7/28/2019 Jane Eyre Students' Handout

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Students handout (intermediate)

1. Watch the beginning and answer the questions:Which questions did the headmistress ask Jane?

Which school rules seemed strange to Jane? Which things wasnt she

used to?

What happened at breakfast time? Which decision did theyheadmistress make?

2. Watch and spot the difference between a school of the 19thcentury andschool nowadays.

3. Listen to the conversation between Jane and her friend and fill in the gaps:

- - Is your book interesting?- - I like it.- - _______________________________ ?There arent any

pictures. I adore_____________________stories with pictures.

- - Why do they call it___________________? Is it differentfrom other schools?

- - Its partly a charity school. You and I are__________________- - Have you been here for long?- - Two years.- - Are you an________________?- - My mother is dead, my father________________again.- - Are you happy here?- - You ask rather too_____________________ . I want to read.

dormitory [ ]

bury [ri]

noble [b()l] ,

]

typhus [fs]

starvation [stn]

apron [prn]

bonnet,

19th century nowadays

childrens clothes

childrens activities in the

garden

the way the educational

process is organised

the way children are/were

punished

7/28/2019 Jane Eyre Students' Handout

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Students handout (intermediate)

4. Watch and mark the sentences as true or false:Many girls died because of the flu at Lowood that spring. ______

Those who were left continued studying. ______

Helen died and was buried in Lowood. ______

Even after many deaths nothing changed in Lowood. ______