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Before reading activities (page 44)
check their own guesses as they read. The best
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answers are:
Activity 1 before reading
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Activity 2 before reading
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Encourage students to speculate and to make
chApter 4 while reading
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guesses but do not tell them the answers. They will
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find out as they read that the only ‘no’ answer is
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In all these activities it may be useful to help
chApter 5 while reading
students to clarify which Allegra is which:
1 The mother of the Italian Allegra (Allegra Three), to
2 Adrian to the mother of the Italian Allegra (Allegra
Allegra Three = The Italian family’s daughter
3 Adrian to Allegra the ghost (Allegra One).
chApter 1 while reading
4 Allegra the ghost (Allegra One) to Adrian.
5 Allegra the ghost (Allegra One) to her mother,
2 F Adrian and his parents were on holiday in
Italy.
3 F Margaret Henderson was
English.
chApter 6 while reading
1 The doctor said that the third Allegra was going to
5 F Adrian
woke up in the night.
2 Adrian married an
Italian girl.
7 F Allegra said that her mother was
a long way
3 Adrian and his wife had a baby
girl.
4 Adrian’s child
speaks English
(and Italian).
5 Adrian’s daughter is
a happy child.
9 F Adrian
saw somebody in the next bedroom.
Additional questions:
chApter 2 while reading
1
Who . . .? Allegra Henderson (Allegra Two)
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Who . . .? Adrian3
Where . . .? Bagno a Ripoli
4
Where . . .? In England5
Who . . .? Allegra Henderson (Allegra Two)
Activity 1 after reading
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Who . . .? Allegra the ghost (Allegra One)
1+12 2+8 3+14 4+10 5+11 6+13 7+9Claire Clairmont’s daughter, Allegra, died in 1822,
but
chApter 3 while reading
her ghost lived in the body of Allegra Henderson. She
was unhappy
because she wanted to be with her mother.
She wanted to go to Bagno a Ripoli
but she couldn’t get there alone. So she came to Adrian’s room at night
4 The daughter of the Italian family that Adrian was
and asked him for help.
When Allegra Henderson died,
the ghost went to live in the body of the Italian family’s
Allegra. Then the third Allegra became ill too,
but
Adrian knew how to help her. He took the ghost Allegra to Bagno a Ripoli
and she found her mother there.
oxford bookworms library stage 2
the mystery of allegra
Activity 2 after reading
Activity 6 after reading
They say that ghosts are
dead people who cannot
rest.
Chiara Henderson’s daughter was called Allegra,
They are usually
unhappy. Ghosts come at
night; they
but she was often sad. She was tall and pale and she
often
wear white clothes, and they are
cold when you
had
brown eyes and long
black hair. She could speak
touch them. They can come into a
room when the door
English and Italian but she couldn’t say the letter ‘r’. She
and windows are
locked. When they leave, you don’t
see
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was born on January 21st and she died on April 21st,
where they go. People are often
afraid of ghosts.
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Activity 7 after reading
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Open answers. Encourage discussion.
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The Italian family’s daughter was called Allegra, but
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she was often sad. She was tall and pale and she had
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brown eyes and long
brown hair. She was born on
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January 21st
and she went to hospital on April 20th
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because she was ill but she didn’t die on April 21st,
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Adrian’s daughter was called Allegra,
and she was a
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a
happy child. She was tall and pale and she had
greeneyes and long
black hair. She could speak English and Italian but she couldn’t say the letter ‘r’. She was born on January 21st
but she wasn’t ill and she didn’t dieon April 21st, when she was five years old.
Activity 3 after reading
Possible answers:
ClAire: You must let me see Allegra. Why did you
send her to that terrible convent school?
Byron: Because
it’s good for her.
ClAire: No, it isn’t. I’m sure that
she is cold and
lonely there. I’m going to take her away.
Byron: Well, you can’t. I’ve told the nuns
that they
ClAire: You’re so unkind. I’m Allegra’s mother. And I
Byron: How
do you know that she’s ill?ClAire: I
had a dream about her. I think that she’s
Byron: Of course she
isn’t going to die.
ClAire: You don’t love her! You don’t want her with
you, so why
can’t she be with her mother?
Byron: Because she must
stay in the convent.
Activity 4 after reading
The picture goes on page 36.
1 Adrian and the ghost Allegra (Allegra One).
2 To Bagno a Ripoli.
3 Because Adrian wants to take the ghost Allegra
(Allegra One) to her mother and make the Italian family’s Allegra (Allegra Three) get well.
Lines taken from the text on page 36 would make
suitable captions, for example:
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‘Are you going to take me to Mamà?’
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‘We’re going to Bagno a Ripoli.’
Activity 5 after reading
Open answers. Encourage discussion.
oxford bookworms library stage 2
the mystery of allegra
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