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The Secret Garden

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One day, in India, nine-year old Mary wakes up and finds that she’s all alone. She’s sent to England to live with an uncle she has never met. His house is a strange, lonely place where, little by little, she’ll discover secret after secret in a new and magical world.

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The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published as a book in 1911. Set in England at the start of the 20th century, it’s one of Burnett’s most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children’s literature. It tells the story of a little girl, Mary Lennox, who moves to England from India after her parents die. In the story, we see how Mary changes from a rude, sick girl to a sweet, healthy child, thanks to the Secret Garden. Mary starts to look after the garden, and through her love and care, the garden comes back to life, and happiness comes back to the Craven family when she becomes friends with Colin and helps him to get better.

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Contents

Main Characters

Before you read

Chapter 1

Activities

Chapter 2

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Chapter 3

Activities

Chapter 4

Activities

Chapter 5

Activities

Chapter 6

Activities

Chapter 7

Activities

Chapter 8

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Syllabus

The Forgotten Girl The Key New Friends Colin Spring Has Come I Will Live Forever! Magic In the Garden

Yorkshire Food

Main Characters

Mary

9 years old at the start of the story, she’s an unhappy child until she finds the secret garden.

Dickon

2 years older than Mary, he’s very good with animals and is very kind to Mary and Colin.

Colin

Colin is Mary’s cousin and they’re the same age. He gets better thanks to Mary and the secret garden.

Mr.Craven

A sad man because he has lost his wife. He travels around Europe, leaving his son Colin at home where the servants look after the poor boy.

Before you read

Vocabulary 1 Look at these words from The Secret Garden and

match each word with its definition as in the example.

a housemaid b clergyman c corridor d entrance hall

e nursery f doctor g kitchen

h housekeeper i official j gardener

1 ■ a person who looks after sick people. 2 ■ a person who works for his / her country. a a girl or woman who works in a big house, cleaning it. 3 ■ 4 ■ the head woman who tells others how to keep a big house in order. 5 ■ the empty space you find on entering a house. 6 ■ a long space with rooms that open off it. 7 ■ the room in a house where food is prepared. 8 ■ a person whose job is to look after a garden. 9 ■ a room in a big house where children are looked after. 10 ■ a man who works for the Church of England; he can get married.

Writing and Speaking 2A Now put the words in the table. Jobs

Places in a house

housemaid _______________________

_______________________

2B Now talk to a partner about the different rooms in your

house. Say which is your favourite room and why.

Reading A2 Key 3 Complete the text about The Secret Garden with one word

for each space. about a little girl called Mary The Secret Garden is a story ________ Lennox. Mary isn’t (1) ________ pretty and she’s often sick. Nobody loves her and she’s often horrible (2) ________ the people who look after her. At the start of the story, she’s living (3) ______ India with her parents, but they don’t have any time for (4) ________ daughter. Then Mary’s life changes when everyone in the house gets ill and they all die except her. She’s sent to her uncle in England, (5) ________ has a very big house, and it’s here that Mary hears about the secret garden that helps (6) ________to become a healthy, happy child.

Pair Work 4 At the start of the story, Mary is living in India.

Answer these questions with a partner. Use the Internet to help you. 21st

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Century Where is India? Skills How many people live in India? Which sport is India famous for? What is the Taj Mahal? What kind of food do they eat in India? What is Bollywood?

Listening 2 5 Listen to the first part of Chapter 1 and decide if these

sentences are true or false.

Mary was born in India. 1 Mary is a very pretty little girl. 2 Mary’s parents loved her very much. 3 Mary’s parents die because they have nothing to eat. 4 Everyone forgets about Mary. 5 A soldier finds Mary.

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Mary was born in India. Her parents have no time for her and she’s a selfish, angry child. One morning the servants are frightened but they won’t tell Mary why.

When Mary Lennox arrived at Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the ugliest child they knew. She was very thin and she looked1 angry. She was born in India and her hair and face were yellow because she was often ill. In India, Mary’s father was a Government official. Her mother was very beautiful and only liked going to parties. She didn’t want Mary, so an ayah2 looked after her daughter. The ayah had to do everything that Mary wanted so Mary became very selfish3. One very hot morning, when Mary was about nine, her ayah wasn’t there. That morning was mysterious4. The servants were frightened. No one wanted to tell her anything. Mary went into the garden and started to play under a tree. She played at making a flowerbed5 and put flowers into little heaps of earth6. 1

look give the idea that ayah the Indian name for a woman who looks after a child or chidren for a family as a job 3 selfish selfish people only think of themselves 4 mysterious strange 5 flowerbed 6 heap of earth 2

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Suddenly, she saw her mother come out with a young man. ‘Is it very bad?’ asked Mary’s mother. ‘Very bad. You should go away to the hills.’ At that moment there was a cry from the servants’ quarters1. ‘Someone has died! You didn’t say your servants were ill!’ ‘I didn’t know!’ Mary learned that there was cholera2 about. Her ayah was dead, and before the next day three other servants died. Mary hid in her room and was forgotten by everyone. Nobody thought of her, nobody wanted her. She cried and slept. When she woke, the house was silent3. She waited for someone to come and look for her. But no one came. She saw a little snake but she wasn’t frightened. Then she heard voices4. A soldier5 opened the door and saw Mary. ‘There’s a child here!’ he cried. ‘Who is she?’ ‘I’m Mary Lennox. Why does nobody come?’ asked Mary. 1

servants’ quarters where the servants eat and sleep cholera you can get cholera if you drink dirty water and become very ill or even die 3 silent no noise 4 voice you use your voice to speak or sing 5 soldier 2

People start dying of cholera in Mary’s house. Nobody looks after her and she goes and hides. When she wakes up she waits. Then a soldier finds her.

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‘They have all forgotten her!’ said the soldier to the others. ‘Poor child. There’s nobody left to come.’ That was how Mary discovered1 that her father and mother were dead and she was alone in the bungalow2. 3

Everyone in Mary’s house dies of cholera and she stays with a clergyman and his family until one day they tell her that she must go and stay with her uncle in England.

For a while Mary stayed with a poor English clergyman and his family, but not for long. One day, she was playing under a tree in the clergyman’s garden when his son, Basil, came. Mary was making a garden. ‘Go away!’ cried Mary. ‘I don’t like boys.’ The boy sang a song: Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And marigolds all in a row. The other children laughed and after that they called her “Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary”. One day, the clergyman’s wife told Mary she was going to sail away to England to the home of her uncle, Mr Archibald Craven.

discover find out bungalow a word from Bengali meaning a low house with one floor 2

Mary is hiding in the house and she sees a snake but she isn’t frightened of it. She doesn’t know yet that everyone has died of cholera.

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Mary isn’t very happy. She has to go and live with her uncle in a big empty house with nothing around it and they say her uncle isn’t a nice person.

‘He lives in a big, lonely house1 in the country and no one goes near him,’ said Basil. ‘He’s a hunchback2 and he’s horrid3.’ An officer’s wife went with Mary and they sailed to England on a big ship. In London, she met the housekeeper from Misselthwaite Manor, Mrs Medlock. Mrs Medlock was stout4, with a red face and dark brown eyes. Mary didn’t like her, which was normal for Mary, and Mrs Medlock didn’t like Mary. ‘She’s very plain5!’ said Mrs Medlock to the officer’s wife. Mary was very curious about her uncle. She was starting to feel lonely6. Other children seemed7 to belong to fathers and mothers, but she seemed to belong to no one. Even when her parents were alive8 she seemed to be no one’s little girl. Mary and Mrs Medlock took the train. Mrs Medlock told Mary about the house and its garden, about her uncle, his poor back and his dead wife. Mary didn’t feel cheerful9. A house with a hundred rooms, almost all closed, on the edge 1

lonely house a house with nothing around it 2 hunchback 3 horrid not friendly, horrible 4 stout big, fat and strong 5 plain not pretty

feel lonely feel sad because you have no friends: nobody who loves you 7 seem give the idea that 8 alive not dead 9 cheerful happy

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of1 a moor2, and a hunchback who had no friends! She looked out of the window at the rain and fell asleep3. When she woke it was dark and they were in a station. They got into a carriage4 and drove off. ‘What’s a moor?’ asked Mary suddenly. ‘Look out of the window in ten minutes and you’ll see,’ answered the woman. ‘You won’t see much because it’s a dark night, but you’ll see something.’ It was very dark and the wind made a strange sound. ‘Is the sea near here?’ asked Mary. ‘No, it’s just miles5 and miles of wild land,’ answered Mrs Medlock. After a while6 they saw a light. After another two miles they arrived at a long, low house. The door was huge7, and the entrance hall was enormous, full of portraits8 and armour9. Mary felt very small. She followed Mrs Medlock up a stair and down a long corridor, and another, and then into a room. ‘Here you are. This room and the next one are where you’ll live – and you must stay in them. 1

on the edge of next to moor a large area of natural land with no trees usually very windy and with no houses or farms 3 fall asleep start sleeping 2

carriage mile = 1.609 km 6 after a while after some time 7 huge enormous, very big 8 portrait painting of a person 9 armour 5

Mary arrives at her uncle’s house when it’s dark. Everything is very big and Mary feels very small. Mrs Medlock takes Mary to her rooms and says she must stay there.

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The next morning, Martha helps Mary. Martha is different from the servants in India. She doesn’t just do as she’s told but speaks to Mary, too. She tells Mary about her family and about the gardens outside. One garden that belonged to Mrs Craven is locked.

Don’t forget that!’ said Mrs Medlock. When Mary woke up next morning, Martha, a young housemaid, was lighting the fire1. ‘What’s that?’ asked Mary pointing out of the window. ‘The moor. Do you like it?’ asked Martha. Mary was surprised. In India servants only did what you told them to do. They didn’t ask questions. ‘No,’ answered Mary, ‘I hate it. Are you going to be my servant? Are you going to dress me?’ ‘Can’t you dress yourself?’ asked Martha, surprised. She helped Mary to dress. Mary had new clothes. They were nicer than her old clothes. ‘There are twelve of us in my family,’ said Martha. ‘Everyone learns to do things quickly and help the smaller ones. My brother, Dickon, he’s twelve, he’s got a young wild pony2.’ Mary was interested in Dickon and his pet. It was the start of a healthy feeling. She went into the next room and found her breakfast. ‘I don’t want it,’ she said. ‘You don’t want your food?’ exclaimed3 Martha. ‘It’s very good! My family never have full stomachs. They’re always hungry.’ ‘I don’t know how it feels to be hungry’ said Mary. 1

light the fire start the fire pony a small kind of horse 3 exclaim say something suddenly because you’re surprised 2

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Martha helped Mary to put on her boots, coat and hat, and sent her outside. ‘There are a lot of gardens, but one is locked1. It was Mrs Craven’s garden. Mr Craven locked it when she died ten years ago and no one can go there.’ Mary was curious about the locked garden, so she went outside to explore2. She met an old man. He told her the gardens were kitchen gardens3 and orchards4. Then she saw a bird with a red breast sitting on the top of a tree. ‘He’s a robin redbreast5, the friendliest bird alive,’ said the man. ‘He’s my only friend.’ ‘I have no friends,’ said Mary. I’ve never had any. My ayah didn’t like me and I never played with anyone.’ ‘Then we’re the same. We’re not good-looking and we both have bad tempers6.’ The man’s name was Ben Weatherstaff. Mary spoke to him for a while, and then asked him about the locked garden. Ben was angry. ‘I must get on with7 my work,’ he said. ‘Go and play.’ And he walked away without saying good bye. 1

locked closed with a key 2 explore look around 3 kitchen garden a garden where you grow vegetables 4 orchard where fruit trees grow 5 robin redbreast 6 have a bad temper get angry easily 7 get on with start or continue doing something

Mary meets and old man in the garden. He says they’re the same because they have no friends and have bad tempers. He tells Mary about the gardens but when she asks about the locked garden, he stops the conversation.

Think

Why do you think Mr Craven locked the garden after his wife died?

After-reading Activities • Chapter 1

Reading 1 Look at the sentences and say if they’re true (T) or false (F). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Mary likes playing at making gardens. Mary has no friends and not many people know about her. Other people usually like Mary very much. Mary goes to live in a big city. Mary can go anywhere she wants in the house. Mary can’t put on her clothes by herself. Mary’s new clothes are ugly. Martha’s family is very poor.

Grammar 2 Complete the sentences about Chapter 1 with the words

from the box.

anything everyone something someone nobody (3) anybody everything

anything . No one wanted to tell her __________

1 Mary hid in her room and was forgotten by __________ . 2 __________ thought of her, __________ wanted her. 3 She waited for __________ to come and look for her, but __________ came. 4 The old man didn’t like __________ . 5 In India, the servants did __________ for Mary. 6 ‘You won’t see much because it’s a dark night, but you’ll see __________ .

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Speaking and Writing 3 In Chapter 1, Mary has to leave India to go

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and live in England. Discuss these questions with a partner and write your answers.

1 Why do people decide to go and live in another country? 2 What problems do you think people can have when they move to another country? 3 Which country would you most like to visit? Why? 4 Why do you think it’s important to visit other countries? 5 Why is it important to study other languages? 6 What would you like to tell someone about the place where you live?

Before-reading Activity

Listening A2 Key 4 4 Listen to the first part of Chapter 2 and choose the correct

answer (A, B or C) for each question.

Every day… 3 At Misselthwaite… A ■ was different for Mary. A ■ it was hotter than in India. 3 Mary went outside. B ■ B ■ Mary felt less tired. C ■ Mary stayed in her room. C ■ there was no wind. 1 One day, she woke up 4 Why does Mr Craven hate and felt… the garden? A ■ hungry. A ■ Because his wife died there. B ■ angry. B ■ Because he doesn’t like C ■ sad. looking after it. 2 In the garden, she saw… C ■ Because nothing grows there.

A ■ the old man. B ■ Dickon’s pony. C ■ the robin.

5 A B C

What does Mary think she hears? ■ The sound of the rain. ■ The sound of the wind. ■ The sound of a child crying.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849

Frances Hodgson Burnett Born in 1849 in Manchester, England, she wrote both books and plays for the theatre.

Early life After her father’s death, her mother moved to Tennessee with her five children in 1865. Frances helped her poor family by selling the stories she wrote to ladies’ magazines. 1865

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1 What were the main misfortunes in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s life?

1874

Marriage and later life Married a doctor, Swann Burnett and had two sons, Lionel born in 1874, and Vivian born in 1875. The family travelled in Europe for several months but returned to the USA in 1876. After her son Lionel died when he was 15, she was often depressed. Her marriage broke up in 1898 and she went back to live in England, where she lived in Kent from 1898 to 1907. In 1900, she married again but it only lasted for two years, and in 1907, she moved back to the USA. 1876

Writing and Success In 1876, she published her first novel, That Lass o’Lowrie’s and it was very popular. She wrote books both for adults and children. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) was based on her son Vivian. Another popular novel was A Little Princess (1905) but her most famous book is The Secret Garden (1911). 1911

Cover of a vintage edition of The Secret Garden

1924

2 How do you think she travelled to England from the USA? How do people travel today? What are the main advantages and disadvantages of each means of transport?

Died 1924 in New York.

3 Do you think her life was conventional for the times? Why/ Why not?

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Children in 1911

Postcard of a young girl playing ‘mother’.

The turn of the century

Mary, Colin and Dickon live at the end of the Edwardian era, a period when there were a lot of social changes. In 1902, an Education Act gave control of schools to local government. In 1906, the government started “school dinners” to help poorer children eat better. In 1907, they also started medical examinations at school. They began to understand that it was important for children to go to school and in 1918, education became compulsory up to 14 years of age. Living in the remote countryside of Yorkshire, the children in this story didn’t know about the big social changes happening in the outside world. Questions

1 What is different about when children had to go to school in England in 1911 and in your country now?

2 What type of schools can you read about in the text? Who could go to them? 3 What is different about what Edwardian children did in their free time and what you do?

Education for rich children

Neither Colin nor Mary go to school. Children like them studied at home with someone who helped them with their lessons. Colin could then go to an expensive public school while Mary probably stayed at home. Middle class children could go to private boarding schools or day schools, primary and then secondary “grammar schools”.

Play for rich children

Mary learns to skip with a skipping rope sent by Mrs Sowerby. All children played with skipping ropes and other simple toys. Mary also receives books and a writing set from Mr Craven: these were expensive presents that only people with a lot of money could buy. Girls from rich families also had richly dressed wax or porcelain dolls, while the boys had mechanical toys. Rich Edwardian children couldn’t really do what they wanted and usually only visited their friends for tea.

Education for the poorer

Sport

Dickon doesn’t go to school as he’s over 10. The cost of a school is too much for his mother, even though it became popular in this period to offer free places to bright children at grammar schools. More and more poorer children started to go to school. In a primary school like Dickon’s, the subjects were “the three Rs” – reading, writing and arithmetic, and not much else.

Playtime for the poorer

Children no longer worked in factories and started to enjoy doing the things that children usually do. They played with simple homemade toys. Poorer children had a lot of freedom and usually met in the street or out in the fields to play. They could play more in groups than rich children who spent more time alone at home.

Sport in Britain was very popular with everyone. Some sports, like rugby and horse riding, were for the wealthy and middle classes (women increasingly enjoyed sports like tennis), but others were universal, like boxing and athletics. Wealthy girls wore restrictive long skirts and corsets but the boys were freer to move. Two Londeners doing the long jump in Hertfordshire

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Yorkshire Food Yorkshire

Yorkshire’s name comes from the city of York. It is the biggest county in England. Much of it is natural countryside and it’s famous for its moors. There are some farms in the north of the county. Yorkshire has several industrial towns, like Bradford and Leeds, and was famous for coal mining. There is also a fishing industry. Yorkshire can be very cold, windy and wet in winter. Until recently, most working people had very hard lives outside in the cold or in factories, in coal mines or fishing. People had to work very hard for very little money. They ate cheap, heavy food because they needed to work long hours. Now people prefer food that is healthier for them.

Meat, Fish and Dairy Products

The most popular meat in Yorkshire is beef. Fish comes from the North Sea, and is usually eaten with chips. Eggs and milk were also popular foods for working people. Yorkshire has a special, strong cheese called Wensleydale.

Sweets

Sweet things such as muffins or scones are popular, with jam and cream. In the past, since sugar was very cheap, people ate lots of cakes and biscuits. Yorkshire is still famous for its cakes. A famous cake is Parkin: a sweet, dark ginger cake made only in Yorkshire.

Fruit and Vegetables

At this time, people could only buy the fruit and vegetables that were grown in their own country. In Yorkshire, people ate vegetables, like potatoes, carrots and beans. People still eat a lot of potatoes today. You can also find fruit, like apples and pears growing in Yorkshire.

Muffins

Parkin

Roast beef

Yorkshire Pudding

The best known Yorkshire dish is Yorkshire pudding, traditionally eaten with roast beef for Sunday lunch. Mix 100g plain white flour and 1/4 teaspoon of salt in a bowl. Drop in an egg. Start to mix, gradually adding most of 300ml of milk. Beat well to obtain a smooth batter and then stir in the rest of the milk. Place a drop of oil in each of the spaces in a muffin tin. Heat in the oven until the oil is hot. Half fill each well with batter. Bake in a hot oven for 15-20 minutes. Questions

1 Why did people eat heavier food in the past? 2 Look in your dictionaries and find these verbs: roast stew fry bake Do you eat food cooked in this way? Which methods of cooking do you think are better for you?

Yorkshire pudding

Curious Fact

Apparently, liquorice was invented in Yorkshire by monks when crusaders brought the plant back in the Middle Ages.

3 Look back at the various foods on p. 92. Does your country make any of these foods? Would you like to try any of them? 4 Is Yorkshire pudding sweet or salty? Can you write what you need for a traditional dish from your area?

Test Yourself 1 Read the summary of The Secret Garden. There are six

mistakes. Find them and correct them. The first one is done for you as an example. Mary is a little girl who lives in India. One day she wakes up alone and discovers that her parents have died. She travels to England to live in Cornwall with her uncle, Archibald Craven, in a large house on the moor. There, she meets Martha, a cook, and her brother Dickon, who is very clever with animals. Dickon helps her in the secret garden, a garden Mr Craven locked when his sister died. Mary also discovers that she has a cousin, Colin, who stays closed in a sitting room because he is sick. She and Dickon take Colin to the garden and with Ben Weatherstaff’s help they all bring it back to life. Colin is very unhappy in the garden but learns to walk. When Mr Craven comes home, he’s very angry about the garden and the fact that his son is better. Yorkshire ____________ 1 ____________ 2 ____________ 3 ____________ 4 ____________ 5 ____________

2 Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense in these

sentences from The Secret Garden. took the train. Mary and Mrs Medlock (take) ________ 1 ‘Don’t move,’ he said. ‘You (scare) ________ them.’ 2 The next day it rained and Mary (can) ________ not go out. 3 When she went into Colin’s room he (lie) ________ on his bed. 4 I (stand) ________ when Ben Weatherstaff gets here. 5 Dickon’s mother laughed. ‘I (make) ________ some bread and buns and send them,’ she said. 6 But he found he (try) ________ to believe better things.

Syllabus Verb tenses Simple present: states and habits Present continuous: actions in progress Past simple: past actions at a finished time Past continuous: actions in progress at a point in the past interrupted by a past action Present perfect: (with just, yet, already, never, ever, for, since) Future forms: present continuous, going to, will Modal verbs Can: ability, permission; Could: ability, permission in the past May: permission, possibility; Must: obligation; Have to: necessity Will: offers, spontaneous decisions for future, predictions Verb forms Affirmative, negative, interrogative Imperatives Infinitives Gerunds Passive forms: present and past simple Types of clause Main clause Subordinate clause following sure, certain, know, think, believe, hope, say, tell, if Subordinate clauses following if, when, where, because Adjectives Possessive Demonstrative Quantative Comparative and superlative forms Lexical Areas clothing, home and garden, jobs, emotions, games and toys, family, animals

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