Reading

Mary goes to the gardens and walks round them. It is a cold winter day and she is wearing a long coat and a hat. ‘Why is Mrs Craven’s garden shut?’ she thinks. ‘What’s inside? It’s a secret…

Reading pictures - Colin

Look at the picture and talk about the following questions. Where is Mary? Who is sitting behind the desk? What objects can you see in the picture? Describe their position in the room.

Before You Read - The Tin Woodman and the Lion

The Tin Woodman and the Lion

My holidays

Reading

On the 28th June we started our descent into the crater. It was like a large cone – wide at the top and narrower at the bottom. It seemed about 2,000 feet deep. Hans didn’t take us down the crater…

Internet Project

In the original version of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift printed maps to show where the imaginary islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu were. He did this to make his book seem more realistic. At the…

The Aesthetic Movement - The Aesthetic Movement

The long reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) was a period of great change. Victorian artists experienced a new world shaped by the Industrial Revolution, which brought about profound social, moral and…

Phrasal verbs

‘He could get away with it.’ Look at this sentence from Chapter Nine: ‘He could get away with it.’ To get away with something is a phrasal verb which means ‘to not suffer punishment when you…

Scrooge

Scrooge

Internet project

Let’s find some more information about some of the places described in the dossier London in Dickens’ Time.