVITJES While Reading
Before
you read Chapters 5,
6, and 7,
think
about
Merrick s
life. Is it go ing
to
be different now? Sorne of these things
are
going
to happen.
Can
you
guess which?
He never goes
ou t
.
He read
s a lot.
His mother visits him.
The Queen visits him.
He makes new friends.
He vis
it
s a lig
hth
ouse.
He
goes
toa
theatre.
A nu rse
wants to marry
him.
He is very happy.
He
gets ve ry ill.
Read Chapter
5. Who said or
wrote
this,
and to whom?
1 A b
eautifullady
smiled at me and
shook
my hand '
2 There
is
a
new
visitor
to
see you
today.
3 '1
often
read
about
you
in
the newspapers. '
4 'I m happy every hour of the da y'
5 1 do like visiting you very much .
6 It is th e best thing in rny
room,
the very be
st
...
Read Chapters 6 and 7.
Here
are sorne
untrue
sentences
about
them.
Change
them
into true sentences.
1
Merrick
often
went
out of
th
e hospital by himself.
2
Merrick thou
ght and played like aman.
3
Merrick wa
s very pleased with
the bad man
in the play.
4
Merrick
did
not
like stay
ing
in
the
co untry.
5
Me r
rick usually slept on his back.
6 Nobody was sorry when the Elephant
Man
died.
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1
AC T
I VIT I ES
fter
Reading
Can you
find
the
eleven words
from the story hidden
in this
word
search? Words go from left to right,
and
from
top
to
bottom.
N
V
F
I S H
K
w
D
p
u F L
o
D
o
e
T
o
R
R
G
H D T S D K
G
L
S D e
y
D
p
E u R F
E
V
o
J
F
I
N G E
R
S
Q
u H
K
T
E L R
1
S
z N w R A G
y p
E
w V T G G L M T F N
B
I R D S H M K
y
D
Q
E
y
J
Q
u
E E N
S
Now use ten of the words from the
word
search to
complete this passage.
J
oseph
Merrick,
the
Elephant Man,
lived in
the
Lond on
H e
was
a very
man
but
most
of
th
e
liked him. Alexandra was one o f his One
summcr he
staye
d in a ha use in
the
He saw
in a strea m, and talked to nda 'H e was very
h
appy there,' Treves
said.
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2
T
IV ITI
fter eading
Here is a conversation
between
Dr Tr eves and the new
nurse
(see pages 17 and 18 ). The
conversatio
n is
in
the
wrong order. Write
it out
in
the
correct
arder
and put in the
speakers' names .
The
nurse speaks first (
number
2).
Y
es . I
sta
rted
wo
rk this
morni
ng .'
2 D r
Treves,
DrTreves Hel
p
'
3
1
dropped his food on the fl
oor
and ran out. I
was afra
i
d.
Is
he
very i ?'
4 Oh , do ctor,
there's
a
horribl
e crea tu re
in Mr
Mer
r
ick's
room '
5 What's
th
e matter, nurse? Why are
you
s
cr
e
aming?'
6
A
right, doctor. Thank you.'
7 T hat
's Mr Merrick,
nurse H e looks like t
hat.
W h
at
d id you do in
the
room?'
8 lt's got
an
eno rmous head with
an
ele ph ant's
too th in its mouth, and a
big
ho rri ble arm '
9 No, Mr
Me
rrick isn 't ill ,
but
he' s very ugly.
Now
sit clown and listen
tome,
nurse. Ts this your
rst da y here?'
10 '
What does thi
s
horrible
c
reatur
e lo
ok
like?'
11 We ll, don't be
afraid
of
Mr
M errick. He isn't
horri b le. H e's a nice, kind man. Now go back in that
room,
and
talk ro him. All right?'
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CTI
VITl ES: fter Reading
3 Here is a new illustr ation for the sto ry. Find the best place
in the story to put the picture , and answer these ques tions.
Th e pictur e goes
on
page _ _ .
Where is the Elepha
nt
M an goi
ng in
th
is
p ictu re?
2 W here was he befare this?
3 W hat happened to hi m w hen he arr ived?
Now wri
te
a
captio
n
for the
illust ration.
Caption:
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CTIVITlES: After Reading
4 He re is a newspaper story about the Elephant Man. Use the
link ing word s bel
ow
to complete the story.
U
se sorne
of
the
w
ord
s
more
th
an onc
e.)
but
and because so when
Last night Joseph Me rri ck, the famous
E
lephant Man ,
d ied .
Merrick
did not ha ve an easy life. His mothcr gave
h im toa
ma
n called
Si
lc
ock
, _ _ Silcock
too
k hi m
from
town to t
ow
n, to make money. _ _ Silcock left him in
Bclgium, Mcrrick came back to England. He was not ill,
e co uld not work, _ _ the London Hosp ital gave
h im a h
ome
. T herc,
pcop
lc were kind to him for the first
time in his life, e had many frie
nd
s.
He
hada
very
ug
ly b
ody,
sa id his fr iend Dr Tr eves,
_ _ we all liked him h
ew
as a good , kind man
.
5 The Elephant M anis a true story. Which of these sentences
do yo u agree (A) or disagree (D ) with? Can you say wh y?
1 It is a vcry sad sto ry.
2 It is asad sto ry, but a ha ppy one too.
3 sep h Merrick s mo
th
er was abad woman, beca use she
gave her
so
n
to
Silcock.
4 Very ugly people, like j oseph M
err
ick, can ncvcr have a
happy life.
5 Doctors and hospita ls can do wonderful things n
ow,
so
peop le 1kcJoseph Merrick don t ha ve unhappy
Ji
ves.
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BOUTTH UTHOR
T im Vica ry is an experienced teacher a
nd
writer,
and
h
as
w
ri t
ten severa]
stor
ies for the Oxford B
oo
k
worm
s Library.
Many of these are in tbe T hriller Adventure series, such as
Whit
e D
ea
th
(at Stage
1
or like
Th e
l
ephant Man
in the
Tr
ue Stories series, such as The
Coldest
Pla ce on a
rth
a lso
at
Stagc 1), which tells
the
story
of
the race
betwe
en Scott and
Amundscn
to
thc Sou
th
Pole.
He
has also published
two
long
no vels,
The Bl
ood upon the Rose and
Cat
and Mou
se.
Tim
Vi cary has two children and keeps
dog
s, cats, and
ho rses. He livcs
and
works in
York
, in the north ofEng
la
nd .
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TARTER
2 5 0
H
EADWO
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prcsc
nt
si
mp
l
e -
p resent
continuo
us - impcrat iv
e
canlcannot, must - go g to future - sim ple gcrunds ...
H er p honc is
ringing
- but where is it?
Sa
lly gets ou t of bed a
nd look
s in her
bag
. N o
phone
. She
loo ks und er the bed .
No phon
e. T hen shc looks behind the
door.
There
is her phone. Sally picks up her phone and
a
ns we
rs it. Sally s Phone
S T
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I 4 0 0 HE
ADWORDS
... pasr si mple -
coo
rdinarion wirh and, but, or
subordinarion wirh
befare, a(ter, when, beca use, so ...
I knew him
in
Persi a . He was a famo us
build
er and I
worked
with
him
there .
For
a
time
I was hi s
friend,
but
n
ot
for long. When he carne to Pars, I came after him -
I wanred to watch hi m.
He
wa s a very clever, very
da ngerou s man. ThePhantomoftheOpera
STAGE 2 7 0 0 HEADWORDS
...
presem
perfecr -will furure) - (don't) haueto, mustnot, could
comparison
of adjecrives-
simple i(
l
a uses- pasr co
nt
inuous
tag
quesrions -
ask tell
infinirive
..
.
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was writ
i
ngthese words
in my d iary, Idec
id
ed what
to do. I must try to escape. I shall
tr
y to get down the wa ll
outside.
Th e window is
high
above the ground , but I ha ve
to
tr
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orne
of
th
e
go
ld wi th me - if I
escape,
perha ps
it
wi ll be
helpfullater
.
Dracula
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STAGE 3 I OOO HEAD
WORDS
... should, may - present perfecr
conrinuous-
used to - pasr perfcct
causa ive - relative ela
uses-
ind
irecr srar
cments
. . .
Of course
, it
was
m
ost
important
that no one should
see
Co
lin,
Mary
,
or
Dic
ko
n enter i
ng
thc sccrct g
ard
en. So
Col
n
gave orders
to
the gardeners
that
they mu
st
a
l
keep away
from that part of the garden in future. The Secret Carden
STAGE
4
[4 0 0
HEADWORDS
. . . pas r perfect conrinuous - passive s imple forms
would condiri
onal
clauses - indircct quesr ion
s -
relarives wirh wherelwhen- gerunds afrer preposit ions/phrases . ..
1
was
glad. Now H yde could not show h is faceto
the wo
rld
again.
f
he did, every honest
ma
n in London
wo
uld be proud
ro
repo
rt him to
th
e police.
Dr j eky ll
and
Mr Hyde
STAGE 5
T8oo H E
ADWORDS
.. . futurc
continu
ous- future
perfect
passivc modals, continuous forms)-
would haue condicional elauses - modals pcr fect in fin it
ive
...
lf he had spokcn Estella s name, I wou ld have hit him . I was so
angry with
hi
m, and so depressed about my futurc, that I could
not eat the breakfast. Instead I went straight ro thc old house.
Great Ex
pectations
STAGE 6 2 5 0 0 HEADWORD
S
...
passive infinirives, gcrunds) - advanced moda l mcanings
elauses
of
concession, con dirion
When l stepped up to rhe piano, l was confident. Ir was as if I
knew that the prodigy side of me really did cxist. And when I
started ro play, I was so caught up in how lovely I looked tha t
I
didn t worr
y how I would sound. The]oy Luck
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I
ES
STAGE
Ned Kelly: A True Story
CH Rl ST l NE LI
NDOP
Wh en he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a
young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to
steal horses, he learnt how to ght , he
learn
t how to live- ou t side
the law. Australia in the 1870s was a
hard,
wild place. Rich people
had land , p
oor
peop le d id nt. So t hc rich got richcr, and rhe poo r
stayed poor.
Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good
man
but
thc l
aw
was
bad. This
is thc truc story of Australi
a s most
f
amo
us o utlaw .
BOOKWORMS F NT SY HORROR STAGE
The
On ega
Files
Short Stories
J
ENNIFER BASSETT
In EDI (the European
Department
of Intclligcnce Brussels)
rhere are some very secret
fil
es - the Omega Files. Th ere are
st range, surp rising, and sometimes horrible stories in these
fi
les,
but not many people know about them. You never read about
them in thc ncwspapers.
Hawk
er a
nd
Judc
know
a
ll
abo ut the
Om
ega Files, bccause
they work for ED I. Th ey think fast, thcy mov e fast, and they learn
somc very st range things. T hcy go all over thc wor ld, asking
difficult q uest ions in dangerous places, but they
don t
always find
rhe answcrs ...
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