Pride and Prejudice Lesson 4

Worksheets

Task  1      Talk  to  your  colleagues  and,  if  possible,  find  at  least  one  person  that  can  answer  Yes  to  each  
question.    
 
 
Question   Name     Comments  
1. When  you  read  a  book,  can      
you  imagine  what  the  
characters  look  like?  
2. When  you  read  a  book,  can      
you  visualise  the  places  the  
writer  describes?  
3. Have  you  ever  watched  a  play      
based  on  a  book?  
4. Have  you  ever  watched  a  film      
based  on  a  book?  
5. Have  you  ever  watched  a  film      
version  of  Pride  and  
Prejudice?  
 
 
 
Task  2      What  are  the  main  ideas  in  the  paragraph  below?  Rewrite  it  in  your  own  words.  
 
In  literature,  novelists  tend  to  use  dialogue  as  one  of  several  techniques  with  which  to  
express  a  character’s  outlook  on  the  world  and  to  show  us  how  they  are  thinking.  Jane  
Austen’s  use  of  dialogue  has  long  been  regarded  as  one  of  her  most  significant  creative  
achievements  and  Pride  and  Prejudice  is  a  striking  example  of  how  she  captures  
conversations  that  are  humorous,  happy,  sad,  unkind  and  generous.  She  uses  these  
conversations  to  illustrate  the  themes  of  her  novels  and  also  she  records  a  sense  of  how  
people  would  have  spoken  to  each  other  two  hundred  years  ago.  Some  of  the  ways  they  
spoke  might  be  different  to  how  we  speak  English  today  but  in  other  ways  we  might  be  able  
to  identify  many  similarities.    
Clarke,  J.  (2013)  
 
 
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Task  3      Read  the  dialogues  and  complete  the  tables.    
 
Extract  A  
 
"Come,  Darcy,"  said  he,  "I  must  have  you  dance.  I  hate  to  see  you  standing  about  by  yourself  in  this  
stupid  manner.  You  had  much  better  dance."    
"I  certainly  shall  not.  You  know  how  I  detest  it,  unless  I  am  particularly  acquainted  with  my  partner.  
At  such  an  assembly  as  this  it  would  be  insupportable.  Your  sisters  are  engaged,  and  there  is  not  
another  woman  in  the  room  whom  it  would  not  be  a  punishment  to  me  to  stand  up  with."    
 
Place  where  it  happens   Speakers   What  is  the  situation?  What  do  the  
characters  mean?  
   
  Charles Bingley Mr Bingley thinks Mr Darcy
  should dance.
 
  Mr Darcy…
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extract  B  
 
"To  walk  three  miles,  or  four  miles,  or  five  miles,  or  whatever  it  is,  above  her  ankles  in  dirt,  and  alone,  
quite  alone!  What  could  she  mean  by  it?  It  seems  to  me  to  show  an  abominable  sort  of  conceited  
independence,  a  most  country-­‐town  indifference  to  decorum."    
"It  shows  an  affection  for  her  sister  that  is  very  pleasing,"  said  Bingley.    
"I  am  afraid,  Mr  Darcy,"  observed  Miss  Bingley  in  a  half  whisper,  "that  this  adventure  has  rather  
affected  your  admiration  of  her  fine  eyes."    
"Not  at  all,"  he  replied;  "they  were  brightened  by  the  exercise."    
 
Place  where  it  happens   Speakers   What  is  the  situation?  What  do  the  
characters  mean?  
     
A room at    
Netherfield  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
 
 
Extract  C  
 
"All  young  ladies  accomplished!  My  dear  Charles,  what  do  you  mean?"    
"Yes,  all  of  them,  I  think.  They  all  paint  tables,  cover  screens,  and  net  purses.  I  scarcely  know  anyone  
who  cannot  do  all  this,  and  I  am  sure  I  never  heard  a  young  lady  spoken  of  for  the  first  time,  without  
being  informed  that  she  was  very  accomplished."    
"Your  list  of  the  common  extent  of  accomplishments,"  said  Darcy,  "has  too  much  truth.  The  word  is  
applied  to  many  a  woman  who  deserves  it  no  otherwise  than  by  netting  a  purse  or  covering  a  screen.  
But  I  am  very  far  from  agreeing  with  you  in  your  estimation  of  ladies  in  general.  I  cannot  boast  of  
knowing  more  than  half-­‐a-­‐dozen,  in  the  whole  range  of  my  acquaintance,  that  are  really  
accomplished."  …  
 
"Then,"  observed  Elizabeth,  "you  must  comprehend  a  great  deal  in  your  idea  of  an  accomplished  
woman."    
Yes,  I  do  comprehend  a  great  deal  in  it."  …"All  this  she  must  possess,"  added  Darcy,  "and  to  all  this  
she  must  yet  add  something  more  substantial,  in  the  improvement  of  her  mind  by  extensive  
reading."    
"I  am  no  longer  surprised  at  your  knowing  only  six  accomplished  women.  I  rather  wonder  now  at  
your  knowing  any."    
 
Place  where  it  happens   Speakers   What  is  the  situation?  What  do  the  
characters  mean?  
     
A room at    
Netherfield  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Task  4      Look  at  the  extracts  again.  What  do  the  underlined  words  mean?  Write  their  meaning  near  
the  text  or  on  your  notebook.  

Homework  
If  you  could  produce/direct  a  film  production  of  Pride  &  Prejudice…  
• Which  actors  would  you  choose  to  play  the  main  characters?  
• Which  setting  would  you  choose?  
• Which  scene  would  you  choose  for  the  trailer?    

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Materials by Chris Lima