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Scarica The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde e più Esercizi in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, in 1850. His parent wanted him to become an engineer like his father, but he studied law at Edinburgh University. In 1875 he passed an exam to become a lawyer, but he never worked as a lawyer: he wanted to become a writer. From when he was a child Stevenson had tuberculosis, and he had serious health problems all his life. For this reason he left the cold, wet weather of Scotland and traveled in France and Spain. On a visit to France in 1876 he met an American woman, Fanny Osbourne. They fell in love, and Stevenson followed her to America, where there were married in 1880 in California, they went to Scotland forever. They went first to America, and then to the South Pacific. Finally, they made their home on one of the islands of Samoa in 1890. There the local people called him ‘Tusitala’, which means ‘story teller’ in the local language. Stevenson’s heath got better, but in 1894 he died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage. He was only forty-four years old. Because of his adventurous life he wrote many travel books, but Stevenson is famous for his fiction. Stevenson always said he wanted to write exciting stories: ’fiction is to grown men what play is to the child’ he said. His adventure stories were famous, and younger readers still enjoy them: examples are Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), set in 18th-century Scotland, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and the book he was still finishing when he died, Weir of Hermiston (published in 1896), show the dark, adult side of Stevenson. 1. Comprehension check Write or say a sentence about each of the following topics: 1. Stevenson as a child and young man His parent wanted him to become an engineer, but he studied law. 2. Stevenson’s travels He traveled in France, Spain and California. 3. Samoa Stevenson end Fanny in finally, they made their home on one of the islands of Samoa in 1890. 4. Stevenson’s health From when he was a child Stevenson had tuberculosis, and he had serious health problems all his life. 5. Love and marriage On a visit to France in 1876 he met an American woman, Fanny Osbourne. 6. Stevenson’s writing Stevenson is famous for his fiction. 2. Reading pictures Look at the photograph on page 5. We don’t know who the woman in the background on the left is, but we know who the others are. Can you guess? Below is a list of the people, but not in the left-to-right order in the photo. Answers are on page 95. 1. 4- Stevenson himself. 2. 2- Stevenson’s mother 3. 6- Stevenson’s wife, Fanny Osbourne 4. 1- The son of Stevenson’s wife 48 5. 3- The daughter of Stevenson’s with 6. 7- The husband of Stevenson’s wife’s daughter 7. 5- The son of Stevenson’s wife daughter and her husband 3. Discussion Do you agree whit Stevenson’s idea ‘fiction is to grown men what play is to the child’? More than 100 years after Stevenson’s death, would you want to replace ‘fiction’ whit another word or phrase (Internet, television, watching sport ,…)? Or perhaps not? Talk about this in groups. 4. Choosing a book The people below are all looking for a book to read. Under them are descriptions of books by Robert Louis Stevenson. Decide which book (letters A-D) would be the most suitable for each person (numbers 1-3). There is one book do not need to use. 1. ❏ Jack is a photographer. His favorite photos are the ones he took of the peoples who live in the jungles of Brazil. He likes reading books that show how people really live. 2. ❏ Helen works in London. She does not like her job: at work, she dreams of relaxing holidays in the country. During the year she likes reading books that remind her of her holidays. 3. ❏ Julia lives in Leeds but she hitchhiked from Maine to Florida. It was not an easy trip, but it was exciting. She enjoys books about difficult journeys. A. In an Inland Voyage, Stevenson describes his journey by canoe from Belgium to northern France. In a leisurely style, he tells us about the people and places he saw, and also about his ideas about life and society. B. The Amateur Emigrant describes Stevenson’s difficult journey across America to reach the reach the woman he loved. After they met in France she returned to California, but Stevenson never forgot her. He describes the joys - and the difficulties - of this romantic journey. C. The Master of Ballantrae is one of Stevenson’s adventure stories. This short novel, set in the United States and Scotland during the mid-1700s, is about two brothers, one good and one evil. On one level it is a simple tale of adventure, but it is also a psychological study of the brothers. D. In the South Seas is a realistic of life in the South Pacific. Stevenson describes the destruction of native cultures by Europeans. His descriptions of European sailors, missionaries and native chiefs from a kind of documentary of an important historical period. INTERNET PROJECT Edinburgh - the festival city Robert Louis Stevenson had a love-hate relationship whit Edinburgh. He criticized it heavily in his book Edinburgh, Picturesque Notes, but he always, missed it deeply when he was away. Edinburgh is now a lively modern city with a fascinating history. It continues to be an extremely interesting centre for culture for culture and the arts. Connect to the internet and go to www.blackcat-cideb.com or www.cideb.it. Insert the title or part of the title of the book into our search engine. Open the page for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and My Hyde. Click on the Internet project link. Go down the page until you find the title of this book and click on the relevant links for this project. • ► Find out about the International Festival in Edinburgh. 1. When is the Edinburgh Festival? 2. How is the end of the season of festivals celebrated? • ► Find out about the Edinburgh Tattoo. 3. What can you watch at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo? 1 ‘I haven’t asked you the name of the man who wrote the cheque. That is because I already know his name.’ THE TEXT AND BEYOND 1. Comprehension check A. These statements about Part One are wrong. Rewrite them correctly. 0. Mr Utterson and Mr Enfield talked about many things during their walks. Mr Utterson and Mr Enfield didn’t say much to each other during their walks. 1. Mr Enfield was frightened because he saw two people in the street. Mr Enfield was frightened because it was late and there was nobody in the street. 2. The little girl and the man ran into Mr Enfield. The little girl and the man ran into each other. 3. The man helped the little girl to get up. The man walked over the little girl. 4. The crowd was angry whit Mr Enfield. The crown was any with the man. 5. The man gave the girl’s family a cheque for one hundred pounds. The man gave the girl’s family a cheque for ninety pounds. 6. The cheque was a forgery. The cheque was real. 7. The man had a key to the door of the old house because he lived there. The man had a key to the door of the old house because he used it very often. 8. Mr Utterson didn’t the name of the man who wrote the cheque. Mr Utterson already knew the name of the man who wrote the cheque. B. Answer the questions. 0. How often did Mr Utterson and Mr Enfield go for walks? Once a week. 1. Did they talk a lot when they went out for walks? No, they didn’t. 2. In Mr Enfield’s story, why weren’t there many people in the street? Because it was winter and it was very late. 3. Why did Mr Enfield hate the man from the moment he saw him? He didn’t know why. 4. How did the man get in the house with the dirty door? He had a key. 5. Who lived there? Mr Enfield didn’t know. 6. Did Mr Utterson know Mr Hyde? No, he didn’t. 2. The characters A. Use your memory only to complete the description of Mr Utterson from the beginning of Part One. Then look back at the text and check your ideas. Mr Utterson was a (0) lawyer in London. He was a very (1) serious man, and he did not often (2) smile or (3) laugh. He lived alone, and he had a very (4) quiet life. His friends liked him because he was (5) kind. They trusted him whit their (6) secrets. 48 B. In pairs or small groups, talk about the following questions about Mr Enfield. 1. Why do you think he is a close friend of Mr Utterson’s? 2. Where was he coming from and where was he going when he saw the little girl and the man in the street? 3. How did he discover that Mr Hyde didn’t live in the house whit the dirty door? 4. Does Mr Enfield live near the house with the dirty door? C. Answer these question about Mr Hyde. 1. Find three adjectives in the story to describe Mr Hyde. Small, ugly, strange 2. What did the little girl’s family and the other people in the street that night think of Mr Hyde? They hated him but they didn’t know why. 3. Look at the picture of Mr Hyde on page 11. If you were the illustrator for this story, would your picture of Mr Hyde be similar or different? D. Which of the three characters in Part One - Mr Utterson, Mr Enfield and Mr Hyde - do you think the sentence below could refer to? Say why. 0. He’s well educated. Mr Utterson - because he’s a lawyer. 1. He’s single. Mr Utterson - because he lives alone. 2. He isn’t very brave. Mr Enfield - because he feels frightened in the street. 3. He’s cruel. Mr Hyde - because he walks over the little girl. 4. He respects people’s private lives. Mr Enfield - because he doesn’t like asking questions. The man was walking down the main street. They ran into each other, and the little girl fell down. We use the past simple for short actions that interrupt a longer one, which is often in the past continuous. The man was walking down the main street. This action continued for quite a long time: the verb underlined is in the past continuous. They ran into each other other at the comer, and the little girl fell down. The next two actions interrupted the longer one: the verbs underlined are in the Past Simple. 3. Past continuous and past simple Put the verb in brackets into the past continuous or the past simple. Mr Utterson (0) was talking (talk) when Mr Enfield (1) stopped (stop) suddenly, ‘I’ll tell you a story about that old house over there,’ he said. ‘One night I (2) was walking (walk) along this street and I (3) saw (see) a man and a little girl. They (4) ran (run) into each other and the girl (5) fell (fall) over. She (6) was lying one the ground but the man (7) didn’t stop (not stop). He (8) walked (walk) over her body. She (9) started (start) crying. I (10) went (go) after the man and (11) brought (bring) him back. There was a crowd around the little girl and a doctor (12) was examining (examine) her.’ We can use the words when and while to join one or more different ideas in one sentence. 1 When is usually followed by a verb in the past simple. While is usually followed by a verb in the past continuous. The man was walking down the street when he saw a little girl. The man saw a little girl while he was walking down the street. 4. Sentences whit when and while Put the words in the sentences in the correct order. 0. Was driving/when/Mary/a/long/her car/petrol/country road/ran out of Mary was driving along a country road when her car out of petrol. 1. Sara/While/to/the/bag/shops/a man/was walking/her/stole While Sara was asking to the shops, a man stole her bag. 2. lady/ran into/the/old/road/An/a/bicycle/was crossing/her/when An old lady was crossing the road when a bicycle rain into her. 3. The/man/doctor/the/A/injured/when/ambulance/was examining/arrived. The doctor was examining the injured man when the ambulance arrived. 4. Tom/student/when/he/was/met/Angela/a Tom met Angela when he was a student. 5. Vocabulary- adjective sending whit -ing and -ed A. Complete the table whit the missing adjectives. Verb -ed adjectives (describe how people fell) -ing adjectives (describe the things that cause the feeling) Frighten Amaze Annoy Bore Depress Disappoint Embarrass Excite Interest Relax Surprise 0. Frightened Amazed Frinhtening 1. Amazing 2. Annoyed Bored Annouing 3. Boring 4. Depressed Disappointed Depressing 5. Disappointing 6. Embarrassed Excited Embarrassing 7. Exicting 8. Interested Relaxed Interessino 9. Relaxing 10. Surprised Surprising B. Answer the questions. Choose an adjective from the table. 0. You offer to pay for a friend’s coffee but then discover that you don’t have enough money to pay. How did you feel? Embarrassed 1. You are watching a documentary called ‘The future of our planet.’ What’s the programme like? Interesting/boring 2. You are listening to the sea. How does it make you feel? Relaxed 3. Your favorite football team usually plays well. Today they played very badly and lost the mach. How would you describe the result? Disappointing 4. You’re leaving for a round-the-word trip tomorrow. How do you fell? Exceted 48 ‘I am glad we have met, too,’ said Mr Hyde. He gave Mr Utterson a piece of paper whit his address written on it. ‘He’s thinking of the will!’ Mr Utterson thought. ‘He’s glad we met because of the will! That’s why he wants me to know where he lives.’ Mr Hyde entered the house, and closed the door behind him. ‘I don’t like that man!’ Though Mr Utterson. ‘There’s something very strange about him. Poor Henry Jekyll, why have you got a friend like that?’ The lawyer walked to the end of the street, and turned the corner. The houses here were large and beautiful. Mr Utterson stopped and knocked at the door of one of the houses. A servant opened the door. ‘Good evening, People,’ Mr Utterson said. ‘I am looking for Dr Jekyll - is he at home?’ ‘Please come in, sir,’ the servant said. ‘I will see if Dr Jekyll is at home.’ Poole came back after a few moments. ‘I’ m sorry, sir, he told Mr Utterson. ‘Dr Jekyll has gone out.’ ‘I saw Mr Hyde go into the laboratory,’ said Mr Utterson. ‘Does he often come when Dr Jekyll is out?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ Poole answered. ‘Mr Hyde has a key to the laboratory.’ ‘Are Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde good friends?’ Asked the lawyer. ‘They are very good friends, sir,’ Poole said. ‘We have orders to obey Mr Hyde when he comes to the laboratory.’ ‘I have never met Mr Hyde at dinner here,’ the lawyer said. ‘No, sir,’ Poole agreed. ‘Mr Hyde never dines here. He never comes to this part of the house. He stays in the laboratory.’ Mr Utterson thanked the servant, and left the house. He was very sad. ‘Poor Henry Jekyll!? He thought. ‘He lived badly when he was a young man. Mr Hyde must know some secret from the past. My friend is paying him to be quiet about the secret. My poor, poor friend - I’ll help him if I can!’ Two weeks later, Dr Jekyll invited some of his friends to dinner at his house. Mr Utterson stayed to talk whit his friend. ‘I want to talk to you about something important,’ the lawyer said. ‘It concerns your will, Jekyll.’ ‘I know what you want to say, my friend,’ Dr Jekyll told him. ‘You’re not happy about my will, are you?’ ‘I know something about Mr Hyde,’ Utterson said quietly. ‘People say terrible things about him.’ ‘You do not understand,’ Dr Jekyll said. ‘You do not understand my position. It’s very difficult for me-‘ ‘Jekyll!’ The lawyer interrupted him. ‘You know mw: we are old friends. If you’re in trouble, tell me the truth. Perhaps I can help you.’ ‘You’re a good friend, Utterson,’ Dr Jekyll said. ‘Talk you for your offer of help. But you cannot help me. I know you have seen Mr Hyde - he told me. I am interested in that man. I trust you to follow the orders in my will. Promise me that you will follow them.’ ‘I will never like Mr Hyde,’ the lawyer said. ‘I don’t ask that,’ Dr Jekyll told his friend. ‘I ask only that you help him when I am not here.’ ‘Very well,’ the lawyer said. ‘I will do what you want.’ THE NEXT AND BEYOND 1. Comprehension check Choose the correct answer, A, B, C or D, to the questions below. 1. What does Dr Jekyll’s will say? A. ❏ Mr Utterson will receive some of his money. B. ❏ Mr Hyde will receive some of his money. C. ❏ Mr Hyde will receive all his money if Dr Jekyll disappears or goes away. D. ❏ Mr Hyde will receive his money only if Dr Jekyll disappears. 1 2. Why don’t Dr Lanyon and Dr Jekyll see each other anymore? A. ❏ because Dr Lanyon does does not like Dr Jekyll’s will B. ❏ because Dr Lanyon is too busy C. ❏ because Dr Lanyon and Dr Jekyll don’t have same interests D. ❏ because Dr Lanyon does not like Dr Jekyll scientific ideas 3. Why does Mr Utterson do to the old house? A. ❏ to ask D Jekyll something B. ❏ to tell Dr Jekyll something C. ❏ to ask Mr Hyde something D. ❏ to tell Mr Hyde something 4. Why is Mr Utterson happy to meet Mr Hyde? A. ❏ because he knows he will meet him again B. ❏ because he wants him to do something for him C. ❏ because he wants to be his friend D. ❏ because Mr Utterson doesn’t have many friends 5. Why has Mr Utterson never met Mr Hyde before? A. ❏ because Mr Hyde never comes to the laboratory B. ❏ because Mr Hyde always stays in another part of the house C. ❏ because Dr Jekyll has never invited Mr Hyde to dinner D. ❏ because Dr Jekyll never invites his friends to his friends o his house 6. What does Dr Jekyll say about Mr Hyde? A. ❏ He is a terrible man. B. ❏ He is a good friend. C. ❏ He needs help. D. ❏ He will need Mr Utterson’s help. 2. Number the events in the order in which they happened in the story. The first on has been done for you. A. ❏ Mr Utterson spoken to Dr Jekyll. B. ❏ Mr Utterson decided to meet Mr Hyde. C. ❏ Dr Jekyll had a dinner party. D. ❏ Mr Utterson took a document out of his safe. E. ❏ Mr Hyde opened the door of the laboratory and went inside. F. ❏ Mr Utterson made a promise. G. ❏ Mr Utterson went to see Dr Jekyll but he was out. H. ❏ Dr Lanyon told Mr Utterson that he didn’t know a man called Hyde. 3. Write the questions. 0. How did Mr Utterson feel after his walk whit Mr Enfield? He felt unhappy. 1. He is a friend of Dr Jekyll’s and Mr Utterson’s. Who is Dr Lanyon? 2. Because he hoped to see Mr Hyde. Why did Mr Utterson go to the old house? 48 3. A piece of paper whit his address written on it. What did Mr Hyde hive Mr Utterson? 4. No, he wasn’t. He was out. Was Dr Jekyll at home? 5. He told him that they had to obey Mr Hyde. What did Poole tell Mr Utterson? 6. He invited some of his friends to dinner. What did Dr Jekyll do two weeks later? 4. Discussion In pairs or small groups, talk about these questions. 1. Dr Lanyon says that Dr Jekyll ‘has some very strange ideas about science’. What kind of ideas could Dr Jekyll have? 2. Mr Utterson days that Dr Jekyll lived badly when he was a young man.’ What does he mean? 3. Dr Jekyll says that he is interested in Mr Hyde. Why? 4. What kind of help must Mr Utterson give Mr Hyde when Dr Jekyll isn’t there? We have all been friends for a long time, ‘Mr Utterson said. The present perfect simple We use the present perfect simple to talk about the duration of an action or a state that starts in the past and continuous into the present. Then Mr Utterson said, ‘We have all been friends for a long time.’ (We started being friends a long time ago, and we are still friends.) I’ve lived in this house since 2001, and I still live in it.) We use the present perfect simple with for + a period of time or since + when the action or state started to talk about how long the action or state has been in progress. They’ve known each other for a long time. I’ve played tennis since I was twelve years old. 5. Present perfect simple Write a sentence using the present perfect simple of the verb in brackets and for or since. 0. I came here ten years ago. I’ve been here for ten years. (be) 1. Mark became a professional footballer in 2006. Mark has been a professional footballer since 2006. 2. Sara met her boyfriend last Christmas. Sara has known her boyfriend since Christmas. 3. My brother bought his Mp3 player three months ago. My brother has had his MP3 player for three months. 4. Robert and Anne got married in 1995. Robert and Anne have been married since 1995. 5. I became a vegetarian last June. I’ve been a vegetarian since last June. 6. I started playing the violin when I was six years old. I’ve played the violin since I was six years old. 7. Julie’s hairdresser cut her hair short last Saturday. Julie’s had short hair since last Saturday. 8. My headache started this morning. I’ve had a headache since this morning. 1 Group 4: Jack the Ripper - Whitechapel Write or say a sentence about each group. 2. Speaking Crime in fiction and film is very popular. In pairs or small groups talk about the following. 1. What detectives from books, cartoons or films do you know? Where and when do they live? Do they have a friend or colleague to help? What are these detectives’ special qualities or abilities? 2. Why are crime stories and crime films so popular? 3. Writing Invent a new detective. Think of where and when he or she lives, and what kind of work he/she does. Write the first paragraph of a story about him/her. (100-200 words) INTERNET PROJECT Jack the Ripper Connect to the internet and go to www.blackcat-cideb.com or www.cideb.it. Insert the little or part of the title or part of the book into our search engine. Open the page for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Click on the Internet project link. Go down the page until you find the little book and click on the relevant links for this project. Find the answers to these questions. 1. How many woman were killed in Whitechapel? 2. How many people were suspected of being Jack the Ripper? 3. Where does the name Jack the Ripper come from? 4. When was the last letter from Jack the Ripper received? BEFORE YOU READ 1.Listening Listen to the beginning of Part Three. You are a newspaper reporter taking notes about a murder. For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space. Murder Notes Who witnessed the crime? (1) A young servant girl. What was the approximate time of the murder? (2) About some time after eleven o’clock at night. Where was the witness when he/she saw the murder? (3) She was sitting near the window. What did the victim look like? He was an (4) old man whit (5) white hair. What is the murderer’s name? (6) Mr Hyde. Why did the witness recognize the murderer? (7) He sometimes came to her employer’s house. What did the murderer kill his victim whit? (8) A heavy stick. Now read Part Three and check your ideas. 48 The Carew Murder Case One year passed. Then a terrible murder happened in London. The murder shocked people because it was very violent, and because the victim was an important man. Soon everybody was talking about it. A young servant girl described what had happened. She lived in a house near the river. She had gone to bed at about eleven o’clock one night. She could not sleep, and she had got out of bed. She sat near the window for a long time. She saw an old man who was walking along the street. The old man had white hair. She also saw another, small man, walking towards the old man. When the two men met, the old man said something to the small man. He seemed to be asking a question. The girl could not hear the words he spoke, but she said that he spoke very politely. Then the girl recognized the small man. It was Mr Hyde. She knew him because he sometimes came to the house where she worked, to speak to her employer. Mr Hyde was carrying a heavy stick in his hand. He did not answer the old man’s question. Suddenly he lifted his stick above his again, and began to hit the old man whit it. He it him again and attacked him where he lay on the ground. The girl was horrified at the violence of the attack, and she fainted. It was two o’clock in the morning when the girl woke up from her faint. She called the police immediately. The murderer had got, but the old man was lying in the street. The police found a piece of the murderer’s stick in the street next to the old man’s body. When they searched the body, they also found the old man’s wallet and papers, and a letter. the letter was addressed to Mr Utterson’s house the next morning. He because very serious when they told him about the murder. ‘I want to see the body,’ he said.’ I can say nothing util I have seen the body.’ Mr Utterson went to the police station. The policed carried the body there. ‘Yes,’ said Mr Utterson, ‘I recognize this man. It is Sir Danvers Carew, the Member of Parliament.’ ‘Sir Danvers Carew!’ The policeman said. ‘Is it possible?’ He looked at Mr Utterson. ‘This murder will be famous,’ he said. ‘Perhaps you can help us to catch the man, Mr Utterson?’ The policemen then told Mr Utterson what the girl had seen. Mr Utterson was unhappy when he heard the name of Hyde. He asked to look at the piece of the murderer’s stick. He recognized it immediately. ‘This Mr Hyde,’ he asked the policeman, ‘does the girl say that he was a small man?’ ‘She says that he is a small, ugly man,’ the policeman said. ‘Come whit me,’ Mr Utterson said, ‘I’ll take you to Mr Hyde’s house. I know where he lives.’ Mr Utterson and the policeman went to the part of the city where Mr Hyde lived It was a dirty, poor part of the city. They knocked on the door of Mr Hyde’s house. An old woman whit an evil face opened the door. She told them that Mr Hyde was out. She explained that Mr Hyde had come in very late the night before. Then he had gone out again. ‘We want to search his rooms, ‘the lawyer said. ‘This man is Inspector Newcomen of Scotland Ya…’ ‘What has Mr Hyde done?’ The old woman asked. ‘Why are the police looking for him?’ The old woman showed the two men Mr Hyde’s rooms. They were comfortable rooms, whit elegant furniture and pictures. The room were untidy, however. They found clothes on the floor, and part of Mr Hyde’s stick behind the door. There was also part of a cheque book in the fire place. Someone had tried to burn it. Mr Hyde’s bank account contained thousands of pounds. 1 ‘We will find him, sir,’ the inspector told Mr Utterson. He cannot escape the police. We have his stick, and we know where his bank is. we will wait for him to go the bank. We will put up pictures of him all over the city.’ It was not easy to find pictures of Mr Hyde. He had no family, and he had no friends. There was no photograph of him anywhere. The people who had seen him could not describe him. Everybody agreed that he was small and ugly - but no one could describe him accurately. It was late in the afternoon when Mr Utterson arrived at Dr Jekyll’s house. The servant Poole took the lawyer through the main part of the house to the laboratory. It was the first time that Mr Utterson had been to Dr Jekyll’s laboratory. He looked at the scientific apparatus whit curiosity. ‘Have you heard the terrible news?’ He asked his friend. Dr Jekyll looked very unhappy. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘everybody is talking about this murder.’ ‘Listen to me,’ said the lawyer slowly. ‘Carew was my client. You are also my client. I want to understand exactly what has happened. Are you hiding Mr Hyde?’ ‘I will never see Hyde again!’ The doctor cried. ‘I promise you, my friend, I have finished whit that man. But he doesn’t need my help. He has gone, and no one will find him.’ ‘You seen very certain,’ Mr Utterson said. ‘I am certain,’ Dr Jekyll told him. ’No one will see Hyde again. But there is something else. I need your advice. I have received a letter, and I don’t know what to do whit it. Will you advise me?’ ‘Show me this letter,’ the lawyer said. Dr Jekyll gave the lawyer a letter. It was written by Edward Hyde. In his letter Mr Hyde thanked Dr Jekyll for his friendship. He said that he was sorry for what he had done, and that he was going away. ‘Where is the envelope?’ Asked Mr Utterson. ‘I burnt the envelope,’ Dr Jekyll told him, ‘but the letter was not posted. Someone came to the house and left it here.’ ‘I shall think about the letter,’ Mr Utterson said. ‘One other thing. Was it Mr Hyde who made you write the will?’ Dr Jekyll looked at his friend. He said nothing, but he nodded his head. ‘I thought is was him!’ The lawyer cried. ‘He planned to murder you. He wanted your money.’ When he was leaving the house, Mr Utterson spoke to Poole for a moment. ‘Someone came whit a letter for Dr Jekyll today,’ he said. ‘What did the man look like?’ ‘No one came whit a letter, sir,’ the servant told him. ‘Then the letter arrived at the laboratory, and not at the house,’ Mr Utterson thought. ‘That is why Poole did not see the person who left it.’ That evening Mr Utterson sat whit Mr Guest, his heard clerk and friend. ‘This murder of Sir Danvers Carew is very sad,’ the lawyer said. ‘It is, indeed,’ Mr Guest agreed. It is terrible. The man who killed him must be mad.’ ‘You are an expert on crime and detention,’ Mr Utterson said. ‘I have a letter from Mr Hyde. Please look at it, and tell me about the writer of the letter. Do you think he is really mad?’ Mr Utterson took out Mr Hyde’s letter, and passed it to Mr Guest. Mr Guest studied the letter for a few minutes. Then he said, ‘Well, sir, the writer of this letter is not mad. But his writing is strange. I know this writing, I am sure I do.’ Mr Guest picked up a letter from Dr Jekyll. He put it next to the letter from Mr Hyde. ‘I thought so!’ He cried. ‘The same man wrote these two letters - I am sure of it.’ ‘I don’t think we should talk about this to anyone,’ Mr Utterson said. ‘No, sir,’ Mr Guest agreed. ‘I understand.’ When he was alone again, Mr Utterson put the letter from Mr Hyde into his safe. He was very unhappy. ‘Henry Jekyll forget a letter for a murderer!’ He thought. ‘What have you done, my old friend? And why are you protecting Hyde?’ THE TEXT AND BEYOND 1. Comprehension check 48 robbery robber rob - robbed - robbed (a person/a place) burglary burglar burgle (regular) (a house/shop etc.) shoplifiting shoplifter shoplift (regular) (steal from shops) forgery forget forge (regular) (banknotes/cheques etc.) Complete the sentences whit an appropriate word from the table above. 0. An did man killed in his home late last night. The police are looking for the murderer. 1. The bulglar got into the house through the bathroom window. 2. The owner of the gallery knew the painting was a forgery as soon as he saw it. 3. I left my bicycle outside a shop and someone stole It. 4. My localist office was robbed twice last month. 5. Look! That man has just taken that old lady’s bag. Hey! Shop thief! 6. Shoplifting from supermarkets is very common these days. 7. Who murdered Sir Danvers Carew? 8. Katie forged her mother’s signature on the post office from. 5. Vocabulary - crime and detection 2 A. Match the words whit their definitions. 0. ❏ evidence 1. ❏ fingerprints 2. ❏ to search a place 3. ❏ clue 4. ❏ murder weapon A. something that helps you solve a mystery B. something that has been used to kill somebody C. marks made by a person’s fingers D. to look carefully for something in a place E. information used in a court of law B. Write sentences using the words 0-4 above. 0. There is no evidence that John Cole killed his wife, so the judge can’t send him to prison. 1. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6. Speaking - rules and regulations 1. How old must you be before you can vote in your country? 2. Are there any regulations about what people can wear in your country? 3. Do drivers usually obey the regulations where you live? 4. What is the most common crime in your country? 7. Listening 1 You will hear a conversation between Inspector Newcomen and another policeman. Inspector Newcomen is describing what happened. Complete the other policeman’s questions. Policeman: (1) What was the victim’s name? Inspector Newcomen: Sir Danvers Carew. Policeman: (2) Was he an important man? Inspector Newcomen: Yes, he was. He was a Member of Parliament. Policemen: (3) Why was he killed? Inspector Newcomen: We don’t really know. We think the murderer is mad. Policeman: (4) Do you know who the murderer is? Inspector Newcomen: Yes, a girl recognized him. It was a man called Edward Hyde. Policemen: (5) How was he killed? Inspector Newcomen: With a stick. Policemen: (6) Do you know where Mr Hyde lives? Inspector Newcomen: Yes, Mr Utterson and I went to his house. Policemen: (7) Did you find anything there? Inspector Newcomen: We found the other half of the stick. 8. Sentence transformation Here are some sentences from the text. For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first, using no more than three works. 0. The murder shocked people because it was so violent. People were shocked by the murder because it was so violent 1. It was two o’clock in the morning when the girl woke up from her faint. The girl woke up from her faint at two o’clock In the morning. 2. The letter was addressed to Mr Utterson, the lawyer. The address on the letter was To Mr Utterson, the lawyer. 3. She told them that Mr Hyde was out. ‘Mr Hyde is out ’ the old woman said. 4. ‘We will find him, sir,’ the inspector told Mr Utterson. The inspector told Mr Utterson that they would find him. 5. There was no photograph of him anywhere. No one had a photograph of him. 6. ‘Was it Mr Hyde who made you write the will?’ ‘Did Mr Hyde make you write the will?’ BEFORE YOU READ 1. Prediction What do you think will happen next in the story? 2. Listening Listen to the first part of Part Four and choose the correct answer, A, B or C. 1. Why did Mr Utterson think that Dr Jekyll was safe? A. ❏ because the police were looking for Mr Hyde B. ❏ because Mr Hyde had disappeared C. ❏ beacause Dr Jekyll was cheerful again 2. When did Mr Utterson have dinner at Dr Jekyll’ house? A. ❏ on January 8t B. ❏ on January 12th C. ❏ on January 18th 48 3. Why was Dr Lanyon drying? A. ❏ because he was very old B. ❏ because he had a terrible shock C. ❏ because he had a terrible disease 4. Why did Dr Jekyll say that he had to be alone? A. ❏ because he had argued whit Dr Lanyon B. ❏ because was sad that Mr Hyde was gone C. ❏ because that was his punishment for a terrible thing he had done 5. What was similar about the words written by Dr Lanyon on the second envelope and Dr Jekyll’s will? A. ❏ They both mention Dr Jekyll’s disappearance. B. ❏ They both mention Mr Hyde. C. ❏ They both mention Dr Lanyon. Now read Part Four and check your ideas. An incident at the window Time passed, and the police continued their search for Mr Hyde. They offered a lot of money for information about his past. He had done many bad things, and no one liked him. But they could not discover where he was. There was no trace of him. Mr Utterson began to think that his friend Jekyll was now safe. He was happy that Mr Hyde had disappeared. He saw that a new life was beginning for Dr Jekyll. The doctor saw his friends again, and he seemed cheerful and contented. For two months Dr Jekyll saw his friends nearly every day. On the eighth of January Mr Utterson had dinner at Dr Jekyll’s house. Dr Lanyon was one of the guests. Mr Utterson called at his friend’s house again on the twelfth of January. Poole sad that his employer was not at home. The lawyer returned on the fourteenth. ‘The doctor is at home.’ Poole told him, ‘but he cannot see anyone. He is ill.’ Mr Utterson came back the next day, but again he could not see Jekyll. He began to worry that something had happened. He decided to visit Dr Lanyon. Mr Utterson was very surprised when he saw Dr Lanyon. The doctor looked very ill. he was white and very thin. ‘He is dying,’ Mr Utterson thought. ‘He is a doctor. He must know he is dying. How sad it is!’ ‘I have had a terrible shock,’ Dr Lanyon told him. ‘I shall never be well again. I will be dead in a few weeks.’ ‘Jekyll is ill, too,’ Mr Utterson told him. ‘I have been to his house, but Poole says he is ill. have you seen him?’ Dr Lanyon’s face changed. ‘I will not speak about that man!’ He said. ‘I do not want you to speak about that man to me. Never mention his name to me again. To me, Jekyll is a dead man!’ ‘We have all been friends for a long time,’ the lawyer said. 1 We also use the past perfect to report the past simple or the present perfect simple in reported speech. He asked him why he had quarreled whit Dr Lanyon. (‘Why did you quarrel whit Dr Lanyon?’) In his letter the doctor told him that he had decided not to see anyone in the future. (‘I have decided not to see anyone in the future.’) 4. The past perfect in reported speech Write the words that are reported in the sentences. 0. Mr Utterson told Dr Lanyon that he had been to Dr Jekyll’s house. ‘I have been to Dr Jekyll’s house.’ Mr Utterson said. 1. Mr Utterson said that they had been friends for a long time. ‘We have been friends for a long time,’ Mr Utterson said. 2. Mr Utterson told Mr Enfield that he had seen Mr Hyde once last year. ‘I saw Mr Hyde once last year,’ Mr Utterson said. 3. Mr Enfield asked Mr Utterson if he had hated Mr Hyde immediately. ‘Did you hate Mr Hyde immediately?’ Mr Enfield asked. 4. Mr Enfield said that he had discovered that the old house was Dr Jekyll’s laboratory later. ‘I discovered that the old house was Dr Jekyll’s laboratory later,’ Mr Enfield said. 5. Adverbs We often use adverbs to describe to describe the way in which people say things. The adverbs add more ‘color’ to speech. Choose an appropriate adverb from the box to complete the sentences. angrily cheerfully mysteriously patiently politely sadly seriously 0. ‘I’m afraid we’ll have to cancel our trip to London,’ she said sadly. 1. ‘if you don’t have an operation, you’ll die.’ The doctor said seriously. 2. ‘I can’t meet you, but I can’t explain why now,’ she said mysteriously. 3. ‘Good morning, Mr Utterson! Lovely day, isn’t it?’ He said cheerfully. 4. ‘Go away! I hate you!’ She said angrily. 5. ‘Excuse me! May I come in?’ He asked politely. 6. ‘It’s Ok. I’ll sit here and wait for you to finish your emails,’ he said patiently. BEFORE YOU READ 1. Prediction The following events 1-6 all happen in Part Five. In pairs or small groups, choose an answer to the questions then read and find out if you were right. 1. Poole goes to Mr Utterson’s house one evening and asks him to come back to Dr Jekyll’s house whit him. Why? A. ❏ because he’s worried about Dr Jekyll B. ❏ because Dr Jekyll asked him to bring Mr Utterson to the house 2. Mr Utterson goes to Dr Jekyll’s house. The servants are waiting for him in the hall. How do you they look? A. ❏ frightened B. ❏ happy 3. Mr Utterson and Poole decide to break into Dr Jekyll’s laboratory. Who do they find there? A. ❏ no one 48 B. ❏ Mr Hyde 4. ‘I’m desperate - send me some of the good stuff!’ This is from a note written by A. ❏ Mr Hyde B. ❏ Dr Jekyll 5. Dr Jekyll has written a new will. Who has he left all his money to? A. ❏ Mr Hyde B. ❏ Mr Utterson 6. There is a note from Dr Jekyll to Mr Utterson. What does Dr Jekyll ask Mr Utterson to do? A. ❏ find Mr Hyde and give him some money B. ❏ read some documents The Last Night Mr Utterson was at home one evening, when Dr Jekyll’s servant came to the house. ‘Good evening, Poole,’ the lawyer said. ‘What can I do for you? He looked at the servant for a moment. Poole was very white and frightened. ‘What’s the matter?’ Asked Mr Utterson. ‘Mr Utterson,’ Poole said, ‘there is something wrong at Dr Jekyll’s house. I am very worried.’ Mr Utterson gave the man a glass go wine. ‘Drink this,’ he ordered, ‘and try to be calm. Tell me everything. Why are you afraid?’ ‘I think something has happened to the doctor,’ Poole said. ‘Something has happened to Dr Jekyll? What do you mean?’ Demanded Mr Utterson. ‘I want you to come to the house, sir,’ Poole said. ‘Then you can see for yourself, sir.’ Mr Utterson walked to Dr Jekyll’s house whit the servant. It was a cold, March night. The wind was strong. The streets were empty, and Mr Utterson was nervous. He was sure something bad had happened. The two men reached the house. Poole knocked on the door. 1 Another servant opened the door, and Mr Utterson entered the house. All Dr Jekyll’s servants were standing in the hall - they looked frightened. One of the servant girl began to cry. ‘Be quite!’ Poole told her angrily. Then he turned to Mr Utterson. ‘I’m sorry, sir, they’re all afraid,’ he explained. ‘Will you come whit me, sir? I want too to hear something. Please be very quiet.’ The servant led Mr Utterson through the house, to the laboratory. Then he spoke again. ‘If Dr Jekyll asks you to come into the laboratory, and called out, ‘Mr utters is here, Dr Jekyll - he wants to see you, sir.’ A voice answered from inside the laboratory, ‘Tell him I cannot see anyone.’ ‘Thank you, sir,’ replied Poole. He then took Mr Utterson back into the main part of the house. When they arrived he asked the lawyer. ‘Now Mr Utterson, tell me. Did that voice sound like Dr Jekyll?’ ‘His voice is different, certainly,’ Mr Utterson admitted. ‘Different!’0 repeated Poole. ‘I have known Dr Jekyll for twenty years, and I tell you, sir, that wasn’t his voice. Dr Jekyll was murdered eight days ago. I heard him cry out eight days ago - but who is in that room, and why he stays there, I don’t know.’ ‘This has no sense. Pool,’ Mr Utterson said. ‘Why should anyone kill Dr Jekyll, and stay in the same room whit the body? You must be wrong!’ ‘There is more, sir,’ said the servant. ‘Every day for a week the person in the laboratory has left notes for me to go the chemist to buy some kind of medicine. Every day there are more notes. I have gone to every chemist in the city. There is always something wrong whit the medicine.’ ‘Show me one of these notes,’ Mr Utterson ordered. Poole took a letter out of his pocket, and gave it to Mr Utterson. The note said: Dr Jekyll presents his compliments to Maw the chemist’s. The sample you sent me is useless. Dr Jekyll needs a sample of the highest quality, like the one he bought from you in the year 18-. Please send this immediately. I’m desperate - send me some of the good stuff! ‘I have seen the way Dr Jekyll writes,’ Mr Utterson said. ‘This seems to be the doctor’s writing. Do you agree?’ ‘I don’t know, sir,’ Poole said, ‘Writing isn’t important - I’ve seen him! I’ve tell you! I came to the laboratory door one day, and the door was convered. When he saw me, he ran back into the laboratory and closed the door. That man was not Dr Jekyll, I’m sure of it! It wasn’t the doctor!’ ‘You can’t be sure, Poole,’ the lawyer told him. ‘Perhaps the doctor’s illness has changed his face. Perhaps that’s why he needs the medicine.’ ‘No, sir,’ sad Poole firmly. ‘Dr Jekyll is a tall man - and the man I saw outside the laboratory was small. It wasn’t the doctor!’ ‘Very well,’ Mr utters said. ‘We’ll go to the laboratory. We have to find out the hurt of this. We’ll break down the door of the laboratory.’ Poole and the lawyer picked up an axe and a metal bar. They walked towards the laboratory. Mr Utterson stopped for a moment. ‘Poole,’ he said, ‘we must be honest whitecap other. You haven’t told me everything. The man you saw outside the laboratory - who was it?’ ‘I think it was Mr Hyde, sir,’ replied the servant. ‘I didn’t see him well. But I think it was him.’ ‘I believe you,’ Mr Utterson said. ‘I think it was Mr Hyde. I fear that Dr Jekyll is dead. But I don’t understand why Hyde is staying in the laboratory. I don’t understand that at all.’ When the two men reached the laboratory door, they stopped again. Then Mr Utterson called out to the person behind the door. ‘Jekyll! this is Utterson. Open the door. I must see you.’ A voice from behind the door answer the lawyer’s command ‘No, Utterson, co!’ ‘That’s not the voice of Henry Jekyll,’ the lawyer said to Poole. ‘Let’s break down the door!’ Poole hit the door of the laboratory whit the axe. They heard a frightened cry from the other side. The door was strong, and Poole hit it five times before it opened. 48 He must still be alive, Poole! We use must + verb and can’t + verb to say we are certain that something is true because of what we can see, hear, taste, smell or feel, or what we already know. Mr Utterson says, ‘He must still be alive, Poole!’ Because he sees that the date on Mr Jekyll’s letter is for that day. Dr Jekyll can’t be dead because the date on the letter is for today. 5. Must and can’t - making deductions In pairs or small groups, talk about the following statements. Use must + verb or can’t + verb to make your deductions. Use the words in brackets to give reasons. 0. Poole is very worried about Dr Jekyll. (he/go/see/Mr Utterson) Poole must be very worried about r Jekyll because he went to see Mr Utterson. 1. Dr Jekyll works at home. (he/have/laboratory/house) Mr Utterson must work at home because he has a laboratory in is house. 2. Mr Utterson knows Dr Jekyll very well. (they/be friends/long time) Mr Utterson must know Dr Jekyll very well because they’ve been friends for a long time. 3. Mr Hyde isn’t a poor man. (he/have/thousands of pounds/bank) Mr Hyde can’t be a poor man because he has thousands of pounds in the bank. 4. Mr Hyde doesn’t have any friends. (everyone/hate/him) Mr Hyde can’t have any friends because everyone hates him. 5. The servant girl is very frightened. (she/start/cry) The servant girl must be very frightened because she starts to cry. 6. Dr Jekyll isn’t in the house. (Mr Utterson/not find/him anywhere) Dr Jekyll can’t be in. the house because Mr Utterson didn’t find him anywhere. 6. Vocabulary - synonyms and opposites Do the crossword puzzle and find the master word. All the words in the puzzle are from Part Five. 1. The opposite of happy. ❏❏❏❏❏❏❏ 2. The opposite of useful. ❏❏❏❏❏❏❏ 3. The same as incorrect. ❏❏❏❏❏ 4. The same as personal. ❏❏❏❏❏❏❏ 5. The opposite of positive. ❏❏❏❏❏❏❏❏❏❏ 6. The same as afraid. ❏❏❏❏❏❏❏❏❏❏ 7. The same as relaxed. ❏❏❏❏ 8. The opposite of contented. ❏❏❏❏❏❏❏❏❏ 9. The opposite of relaxed. ❏❏❏❏❏❏❏ 10. The opposite of weak. ❏❏❏❏❏❏ Mystery word: Dr Jekyll has done a terrible thing and this is his punishment. 7. Listening You will hear a conversation between two students. Listen and decide if the following sentences are true (T) or false (F). T F 1. Sally thinks that Hyde escaped. ❏ ❏ 2. John thinks that Dr Jekyll killed Hyde. ❏ ❏ 1 3. Sally thinks that Hyde killed Dr Jekyll. ❏ ❏ 4. John thinks that Hyde killed Dr Jekyll. ❏ ❏ 1. She doesn’t know. 2. He thinks that Hyde killed Jekyll. 3. She thinks that Jekyll escaped from the laboratory. 8. Speaking - health 1. What do you do to try and stay healthy? 2. When was the last time you were ill and to stay in bed? 3. What do you think of the health service where you live? 4. Do visitors to your country have any vacations? BEFORE YOU READ 1. Discussion In Part Six you will read two letters: one from Dr Jekyll to Dr Lanyon, and another from Dr Lanyon to Mr Utterson. Do you think statements about the letters below (A-D) will be true (T) or false (F)? T F 1. In the letter from Dr Jekyll to Dr Lanyon, Dr Jekyll A. Tells Dr Lanyon that he is sorry that they have quarreled. ❏ ❏ B. Invents Dr Lanyon to dinner that evening. ❏ ❏ C. Asks Dr Lanyon to do him a favour. ❏ ❏ D. Explains a new scientific theory to him. ❏ ❏ 2. In the letter from Dr Lanyon to Mr Utterson, Dr Lanyon A. Admits stealing some things from the laboratory. ❏ ❏ B. Says that a small ugly man came to see him. ❏ ❏ C. Describes an evening he has spent with friends. ❏ ❏ D. Complains about not being able to sleep well at night. ❏ ❏ Now read Part Six and check your ideas. 48 Dr Lanyon’s Narrative When Mr Utterson arrived home, he went to his safe. He looked at the envelope: ‘Open after the death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll.’ ‘I don’t think Henry Jekyll is dead,’ thought Mr Utterson. ‘But he has certainly disappeared. Now is the time to read this letter!’ Mr Utterson opened the letter, and began to read. This is what the letter said: Four days ago, on the ninth of January, I received a strange letter from Dr Jekyll. You must read this letter if you want to understand what happened afterwards. Dr Jekyll’s letter to Dr Lanyon was also in the envelope, and the lawyer read it. It said: Dear Lanyon, You are one of my oldest friends. We have quarreled, but I still see you as a friend. I am writing now to ask you to do something for me. It is very important. I want you to go to my house tonight. My servant Poole will be there. He knows you’re coming. You and Poole must breakdown the door of my laboratory. Go into the laboratory alone, and from the fourth drawer of the cabinet take the powders and a book, go home immediately. At midnight a man will come to your house. Please give him the things from my laboratory. This is all I ask you to do. If you want an explanation, the man will give you one. Please do what I ask, Lanyon. It will save your old friend, Henry Jekyll Dr Lanyon’s letter continued: I thought Dr Jekyll was mad, but I decided that I should do what he asked, all the same. I went to the doctor’s house that night, and Poole and I went to the laboratory. We broke down the door, and I entered. I found the cabinet and took out the drawer whit the powers and the book, and I took to home whit me. While I waited for the man to come at midnight, I looked at the book. It seemed to be a record of the doctor’s experience. I did not understand what the doctor’s experiments meant.’ At midnight there was a knock at the door of my house. I went to the door, and opened it. There was a small man standing outside. ‘Are you Dr Jekyll’s friend?’ I asked him. He moved his head. I asked him into the house. He was an ugly little man, and I did not like him. I remember that his clothes were too big for him. The main was very impatient. ‘Where are the powders?’ He asked me. ‘have you got them?’ ‘Be patient,’ I told him. ‘Sit down for a moment.’ ‘I am sorry,’ the man said. ‘Dr Jekyll sent me here. The business is urgent.’ I gave the powders to the man. He mixed them together in a glass, and they changed color. The man then looked at me. 1 A. ❏ Anybody who arrests Mr Hyde will receive £100. B. ❏ If Mr Hyde is arrested because of the information you give, you will receive £100 C. ❏ If you lead Mr Hyde to the police, you will receive £100. No one but Mr Hyde must enter my laboratory when I am not home without my written permission. A. ❏ Mr Hyde cannot go into the laboratory without Dr Jekyll is not at home. B. ❏ Mr Hyde can go into the laboratory only when Dr Jekyll is not at home. C. ❏ Mr Hyde can go into the laboratory. Everybody else must have permission written by Dr Jekyll. Power useful as heart medicine only in very small amounts: 1-2 grams. More may be harmful. A. ❏ One or two grams of this powder will kill you. B. ❏ One or two grams of this powder can help heart problems, but more than that is dangerous. C. ❏ Only large quantities of this powder can help heart problems. Try to get more medicine from Maw the chemist’s only if not effective go to other ones. A. ❏ Don’t go to Maw the chemists because Maw does not have any effective medicine. B. ❏ Go to another chemist’s to obtain effective medicine. C. ❏ First go to Maw the chemist’s for the medicine, but then try another chemist’s if you need to. 6. Listening You will hear a conversation between Dr Lanyon and the man who comes to his house. Listen and fill in the gaps. Man: Well, have you got them? (1) Give them to (2) me. I need them new! Dr Lanyon: One moment. I want to ask you some (3) questions first. Who sent you? Man: Dr Jekyll (4) sent me. He said you had something to give me. Something from his laboratory. I can’t (5) wait. Please give me the powders now! Dr Lanyon: Here you are. Man: Now, Dr Lanyon. You have a (6) choice. Do you want to know what this is about? I can leave your house, or I can take the powders here, in front of you. This carefully. It’s an important (7) decision. Dr Lanyon: I’m curious. I want to find out what this is all about. Take the powders here. Man: Are you sure? Is that (8) really what you want me to do? Dr Lanyon: That’s my decision. Man: Very (9) well. Prepare yourself, doctor. All your ideas about (10) science are going to change in the next few minutes! 48 BEFORE YOU READ 1. Listening Listen to the first part of Part seven and choose the correct answer, A or B. 1. When he was a young man, Dr Jekyll A. ❏ enjoyed himself with his friends. B. ❏ enjoyed himself alone. 2. In this studies, Dr Jekyll wanted to A. ❏ create a completely good identity for himself. B. ❏ create a good and a bad identity for himself. Now read Part Seven and check your ideas. Henry Jekyll’s statement Mr Utterson put down Dr Lanyon’s letter. He picked up the paper from Dr Jekyll’s laboratory, and began to read. This is what he read: I, Henry Jekyll, was born in 18 -. I had money, I was intelligent, and I liked to work. My future seemed happy and rich. When I was young I wanted to be respected by my friends. I pretended to be a very serious man. I was not like other young men, who drink together and enjoyed myself, but I kept my pleasures a secret from others. In public I was a good man - privately, I was a bad one. I studied science, and I became certain that all human beings are like me. Everyone has two parts - a good part, and an evil part. No one can be happy because these two parts of nature fight against each other. In my studies I tired to separate these two parts. I wanted to create two identities. One identity would be for the good part of myself. The other identity would be for the will part. I thought each identity would be happy: the good part would be completely good, and the evil part would be completely evil. I worked for many years to find out how to create these new identities. I bought some special powders from a chemist in the city. Then, one night I mixed the powders together. I drank the mixture, and immediately I felt ill. suddenly I was a different man. I looked at myself in the mirror. I was younger and smaller, and I was completely wicked. Nothing was important to me, except pleasure. I had become Edward Hyde! I drank another glass of the mixture, and Edward Hyde disappeared - instantly I became Dr Jekyll again! I could now change whenever I wanted. The well-known and respected Dr Jekyll could become Edward Hyde. Edward Hyde could do things that the good doctor was not allowed to do. I began to like the new identity I had created for myself. 1 At first Edward Hyde was happy just to enjoy himself, but soon he began to do terrible things. Dr Jekyll was often terrified by the things that Hyde did. The doctor could do nothing. Jekyll and Hyde were different people. Soon I realised that Edward Hyde was dangerous. He might do something that would damage the doctor’s reputation. I remember the night when Hyde walked over the body of the little girl. When he had to find money to pay the girl’s family, he came to the doctor’s house. I decided to give Hyde a separate bank account, and too give him his own house. I prepared the will which you disliked so much, Utterson. I thought I was safe. About two months before the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, a strange thing happened. I took the powders as usual, and became Edward Hyde, I went out into the city, and returned home to sleep. When I wake up, I knew something was wrong. Then I looked at my hands. Dr Jekyll’s hands are large, but the hands I saw were small. Then I understood: they were Edward Hyde’s hands! I had gone to bed as Henry Jekyll and had woken up as Hyde! I ran to the laboratory, and took some more of the mixture. In a few minutes I was Dr Jekyll again. Soon I understand that Hyde was stronger than Dr Jekyll. It became difficult to change back from Hyde to Dr Jekyll. Sometimes the powders did not work. I knew that I must choose between the two identities. I decided to be Dr Jekyll. For two months I followed my choice. I worked, I saw my friends, and I began to be happy again. But every day I thought about Hyde. I missed his life of pleasures - I missed the excitement of being Hyde. One day I drank the powders again. This time, when Hyde came, he was angry. That was the night that he murdered Sir Danvers Carew. Hyde enjoyed the violence of the murder, but he was afraid of the police. He come back to the laboratory, and drank the powders. I, Henry Jekyll, remembered what Hyde had done. I was terrified. I swore that I would never take the powders again. Edward Hyde was finished forever! For a while I lived as Dr Jekyll. I worked, I saw my friends, I thought I was saffron Hyde. One day I went to the park. I sat there, thinking about my life. ‘I am a good man,’ I told myself. I looked at the people around me. ‘I am a better man than most of them,’ I thought. At that instant, I suddenly felt ill: I felt a change in myself. I looked down - I had become Hyde once more! THE TEXT AND BEYOND 1. Comprehension check Make notes to help you answer the questions bellow. 1. What was the young Henry Jekyll like? Write down three adjectives to describe him. Intelligent; rich; hard-working. 2. Why did the young Henry Jekyll pretend to be serious? Because he wanted to be respected by his friends. 3. How was the young Henry Jekyll different from other young men? He kept his pleasures secret from others. 4. What was his theory about human beings? Everyone has two parts: a good part and an evil part. 5. Who was Edward Hyde? He was Dr Jekyll’s evil part. 6. Why couldn’t Dr Jekyll stop Mr Hyde from doing terrible things? Because they were two different people. 7. What was the strange thing that happened two months before the murder of Sir Danvers Carew? He went to bed as Dr Jekyll and woke up as Mr Hyde. 48 Can you think of any other words ending in -ology? What do you they mean? Share your ideas with the class. The ‘Double’ in 19th-century Fiction A ‘double’ looks exactly like another person, while the phrase a ‘double personality’ is used about a person who behaves in two very different ways. Stevenson’s novel is so famous that in Morden English the phrase ‘a Jekyll and Hyde character’ refers to a person whose behavior varies enormously. But there are other stories in which the theme of the ‘double’ is important. William Wilson (1839), Edgar Allan Poe The American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) is famous for his horror stories. In one of them, William Wilson, the narrator, has a mysterious double with the same age and physical appearance as him, who follows him from when he is at school to when he is an adult. At the end of the story Wilson, who has started to lead a bad life, murders his ‘double,’ but his dying double tells Wilson that he, the double, was the better part of Wilson. The term for a crater who looks exactly the same as a real person is a ‘doppelganger’, a word which comes from German folklore. Frankenstain (1818), Mary Shelley In the famous novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), the scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a human being from parts of dead bodies. But when the creature finally comes to life, Frankenstein is horrified by his ugliness and runs away. The creature I terribly hurt by this, and follow his creator, murdering people in Frankenstein and his creature are like ‘father’ and ‘son’ but they also hate each other and try to kill each other: because of their father-son relationship and there love-hate behavior they become almost ’doubles’. The picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Oscar Wilde 1 In this short novel by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), a handsome young man, Dorian Grey, never seems to grow older. It is the picture of himself that he keeps secret, looked away at the top of his house, which gets older, not Dorian. He leads a very bad life, but people don’t know this and find him charming. At the end of the novel Doral is disgusted at how old and ugly his picture has become and attacks the picture which a knife, but when he does this he falls down dead. The picture once more shows a handsome young man, while Dorian’s dead body suddenly shows all the sings of age and bad living. 1. Comprehension check Compare the three stories with The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Make notes in the table. Which seems most similar? Elements similar to Stevenson’s novel Elements different to Stevenson’s novel William Wilson main character has led a bad life main character hates his double Main character leads a bad life up to the moment he dies double looks exactly like main character only one character dies at the end Frankenstein Main characters is a scientist Main character hates what he has done The ‘double’ commits murders Both characters die at the end the ‘double’ commits murders to punish his creator, not for pleasure the main character doesn’t main change into the other The Picture of Dorian Gray main character has a life in high society main character wants to repent and destroy his creation both characters die at the end there is a secret room in the house main character change into the other…. but only at the very end. the ‘double’ doesn’t have 48 a life; it is only a picture The Sad Conclusion I was Edward Hyde, and the police in London were looking everywhere for me! London was dangerous for Edward Hyde the murderer. I needed the powder from the laboratory. But how to get them? I did not trust the servants. Then I had an idea. I remembered Dr Lanyon. He could go to the laboratory for me! I went to a hotel, and I wrote a letter to Dr Lanyon. I asked him to go to the laboratory, and to bring the powders to his house. The doctor did what I asked. As soon as I took the powder in the doctor’s house, I was Dr Jekyll once more. When Dr Lanyon saw what happened when I took the powders, he was shocked. My old friend was frightened of me, I went back to the laboratory. Now a terrible tome began for me. Hyde was strong now, and he often came back. If I slept, I woke up to discover that I was Hyde. At the same time Dr Jekyll became ill and weak. Sometimes the powders did not work. Hyde and I lived together in the laboratory. We hated each other, and we feared each other. I feared him because he was evil. He feared me because I wanted to be good. Hyde wanted to live, and he was afraid of the police. I wanted to die, and Hyde was afraid that I would kill myself. He needed my body to live. Then I used the last of the powders. I sent Poole to the chemist to buy more. The new powders did not work. I sent him to another chemist, but they still did not work I sent him to anther chemist, but they still did not work. Again and again I sent Poole to look for the powders, but the result was always the same. Perhaps the original powders contained an impurity - and it was the impurity that made them work. I know the end is close. I will soon become Edward Hyde again. Without the powders, I will be Edward Hyde forever. He will sit here in my laboratory, and he will be afraid of the police. He, too, knows that the end is close. If the police find him, he will die in prison. Or will he find the courage to kill himself? I, Henry Jekyll, do not know. It is not important to me. These are the last moments of the life of your old friend. Now I will put down my pen and put an end to the unhappy life of Henry Jekyll. 1 A B call someone’s reputation damage an and to something give your head have money to somebody leave a story nod a choice put the police tell an explanation Can you remember where they occurred in the story? Look back through the chapters and try and I find them. 2. Word game Can you make at least six new words from the letters in these words? Use each letter in the words only once in the word. 1. LABORATORY at/or/bar/table/lay/rat/bay etc. 2. IDENTITIES it/tent/end/ties/die/sent/sit etc. 3. EXPERIMENTS men/sex/pen/seem/mine/meet/me etc. 3. Reading pictures A.❏❏ B.❏❏ C.❏❏ D.❏❏ 1. Put the pictures above in the other in which they occurred in the story. 2. Write a caption of one sentence under each picture. Try to write in a sensational style, like the style of a popular newspaper. 3. On your own, put them in an order a to d, where a is the picture that you find most horrific and d is the picture that you find least horrific. Compare your ideas in class.4. 4. The Incredible Hulk Read the passage below and make comparisons with Stevenson’s story. What is similar, what is different? The Hulk is a character from Marvel Comics (the picture shows one of the first covers). Since his first appearance in 1962, different writes and illustrators have varied the stories (for example, the Hulk was first grey and only later was shown as green), and there have been films and TV serials, but some elements have stayed the same. The brilliant physicist Dr Bruce Banner creates a powerful atomic bomb, but he is exposed to radiation. Later that night, Banner is transformed into the Hulk, an angry monster with superhuman strength. In early stories, Banner changes into the Hulk when the sun goes down and changes back at dawn, but in later versions the transformations happen when Banner feels angry or afraid. Banner lives in a constant state of anxiety, always worried that the master inside him take over. The stories often show Banner or the Hulk running away from the police or the armed forces, often because of destruction caused by the Hulk. INTERNET PROJECT 48 Film versions of the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde There have been many films made of Stevenson’s novel. Films often include a love interest, a girl that Jekyll/Hyde is attached to, which is not in Stevenson’s novel at all. Another major difference is that Stevenson creates a mystery about who Mr Hyde is, and we do not find out that Jekyll and Hyde at the same person until the end, although we suspect this. Film-markes, on the other hand, like to show the transformation scenes, so the audience find out early in the film that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. Connect to the Internet and go to www.blackcat-cideb.com or www.cideb.it. insert the title or part of the title of the book into our search engine. Open the page for The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Click on the internet project link. Go down the page until you find the title of this book and click on the relevant links for this project. Find the answers to these questions. 1. What are the names of the actors who played Dr Jekyll in the 1920, the 1931 and the 1941 versions of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? 2. What does the 1941 film version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde have in common with the films The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind? 3. Watch and listen to make-up artist Rick Baker talk about the transformation scenes in the 1931 and the 1941 film versions. • ►Does he think that black and white was more or less suitable that color for filming these transformations? • ►Does he say that Mr Hyde gets worse or stays the same as the sims progress? • ►Rick Beker uses two words to describe the appearance of Mr Hyde - what are they? What do you think Mr Hyde looks like in these films? 4. Watch the clip from the film of The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Rock ’n’ Roll Musical (2003). What do you think of the words of the song? Do you think the transformation is well done. 1