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3 Read pages 49 to 53. Complete the summary using the correct
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form of the verbs in the box.
speak happen be know take fi ght imprison want die

One night in 1757, Doctor Manette is 1) to a house to help
a young woman who is very ill. There is also a young boy in a room in the
outhouses who is 2) from a knife wound. The house belongs
to the Marquis of Evrémonde. He and his brother have 3) very
cruel to the young boy’s family. The boy tries to 4) the marquis
but the marquis stabs him with a knife. That night both the woman and the
boy die. The marquis tells Doctor Manette that he must not 5)
about what has happened.
Later, the wife of the marquis visits Doctor Manette with her little son Charles.
She 6) to help the young sister of the woman who died but she
doesn’t 7) how. That night, Doctor Manette writes a secret letter
to the government about what has 8) . But the marquis fi nds out.
He burns the letter and the doctor is taken to the Bastille, where he is
9) for many years.

4 Read pages 52 to 53 again. Match the beginnings of the
sentences a to e with their endings 1 to 5.

a) Doctor Manette writes that 1) the younger sister of the woman
one day who died at the marquis’s house.
b) Madame Defarge reveals 2) he will be executed the next day.
that she is
c) Madame Defarge wants 3) the Marquis of Evrémonde and his
revenge family should be punished.
d) Charles Darnay is told that 4) among the crowd.
e) There is no sympathy 5) on the Evrémonde family.

5 Do you think it is fair that Charles Darnay is punished for the
crimes of his father and uncle? Why or why not? Give your
reasons. Write about 100 words in your notebook.

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