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I ffiffi Worl< in pairs. lmagine you and a group of friends 6 ffi"fr,'ffi Discuss the questions. Justify your opinions.
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were marooned on a sma[[ island in the middte of the ocean.
1 Do you thinkthat a group of twelve-year-old boys is likety
Discuss the questions.
to behave in the way described in the extract?
1 What would you do in order to: (a) survive? (b) Set rescued? 2 lf teft to their own devices, do you think a group of
2 What rules, if any, woutd you establish? How woutd you twelve-year-old boys is capable of living peacefully with
agree on them? one another?
2 Read the extract from Lord of the flies by Wittiam Golding,
ignoring the gaps. Answer the questions.
A group ofboys
1 Where are the boys and how did they get there?
have been marooned
2 Why is Ratph angry at the start of the extract?
on a desert island,
3 What was the purpose of the fire?
4 Whose responsibitity was it to keep the fire going? following a plane
5 What was jacl< doing instead of looking after the fire? crash, and are
5 How does he justify his behaviour?
waiting to be rescued.
7 Who had the boys chosen as their leader?
In this extract Jack
8 What possession of Piggy's did Jacl< break?
9 Who hetps Piggy to find his glasses? and Ralph, strong
10 What does Jack apotogise for? characters who both
want to be leader of
3 fUatch the sentences (a-h) with the gaps (r-7) in the extract.
There is one sentence thatyou do not need. the group, come into
a Piggy grabbed and put on the glasses. conJlict.
b He took a step, and abte at last to hit someone, stucl< his
fist into Piggy's stomach. 1
Ralph flung back his hair. One arm pointed at the
c Jack turned to Piggy and apologised for his cruel
empty horizon. His voice was loud and savage, and
behaviour.
struck them into silence.
d They might have seen us.
'There was a shipi
e They waited for an appropriately decent answer.
f He went on scrambling and the laughter rose to a gate of 5 )ack, faced at once with too many awful implications,
hysterialo. ducked away from them. He laid a hand on the pig
g Jackwas loud and active.
and drew his knife. Ralph brought down his arm, fist
h Then his voice came again on a peak of feeting.
clenched, and his voice shook.
4 Exptain in your own words these sentences from the text. 'There was a ship. Out there! You said youd keep the
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1 The dismal truth was fittering through to everybody. fire going and you let it out!' He took a step towards
(tine 23) |ack, who turned and faced him.
2 There was the briltiant world of hunting, tactics, fierce 'r I We might have gone home - '
exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and
This was too bitter for Piggy, who forgot his timidity
baffted common-sense. (line 32)
in the agony of his loss. He began to cry out, shrilly:
3 He resented, as an addition to Jack's misbehaviour, this
ls 'You and your blood, |ack Merridew! You and your
verbaI trick. (tine 84)
4 By the time the pite was buitt, they were on different huntingl We might have gone home -'
sides of a high barrier. (tine 105) Ralph pushed Piggy on one side.
'I was chief; and you were going to do what I said. You
5 Find examples of the fottowing behaviour in the text:
talk. But you cant even build huts - then you go off
1 Jack's viotence and aggressiveness.
20 hunting and let out the fire -'
2 )acl<'scruetty. 2[
3 Ratph's indecision. He turned away, silent for a moment.
4 Piggy's defiance. 'There was a ship - '
5 Ralph's inflexibitity. One of the smaller hunters began to wail.I The dismal'?
6 Simon's concern for others.
truth was filtering through to everybody. Iack went
7 the hunters' quickty changing moods.

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