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Introduction and Chapter 1 8 Complete these ideas. While reading Quasimodo is as ugly as ……… 1 Who’s who? He’s as strong as ……… Write down the names of the three most 9 Write. important people in the story and write some Write a description of Sachette, the witch. words about them. Add information as you go 10 What’s love? on reading. Write words with the letters of the word LOVE and make a poem: ……L…… ……O…… ……V…… 2 Pair work: What did they say? ……E…… Work with another student. You are at the Place 11 What happened first? Number the sentences de Grève. Imagine the conversation before the 1–9. play begins and write it down. a A man shouted at Esmeralda. 3 Make a programme. b A man stopped the play. Make the programme for the play. Imagine the c Esmeralda married Gringoire. names of the actors and actresses. d Gringoire found the City of Thieves. 4 Write an article for the newspaper. e Gringoire followed Esmeralda and saw two You’re a reporter and you were at the Place de men attack her. Grève. Write an article including the people’s f In the evening, Esmeralda started dancing. activities, their clothes and their opinions. g People chose the Pope of Fools. 5 Complete. h People took Quasimodo around the city. It’s good for Quasimodo not to hear because … i People went to the Place de Grève to see a play. It’s bad for Quasimodo not to hear because … Chapter 2 6 Stories about Quasimodo. 12 Read page 14 again and answer the ‘Why’ Write different terrible stories about him. Listen questions at the bottom of the page. to the stories written by other students. You can 13 Mahiette and Oudarde. vote for the best story. What is their life like? Write about a typical day 7 Write their words. in their lives. Compare the two ladies. What are they thinking? 14 Write. You are Mahiette. Write down your feelings after you saw the flogging and Esmeralda help Quasimodo. 15 Match each name (a–g) with two descriptions from the box (1–14). 1 gypsy 2 alone and sad 3 goat 4 kind and beautiful 5 priest 6 handsome 7 bell-ringer 8 magical 9 writer 10 deaf and ugly 11 soldier 12 wants money 13 witch 14 patient and clever (a) Pierre Gringoire (b) Quasimodo (c) Esmeralda (d) Djali (e) Sachette (f) Claude Frollo (g) Phoebus de Châteaupers
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Chapter 3 20 Role play. 16 Fleur de Lys’s house. Work with another student and have the Write a short description of her house. conversation below: 17 Pair work. A: You are Esmeralda. Make plans to meet Continue the conversation between Fleur de Lys Phoebus. and Phoebus. B: You are Phoebus. Invite Esmeralda to s secret 18 Complete their words. What are they meeting. thinking? Chapter 4 21 Write. You’re Esmeralda. Phoebus is ill in hospital. Write a letter to him. 22 Artwork: Writing on the wall. Esmeralda is in prison. Imagine the walls. What messages are there on the wall? Write them down. 23 Pair work: What are they saying? Work with another student. Fleur-de-Lys is watching Esmeralda. What does she think she is saying to the priest? What does she think Father Frollo is telling Esmeralda? Write their conversation. 24 Pair work: Write in your diary. Pair work. Student A: You’re Esmeralda Quasimodo has saved your life and you live in the tower. Write your thoughts and feelings. Student B: You’re Quasimodo and you keep a diary. You’ve saved Esmeralda’s life. Write your thoughts and feelings. Now compare what you have written. Chapter 5 25 Write. 19 Compare Frollo and Quasimodo, using the Write a newspaper article describing the attack words in the box. Some words may not be on Notre-Dame. right for either of them. 26 Read carefully. young rich intelligent simple big Read the chapter again and make a list of words ugly patient lonely careful used to describe Father Frollo. dangerous sad handsome After reading 27 The ending. FROLLO QUASIMODO Do you like the ending? Change it as you prefer. 28 The movies. Watch different film versions of the novel and compare them to this novel. Which one do you prefer? Why?
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1 Are the following right (3) or wrong (7)? 5 Who? Fleur-de-Lys, Phoebus, Frollo, Esmeralda, a Victor Hugo wrote Notre-Dame when he was an Djali, Pierre, Sachette. old man. a ……… wrote “Phoebus” on the ground. b He married before he wrote his first complete book. b ……… hates gypsy women. c Pierre Gringoire is a young, rich man. c ……… kissed Esmeralda twice. d Quasimodo is famous because he’s ugly. d ……… is going to get married. e Gringoire has paid for his apartment. e ……… was in the tower looking at Esmeralda. f There’s a king in the City of Thieves. f ……… danced beautifully. g Gringoire is in love with Esmeralda. 6 Complete with the words in the box. There are h Esmeralda is as bad as the thieves she lives with. 17 words but you can only use 15. 2 Choose the right words. black clothes gypsies hotel kill knife a The Christmas Season (starts/finishes) on love murderer pain prison river sanctuary January 6th. soldier sorcerer that torture witch b The party is held at (Great Hall/Place de Grève). c The play starts (at 12/in the afternoon). Pierre and the ………… are worried because they d People (loved/hated) the play. haven’t seen Esmeralda. She’s in Tournell, a ………… e (Gringoire/Quasimodo) hit Esmeralda. for criminals because people say she’s a ………… f (Frollo/Phoebus) helped her. Madame Faloudel, the owner of a …………, says g If the poet gets married, he (will/won’t) die. Esmeralda killed Phoebus with a ………… . She also h Esmeralda saved Gringoire because she (loved him/ saw a man in ………… drop from the window into was good). the ………… . She ran upstairs with the King’s Guard 3 Match the questions and the answers. and saw Esmeralda with her ………… half off. She a Why was Frollo evil for some people? thought Esmeralda worked together with the man b Why did people not want to see Quasimodo? ………… she saw, who was a ………… . c Why was Quasimodo at court? Esmeralda said she didn’t ………… Phoebus, so the d Why did the judge punish Quasimodo? Judge decided she needed ………… . The ………… e Why did the woman bring a cake to Sachette? was terrible so she finally confessed she did it. Frollo f Why was Sachette unhappy? visited her and told her that his ………… for her was g Why were people afraid of the gypsies? terrible for him, that’s why he killed Phoebus. 1 Because he was ugly and evil. Esmeralda said he was the ………… . 2 Because they were different. 7 Correct the mistakes. There’s one in each sentence. 3 Because he didn’t really understand him. a Father Frollo met Phoebus and told him about a 4 Because she didn’t have her baby. plan to take Esmeralda from the church. 5 Because he attacked a guard. b The soldiers attacked Notre-Dame. 6 Because he helped Quasimodo. c Pierre and Quasimodo took Esmeralda to a boat. 7 Because she was sorry for her. d Esmeralda didn’t prefer death to Frollo. 4 What happened first? Number the sentences 1 to 8. e Esmeralda met her father. a Esmeralda helped Quasimodo. f Phoebus tried to protect Esmeralda. b Frollo became a priest. g The hangman was happy when he killed Esmeralda. c Quasimodo attacked a guard. h Phoebus killed Father Frollo. d Quasimodo became the bell-ringer. i Gringoire became poorer. e Quasimodo couldn’t hear any more. j Phoebus became rich and happy. f Quasimodo was abandoned. k Frollo died together with Esmeralda. g Quasimodo was taken to court. h The judge ordered flogging.
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