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Chapter One

 

 

  • Chapter One

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The summary of the chapter

  • Many people came to the English towns to find work in factories.
  • At that time, people were so poor and looked for places to sleep and food to eat.
  • Poor people went to the workhouses where they could find a bed to sleep and some sort of food to eat.
  • An unknown young woman who was ill and weak arrived at one of the workhouses.
  • The woman gave birth to a baby boy called Oliver Twist and died.
  • Oliver was sent to live with other orphans in an orphanage.
  • Mrs. Mann who looked after the orphans gave them little food to eat.
  • When Oliver became nine, Mr.Bumble who was an official from the workhouse, came to take him from the orphanage to work in the workhouse.
  • All Oliver and the boys ate there was a thin soup.
  • Oliver was chosen by the boys to ask for more food.
  • As a result, Oliver was locked in a cold, dark room and was beaten by Mr.Bumble in front of the other boys every day.
  • Oliver had to leave the workhouse afterwards.
  • Mr.Sowerberry, the coffin maker took Oliver as an apprentice.
  • Oliver spent a bad night among unfinished coffins.
  • Noah Claypole, who helped Mr.Sowerberry, treated Oliver rudely and insulted his mother.
  • Oliver was so ashamed and angry that he hit Noah hard.
  • Mr.Bumble came and blamed Mrs. Sowerberry saying that she had given Oliver too much meat.
  • Mr. Bumble advised that Oliver should be left in a cellar for a few days without food then he must be fed with only soup.
  • Because life was unbearable at Mr.Sowerberry’s house, Oliver ran away.

 

Revolution ثورة                                                                               

Industry صناعة                                                                              

Industrial صناعى                                                                          

Workhouse ملجأ                                                                          

Sort= kind= type نوع                                            

Breathe (v.) يتنفس                                                          

Breath (n.) نفس                                                       

Live (v.) يعيش                                                        

Life (n.) حياة                                                                             

Wretch تعيس                                                               

Introduce يقدم                                   

 

Realize = realise يدرك                                                       

Comfortable مريح                                                       

Uncomfortable غير مريح                                         

Starving يتضور جوعاً                                                             

Generous كريم                                                    

Generosity كرم                                 

 

Message                      رسالة                                                      

Lock (v.) يغلق /يقفل                                                                   

Lock قفل / حبس                                   

 

Downstairs الطابق السفلي                      

 

Upstairs الطابق العلوى                                                               

Apprentice                         صبي مهنة                                     

Chapter فصل                                                       

Beat يضرب                                        

 

Gate بوابة                                                                                              

Tiny ضئيل / صغير                                  

 

Gently برفق                                         

 

Cheek خد                                           

 

Beautiful جميل                                                     

Orphans أيتام                                                            

Destitute محروم/ فقير/ مشرد                                   

Destitution فقر/ تشرد                                              

Decide يقرر                                                                                        

Decision قرار                                       

 

Inside بالداخل                                         

Outside بالخارج                                

 

Official موظف رسمي                           

 

Look after يعتني بـ                            

 

Look for يبحث عن                             

                                   

Look at ينظر إلى                                                 

Look through ينظر من خلال                              

Look like يشبه                                                        

Look up يبحث عن معنى كلمة فى قاموس                 

Look out يحترس                                                               

Furious شديد الغضب                                                      

Immediately فى الحال                                                 

Manager مدير                                                               

Opportunity فرصة                                                           

Coffin maker صانع الأكفان                                            

Coffin تابوت                                                             

Surrounded by محاط بـ                                                      

Make sure يتأكد                                                                         

Please يرضى                                                                              

Pleased (adj.) راضي                                            

Ashamed خزى/ عار                                                              

Awake (adj.) مستيقظ                                                   

Asleep (adj.) نائم                                                         

Wake (v.) يستيقظ                                                  

Sleep نائم                                                                             

Shout يصيح                                                                 

Menace يهدد                                                                          

Menacing تهديد / وعيد                                     

Weak ضعيف                                                                       

Hit يضرب                                                                                     

Bear يتحمل                                                                                  

Bearable قادر على التحمل                                 

Unbearable لا يحتمل                                                               

Stay يبقى / يمكث                                                                  

Soup شوربة                                                                     

Leave يغادر                                                                             

Cellar بدروم                                                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary

 

  • Revolution (n.) a time of great social change especially the changing of a ruler and or political system by force.
  • Revolution (n.) A complete change in ways of thinking or acting.
  • Industry (n.) The work of factories and large organization generally.
  • Industry (n.) a particular sort of work usually employing lots of people and using machinery to produce goods.
  • Industrial (adj.) related with industry and the people who work in it.
  • Workhouse = orphanage (n.) a place where orphan children live.
  • Orphan (n.) a person especially a child lacking one or usually both parents.
  • Breath (n.) air taken into and breathed out of the lungs.
  • Breathe (v.) To take air into the lungs and send it out again .
  • Wretch (n.) a poor or unhappy person.
  • Starve (v.) to cause to die or suffer from lack of food.
  • Starvation (n.) suffering or death from lack of food.
  • Apprentice (n.) a person who is under an agreement to serve for a number of years and usually for low wages, a person skilled in a trade in order to learn that person’s skill.
  • Chapter (n.) one of the main divisions of a book or long article usually having a number or title.
  • Gate (n.) a movable frame, often with bars across it, which closes an opening in a fence , wall.
  • Tiny (adj.) very small indeed.
  • Gently (adv.) not rough or violent in manner or movement , kind, soft.
  • Cheek (n.) The part of the face below the eye especially in human beings.
  • Destitute (adj.) completely without food, clothing, shelter or the money to buy them.  Destitution (n.)
  • Decide (v.) to arrive at an answer or an end to uncertainty about. To make choice or judgment.     Decision (n.)
  • Official (n.) a person who work for the government or other large organization in a position of responsibility.
  • Furious (adj.) very angry in an uncontrolled way.
  • Furiously (adv.)         furiousness (n.)
  • Immediately (adv.) at once.
  • Manager (n.) a person who directs the affairs of a business.
  • Opportunity (n.) chance.
  • Coffin (n.) the box in which a dead person is buried.
  • Sure (v.) certain about something.
  • Make sure(v.) to check that something is true or that something has been done.
  • Ashamed (adj.) feeling embarrassed or guilty about something.
  • Awake (adj.) not be sleeping.
  • Awake (v.) to make someone wake up.
  • Asleep (adj.) sleeping.
  • Shout (v.) to say something very loudly.
  • Menace (v.) to threaten someone or something.
  • Menacing (adj.) making you expect something dangerous or bad.
  • Weak (adj.) not having much strength or energy – not powerful. Not having much ability or skill at doing something.
  • Bear (v.) to support the weight of something.
  • Bearable (adj.) difficult or unpleasant but you can deal with it.   Unbearable (opposite)
  • Cellar (n.) a room under the house.
  • Stay (v.) to continue to be the same as before and not change.
  • Stay (v.) to continue to be in the same place , job, school.
  • Hit (v.) to swing your hand or something held in your hand, hard against someone or something.
  • Soup (n.) a hot liquid food that usually has pieces of meat or vegetables in it.

 

Questions and answers

 

1-1) Describe England during the industrial Revolution.

 

a-Factories were beginning to open allover England.

 

b-They needed people work.

 

c-Many people were so poor that they couldn’t buy enough to eat.

 

d-They had nowhere to sleep.

 

e-They went to workhouse where at least they had a bed and some sort of food to eat.

 

 

 

2) Who was the baby boy?

 

Oliver Twist.

 

 

 

3)Where was Oliver sent after his mother’s death?

 

To live with Mrs.Mann in an old building as (orphanage)

 

 

 

4)Describe Oliver on his ninth birthday.

 

a) small                    b)weak child                 c) didn’t go to school

 

d) didn’t know the world outside.

 

e) spent all the nine years in an old building.

 

 

 

5) What do you know about Mrs.Mann?

 

a)Mrs.Mann was the woman who look after the orphans.

 

b) She was given a little money that she was given to look after orphans.

 

 

 

6) Who was Mr. Bumble?

 

He was an official from the workhouse where the older children from poor families were big enough to work for their food.

 

 

 

7) What happened to Oliver on his ninth birthday?

 

Mr. Bumble took him to the workhouse.

 

 

 

8) Why was oliver sad?

 

He was sad to leave his friends and the only home he had everknown.

 

 

 

9) What was a workhouse?

 

A workhouse was a place where homeless people lived and were given food. They had to work for that.

 

 

 

10) What did Oliver feel when he left Mrs. Mann?

 

He felt wretched as the door to the house was closed behind him.

 

 

 

11) How was the life at the workhouse?

 

Life was very difficult at the workhouse because:

 

a)The workhouse was a large cold building.

b)All the boys there were thin and weak and had to work hard.

c)They wore old clothes that were too big for them.

d)The beds were uncomfortable. e) The food was never enough.

e)All they eat there was a thin soup so the boys were always hungry and so close to starving.

 

 

12) What did the boys at the workhouse eat?

 

All they ate was a thin soup.

 

 

 

13) What did the boys at the workhouse decide to do concerning food?

 

They made a plan. They decided they must have more food, and chose Oliver to ask for it.

 

 

14) How was Oliver punished when he asked for more food?

 

He was locked in a cold, dark room and was beaten by Mr.Bumble in front of the other boys every day.

 

 

 

15) What did the message which was put on the door of the workhouse say?

 

It said that the workhouse would give five pounds to anyone who would take Oliver away from the workhouse.

 

 

 

16) Who was Mr.Sowerberry?

 

He was a coffin maker. He took Oliver from the workhouse to work for him as an apprentice.

 

 

17) Why did Oliver cry when he left the workhouse?

 

He cried because he had left all his friends at the workhouse and became without friends.

 

 

 

18) How did Mrs.Sowerberry treat Oliver?

 

She gave him old food they had not eaten. She led him to sleep done down in the shop among unfinished coffins.

 

 

 

19)Where did Oliver sleep in Mr.Sowerberry’s house?

 

He slept alone in a strange, dark room surrounded by unfinished coffins.

 

 

 

20) Who was Noah Claypole?

 

He was a boy who helped Mr.Sowerberry. He was tall with a red nose.

 

 

 

21) How did Noah Claypole insult Oliver?

 

He called Oliver”workhouse boy” and he said that Oliver’s mother died in the workhouse because she was no good at anything and that if she hadn’t died, they would have punished her.

 

 

 

22) How did Oliver react when Noah insulted his mother?

 

Oliver felt both ashamed and angry so he hit Noah hard.

 

 

 

23) How was Oliver punished for attacking Noah?

 

He was pulled into a dark cellar and was locked in.

 

 

 

24) What was Mr.Bumble’s explanation for Oliver’s behavior at the Sowerberry’s house?

 

He said that Oliver had been given too much meat at the Sowerberry’s house and that Mrs.Sowerberry had been too kind to him.

 

 

 

25) What did Mr.Bumble advise Mrs.Sowerberry to do with Oliver?

 

He advised her to leave him in the cellar without food for a few days, then to feed him only soup and not to be kind to him.

 

 

 

26) Why did Oliver run away from Mr.Sowerberry’s?

 

Because his life there was unbearable there.

 

 

 

Read the following quotations then answer the questions:

 

1-“ can I see my new baby”

 

a-Who are the speakers?

 

b- Who was that baby?

 

c- What happened to the mother after she had seen her baby?

 

 

2-“please, sir. I want some more.”

 

a-Who are the speakers?

 

b- What did one of the speakers ask for?

 

 

 

3-“But it will cost money to feed him.”

 

a-Who are the speakers?

 

b- What does the underlined word “him” refer to?

 

 

 

4-“I help Mr.Sowerberry. You do what I say, workhouse boy.”

 

a-Who are the speakers?

 

b- Who was Mr.Sowerberry?

 

c- How did one of the speakers help Mr.Sowerberry?

 

 

 

5-“I heard she died in the workhouse because she was no good at anything.”

 

a-Who are the speakers?

 

b- What does the underlined word ”she” refer to?

 

 

 

6-“I understand the problem you’ve given him too much meat, MrsSowerberry.”

 

a-Who are the speakers?

 

b-What does the underlined word ”him” refer to?

 

 

 

Find the mistakes in each of the following sentences and correct them:

 

1-The events of “Oliver Twist” took place during the Economical Revolution.

 

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2-A lighthouse is a place where poor and homeless people went to have a bed and some sort of food.

 

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3-After Oliver had been born, the nurse asked to see him.

 

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4-Mrs.Mann used to give the orphans much food to eat.

 

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5-Mr.Bumble was an actor from the workhouse.

 

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6-The children in the workhouse were wearing new clothes.

 

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7-Mr.Sowerberry was a shoe maker.

 

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8-Oliver worked for Mr.Sowerberry as an official.

 

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9-Noah was Mr.Sowerberr’s son.

 

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10-Life at Mr.Sowerberry’s house was bearable so Oliver ran away.

 

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