IIListening Activities
1.Find a word, a word combination or a sentence which has the similar meaning.
1.1“The fact is I’ve got some news for Mr. De Winter and I hardly know how to tell it to him.”
1.2“It’s very troublesome for you both that we can’t forget the past.”
1.3It was the little boat belonging to the dead Mrs. De Winter.
1.4Our marriage was all pretence from the very first.
1.5“But all the time I felt some doubt at the back of my mind.”
1.6“It doesn’t result in sanity – living with the devil.”
2.Complete the sentences.
2.1The horror of my morning…
2.3We never loved each other…
2.4No one would guess meeting her…
2.5She’s got the three things…
III Post-Listening Activities Speak on.
1.Captain Searle brings the news: in the course of inspecting wreckage Rebecca’s boat was found.
2.“We’ve lost our little chance of happiness.” Maxim tells the truth to his wife.
3.The bargain between Maxim and Rebecca. The reasons he accepted it.
4.The romantic note of the end of the section. The narrator declares her love for Maxim.
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The Real Rebecca
•Rebecca's adulterous behavior
•Maxim confronts Rebecca
I Pre-Listening Activities
Read and find the meanings of the following words and word
combinations in the dictionary. |
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Pageant |
pent up hatred a bad bout |
hearty jovial manner haggard |
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jerky sentences |
the property is entailed |
to play leapfrog smug locals |
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blasted tenants |
to be in the lee, under the cover of the headland ridge |
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to blunder |
plank spike |
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IIListening Activities
1.Find a word, a word combination or a sentence which has the similar meaning
1.15 unbearable, awful days
1.2The place was wild, lovely with a beauty of its own but needed urgently skill and care and money.
1.3“We had a disgusting scene.”
1.4“He began to come here regularly.”
1.5“He had a bad filthy reputation.”
1.6“I knew that I wouldn’t bear that filthy life any longer.”
2.Complete the sentences.
2.1They never knew how she…
2.2I wanted him to go on talking like this…
2.3I accused Rebecca of this.
2.4“If I had a child, Max, she said… III PostListening Activities
Speak on
1.Shabby sordid farce Rebecca played before friends and relations.
2.Rebecca began to grow careless.
3.Comment on the narrator’s words “ I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered and continued to suffer because they couldn’t break out of their own way of
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shyness and reserve and in the blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hit the truth.”
4.The last conversation between Max and Rebecca. Max is forced to kill her.
SECTION VII
Revelations
•An inquest is held
I Pre-Listening Activities
Read and find the meaning of the following words and word combinations in the dictionary.
Crypt to heel over (about a boat) in the pit of the stomach coroner planking scuttle
IIListening Activities
1.Find a word, a word combination or a sentence which has the similar meaning
1.1“She can’t prove anything.”
1.2“They’ll think that the boat turned over into the water and sank when she was in the cabin.”
1.3“I rebuilt Mrs. De Winter’s little boat.”
1.4“Was the boat in a good state to sail?”
2.Complete the sentences.
2.1That evening when Frith brought in the local paper…
2.2“So, all I want to know is…”
2.3When I examined the boat yesterday…
III PostListening Activities
Speak on
1.New-found strength and cunning of the narrator.
2.An inquest into Rebecca’s death is held. Evidence of Mr. Tabb, a boat-builder.
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SECTION VIII
Conflicting Evidence
•Suicide or murder?
•Mrs. Danvers delivers a surprise
I Pre-Listening Activities
Read and find the meaning of the following words and word combinations in the dictionary.
To lay one’s cards on the table exchange (about telephoning) to play for time.
IIListening Activities
1.Find a word, a word combination or a sentence which has the similar meaning
1.1“Julyan is on his way.”
1.2“You can produce no evidence at all.”
1.3“Then you know nothing of her wishes and plans.”
1.4“Can you tell me anything about the matter?”
2.Complete the sentences.
2.1“Mrs. Danvers, can you think of any reason…
2.2He looked at me for the first time that evening…
III PostListening Activities
Speak on
1.Mr. Favell tries to blackmail Max.
2.The investigation of Rebecca’s death goes on.
3.Mrs. Danvers is summoned
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SECTION IX
Rebecca’s Revenge
•Doctor Baker’s evidence
•The final pieces fall in place
Read and find the meanings of the following words and word combinations in the dictionary.
A strange incongruous party back premises (of the house) confessional malformation of uterus bluff
IIListening Activities
1.Find a word, a word combination or a sentence which has the similar meaning
1.1“You must think this is a very strange visit, Dr. Baker.”
1.2“I apologize a lot for disturbing you like this.”
1.3“I’ve never treated a Mrs. de Winter in my life.”
1.4“An operation would have been no use at all.”
1.5“Baker’s evidence will destroy it.”
1.6“He thinks Mrs. Danvers has left.”
2.Complete the sentences.
2.1“We do feel her appointment with you…”
2.2“The pain was slight as yet…”
2.3“If she has gone…”
III PostListening Activities
Speak on
1.Doctor Baker’s evidence.
2.Rebecca’s revengeful nature.
3.Manderley is on fire.
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