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Student’s activities 1

The Ring 2

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Students can do these exercises alone or with one or more
other students. Pair/group-only exercises are marked. 5

Activities before reading the book 6

Work in pairs. Look through the pictures in the book. (d) Manuel smoked a cigarette.
Find these things in at least one picture. (e) Manuel went cold. PRE-
a boat shed (f) Manuel went into the water to do something with
INTERMEDIATE
a cassette the nets.
a doctor (g) Manuel went white.
a fishing net (h) Something happened to the nets.
a knife (i) Suddenly a shark attacked Manuel.
a paraffin lamp (j) The men put a shirt round the top of Manuel’s
a rope legs.
a shark (k) The other men pulled Manuel into the boat.
a spear (l) The shark bit off one of Manuel’s legs.
rocks 4 Match each adjective with a noun to make phrases
from Chapter 3.
(a) beautiful (i) books
Activities while reading the book
(b) village (iii) boys
Chapters 1–4 (c) small (iii) brothers and sisters
1 Match each person (a–f) from Chapter 1 with a (d) good (iv) child
description (i–vi). (e) picture (v) fisherman
(a) Rafael (f) story (vi) girl
(b) Miguel (g) little (vii) magazines
(c) Anita (h) big (viii) plans
(d) Rodrigo (i) poor (ix) story
(e) Clara (j) another (x) town
(f) Pablo (k) long and strange (xi) village
(i) He is the narrator’s younger brother.
5 Work in pairs. Tell the story of Chapter 3. Use
(ii) He is a mad man.
phrases from Exercise 6.
(iii)He is the shopkeeper.
6 These sentences about the information in Chapter 4
(iv)He is the narrator’s uncle.
are not correct. Find the mistakes and correct them.
(v) She is a young, beautiful girl.
(a) Anita was two years older than Rafael.
(vi)She is Rafael’s mother.
(b) The soldier’s name was Carl.
2 Who, in Chapter 1 … (c) He fought in America and many other places.
(a) had a terrible secret? (d) He had a small boat with a sail.
(b) told their stories to the narrator? (e) He saw Anita telling a story to a group of
(c) lied to the narrator? fishermen.
(d) saw Rafael in the boat-house? (f) Soon the soldier came twice a week, on
(e) had long hair and a beard? Tuesdays and Sundays.
(f) threw stones at Rafael? (g) The soldier was a stranger and people didn’t like
(g) lives in the house at the end of the village? him.
(h) called to the narrator to help him? (h) He bought Miguel a cassette player but they had
(i) studied to be a doctor? nor electricity in the village so he couldn’t use it.
(j) did the narrator find on the beach when he went (i) One day Rodrigo found his daughter in her bed,
back 12 years later? cold and dead.
3 Put in order the story of Manuel’s death from (j) Rodrigo was angry because Anita’s clothes and
Chapter 2. favourite things weren’t there.
(a) Manuel became weak and sleepy. (k) Miguel watched the soldier go out to his boat with
(b) Manuel fell asleep and his heart stopped. Anita.
(c) Manuel said to Rafael, ‘Be a good son. Help your (l) Rafael went mad because Anita went away with
mother.’ the soldier.

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Student’s activities
Chapters 5–12 (c) Anita sometimes met the soldier in the same
place that she met Rafael.
1 What strange things happened on the night that
Anita disappeared? (d) Anita’s ‘true prince’ was the soldier.
2 Complete these sentences about the information in (e) Anita was wearing the gold fish ring when she
Chapter 6. Use a word from the box in each left.
sentence. (f) Anita gave the fish ring back to Rafael and told
him about her plans.
anchor animal beach boat cassette (g) Rafael went mad because she didn’t come back.
clothes coast donkey engine meal music (h) Marta wrote a story about a magic ring
noise paraffin player ring rocks shop Chapters 13–15
song stories village
1 Work in pairs. The doctor asks himself some
(a) The soldier arrived in his … in the early questions in Chapter 13, but cannot find a good
afternoon. answer for any of them. Complete his answers.Then
(b) He lowered his … a few metres from the shore. check with the information in Chapter 13.
(c) He didn’t pull his boat onto the … . (a) Did Rafael kill someone? Who did he kill?
(d) He didn’t want to break the … . Not the soldier because …
(e) He went to Rodrigo’s … . Not Anita because …
(f) He had a big can of … for Rodrigo’s new lamp. (b) If the soldier was killed, who killed him?
(g) He had a … with Rodrigo. Not Rafael because …
(h) He came to the café and told lots of funny … . Not Anita because …
(i) Rafael came into the café in his best … . (c) If Anita was killed, who killed her?
(j) Suddenly the soldier took a … from his pocket. Not Rafael because …
(k) Miguel took it and put it in the … . If the soldier killed her, why …
(l) It was a love … . 2 Work in groups. The doctor thinks of someone to
(m)The soldier went at about ten o’clock and they explain all the information. Who does he think of?
heard the … of his engine. What does he think happened? Why, in the end,
(n) Rafael stood up and started to dance to the … . does he decide this is also impossible? Check your
(o) The next morning the news about Anita went answers with the chapter.
round the … like fire. 3 Put in order these events from the murder (Chapter
(p) Rafael went down the … in his boat to look for 14 and 15).
her. (a) Anita stopped meeting Rafael.
(q) Santiago couldn’t find his … and said Anita took (b) Rafael gave Anita the gold ring.
it. (c) Rafael killed Santiago’s donkey, cut it up and put
(r) Some fishermen found Rafael in the afternoon in the pieces in the sea near the high rocks.
a quiet place near the high … . (d) Rafael made a plan to kill the soldier.
(s) He was like a mad … . (e) Rafael saw Anita meeting the soldier in secret at
(t) He had the gold … on a fishing line round his a special place near the high rocks.
neck. (f) Rafael tied the donkey’s back legs to the soldier’s
3 Which of these adjectives and phrases does Marta boat.
use to describe Anita in Chapter 8. (g) Rafael went to the café and saw the soldier there.
• always in trouble • lazy (h) That Sunday, the soldier arrived at the village.
• angry • fingernails (i) The soldier came to the village.
• beautiful • lucky
• clear voice • never helped
• clever • never worked Activities after reading the book
• full of stories • proud
• happy • strange and silly Work in groups. Did you work out the answer before the
• in love • ideas end of the story? When did you work it out?
• kind • terrible
• long and pink • very good child
4 Are these sentences about the information in
Chapter 9 true or false or we don’t know?
(a) Anita stayed with her parents that night and
talked to the soldier.
(b) Anita took things out of her box and put them in a
bag.

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Factsheet written by Terry Philips
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F act sheet s eri es de vel oped by L ouise J ames