AFTER-READING ACTIVITIES

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8.Decide if the following statements are true or false.

· Miss Sidley is an inexperienced teacher.

· Her favorite means of managing children is persuasion.

· Miss Sidley's attention is distracted by Robert's behavior.

· The teacher suffers from hallucinations.

9. Study Miss Sidley's professional profile. Point out the professional qualities she possesses providing examples from the story.

10. Study the text for telling descriptions. Find the author's variant of expressing any of the following ideas.

e.g. Miss Sidley's eyes could make anyone shake with fear. =

Her eyes “could turn the stoutest knees to water”.

· She managed to put the principle to practice, and it always worked.

· Robert would do something for which he could be severely punished.

· Like all teachers keen on discipline she had an ability to understand deeper.

· The next day she was quite irritable.

· She was afraid to ask the student to do the task.

· It would be an act of compassion to help him out of his trouble.

· The papers demanded energetically there should be a trial.

· Finally, the general opinion was that there should be no public scandal.

· In the end, he was not able to stop watching the kids.

11. Describe the events happening at the school from different points of view. The tentative perspectives are the following:

· Buddy Jenkins, the psychiatrist

· A fellow teacher

· A local paper reporter

· The school principal

12.Let us focus on style. Read the imaginary coverage of Miss Sidley's case in a local paper. The description is dry and toneless. Rewrite it making it sound quite different.