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Marianne meets a woman who she finds out is Philip’s niece. She discovers more about Philip and what happened to him. She begins to make sense of her strange experience. She also feels hope for the future.
1 . A seguir estão algumas palavras e expressões importantes extraídas dessa parte da história. Consulte as palavras que você não conhece no Word Bank.
nothing much left | ghost | secret | accident | make sense | experience
2 . Ouça e complete as frases abaixo com as palavras e expressões do exercício 1.
1 Darling, what’s the matter? You look as if you’ve seen a ………………….. .
2 All sorts of things were beginning to ……………….. now.
3 He died in a terrible ……………………… .
4 Maybe one day I’ll be able to tell Robert about my …………………….. .
5 It was burnt down. There was …………………….. of it.
6 She married a British soldier during the war. It was a ………………… marriage.
Do you know?
● Mr ‘Right’: a pessoa certa para se casar.
● Covent Garden: parte do centro de Londres com muitas lanchonetes e restaurantes.
3 . Diga se as afirmações abaixo são verdadeiras ou falsas de acordo com o que você ouviu nessa parte da história.
1 Marianne was meeting her friends at a restaurant.
2 Marianne is the first person to arrive at the restaurant.
3 Jill’s new friend is also called Marianne.
4 Jill tells Marianne who her friend is.
5 Dominique married a British soldier during the war.
6 Dominique helped the soldier escape.
7 The soldier brought Dominique back to live with him in England.
8 The soldier died when a bomb fell on the house.
9 Francoise knows where her aunt is buried.
10 Jill explains that she met Francoise through the internet.
4 . Complete o resumo da história que você ouviu com palavras do quadro abaixo.
front | station | name | diary | nobody | Francoise | Jill | burnt out | axe | train | follow | plants | upset | café | gravestone | early | France | job | two | disappears
Marianne meets a man on the (1) ……………. who seems a little strange but very friendly and pleasant. He gets off at the same (2) ……………….. . She finds she is looking forward to seeing him. The two start to talk about things and she tells him her sad story. She only really knows his first (3) …………………. .
She decides that she is starting to fall in love with him and must tell him next time. The train is too full and she can’t see him but she finds his (4) …………….. on the seat where he was sitting. The next time she sees him it is in London. They go to a (5) ……………… together. She decides to (6) ………………… him home one evening.
After a few days when she does not see him on her way home she catches sight of him. He seems (7) ……………… and doesn’t see her. He gets off at the usual stop and she follows him. He walks to a wood and (8) ………………… . She meets (9) …………….. people in the wood. They say they haven’t seen anybody and in any case (10) ………………… lives there. She finds a (11) ……………….. in the wood.
She tells (12) ………………. about her experience and they agree that she must go back to see if she can find the house in the wood. She decides to go back early the next morning as it’s the weekend. She gets up (13) …………………. and arrives at the station full of happiness. She runs through the wood and sees a house ahead of her.
Philip is in the (14) ………………… of the house and seems to be waiting for her. He looks upset but happy to see her. They spend the day happily together. He sees her off on the train.
Philip has said that he will be away for a while in (15) ………………… on business but he doesn’t reappear. She is busy now and doesn’t have the time to look for him. She has a new (16) …………………. and there is the start of a new relationship.
One day a few months later she decides to revisit the wood. She walks quickly to the wood. She can’t find the grave at first and then she comes across the remains of a (17) …………….. house.
The house had been burnt a long time ago and there are (18) …………………. growing all over it. She finds Philip’s (19) …………………. so she knows she did meet him there. As she makes her way back to the station she comes across the grave. It too is overgrown with weeds. There is more writing on it now. She takes the train back to her new life.
Marianne meets (20) ………………. who she discovers is Philip’s niece. She finds out more about him and what happened to him. For some reason the experience has given her hope for the future.
Word Bank
accident (substantivo) = acidente
bomb (substantivo) = bomba
experience (substantivo) = experiência
ghost (substantivo) = fantasma
make sense (verbo) = compreender
secret (substantivo) = segredo
Respostas:
Exercício 2
1 ghost
2 make sense
3 accident
4 experience
5 nothing much left
6 secret
Exercício 3
1 True
2 False
3 False
4 True
5 True
6 True
7 False
8 False
9 False
10 True
Exercício 4
1 train
2 station
3 name
4 diary
5 café
6 follow
7 upset
8 disappears
9 two
10 nobody
11 gravestone
12 Jill
13 early
14 front
15 France
16 job
17 burnt-out
18 plants
19 axe
20 Francoise