Literature Spot Great Expectations

Great Expectations: Pip meets Miss Havisham

Next, listen to two students talking about the novel.

1 Why is James going to read Great Expectations?

2 Why is James concerned about reading the novel?

3 What themes in the novel does the boy mention?

4 Why will Harvey not tell James about the central question?

3 Look at the picture on page 63 and read the extract. Which characters are shown in the pictures?

1 □ Mrs Joe believes that going to Miss Havisham’s house will improve Pip’s situation in life.

2 □ Pip has a positive first impression of Estella.

3 □ Pip was surprised at being asked to play by Miss Havisham.

4 □ Pip tells Miss Havisham exactly what he thinks about Estella.

5 □ Estella put Pip’s food on the ground to make him feel bad.

6 □ Pip agrees with the advice Joe gives him after his visit to Miss Havisham’s house.

1 He looks messy and untidy. He hasn’t brushed his hair and his shirt is untucked.

2 All my plants died because I forgot to water them.

3 My grandfather swept the roads. He had a very low social position in life.

4 There’s no one quite like my strange and unusual uncle who wears old-fashioned clothes and reads books to his plants.

5 What a sad, dark place this is.

6 ‘Don’t you know what four plus four is?’ the boy laughingly and cruelly said to his little brother.

7 The wall was old and falling apart into small pieces.

1 Then she jumped on me like an eagle on a lamb.

2 As I stood before her, I noticed the clocks, all stopped at twenty minutes to nine.

3 Tears sprang to my eyes.

1 Why do you think Miss Havisham is wearing such strange clothes?

2 Why do you think Miss Havisham wants Pip to play with Estella?