IIListening activities

1.Find a word, a word combination or a sentence which has the similar meaning.

1.1It was one Sunday I remember when we had a lot of boring visitors during the afternoon.

1.2I didn’t want him to think that I could disappoint him.

1.3We’ll keep this in secret.

1.4I began to panic about my dress ball costume.

1.5The great day began, misty and overcast.

1.6“You’ll never take her place. She’s still mistress here.”

2.Complete the sentences.

2.1Why do they all stand…

2.2I looked about me…

2.3I shall never forget the expression on her face…

2.4Last night had shown me too well…

2.5As I relaxed my hand and sighed…

III PostListening Activities

Speak on.

1.Preparations for a fancy dress ball.

2.The Manderley ball is a high moment of tension.

3.Comment on the narrator’s words “This was her (Mrs. Danvers’) triumph and Rebecca’s”.

4.Mrs. Danvers’ effort to drive the narrator to the point of suicide. Jump is a major turning point in the story.

SECTION V

Maxim’s Confession

•Rebecca’s body is discovered

I Pre-Listening Activities

Read and find the meanings of the words and word combinations in the dictionary.

Something unforeseen the stranded ship to be intact to be dissolved (about the body) the loss of a limb to be aloof vicious damnable rotten through and through precipice bargain leg-pull

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