The Characters Are

The characters are: a mother , her teenage daughter and a rather young man / 2

a twelve-year-old girl, her school friend and an old man

a young girl, her mother and her uncle

a woman with her daughter, and a quite old man

The places of action are in / at: a London street, a school, a hairdresser’s and a pub

a street, a dentist’s, a taxi and a church

a doctor’s, a supermarket, a restaurant and a cinema

a dentist’s, a café, a street, a pub

The weather was: horrible nice

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Circle the adjectives concerning “The Umbrella Man”: young old tall small polite pink-faced big-nosed sunburnt French-speaking rich-looking nicely-dressed clever stupid thirsty hungry

Circle the adjectives describing the woman: in her thirties old suspicious sweet-looking

grey-haired barefooted quiet

Find the right order of this summary / 13

a. After the dentist and the café, the two women wanted to go home.

b. As the rain was pouring, they wanted to take a taxi.

c. Suddenly a man with an umbrella came up to them.

d. He wanted to sell them his umbrella in return for taxi-fare back to his home.

e. He added that he was too old to walk home.

f. The lady thought it was better to simply give him the taxi-fare.

g. But the man insisted that they take the umbrella.

h. The two women couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw the man quickly cross the street and hurry away.

i. He didn’t look as if he was trying to get a taxi either !

j. They quickly followed him as he ran through the rainy streets.

k. Finally they saw him enter a pub.

l. They watched through the pub window.

m. They saw the man pay his drink with a £1 note.

n. Just before leaving the pub, the man casually took one of the umbrellas hanging on the coat-rack.

o. Then they understood the trick !

Vocabulary crosswords Hot P / 20

Roald’s parents were this nationality (9) Norwegian

Country west of England where he was born and whose capital is Cardiff (5) Wales

Roald’s job in the R.A.F. (5) pilot

“Charlie and this factory” (9) chocolate

It’s wet and falls down from the grey sky (4) rain

Title of Roald’s autobiography about his youth (3) boy

Typical British place where you can have drinks but where you’re not allowed if you’re under eighteen (3) pub

Something to protect yourself against the rain (8) umbrella

A means of transport which is usually yellow in NY, and black in the British capital (4) taxi

Someone who fills holes in teeth (7) dentist

The umbrella is made of this material (4) silk

Three times the normal measure (6) treble

You keep your money in it and the man has forgotten his (6) wallet

British money; the umbrella is worth twenty (5) pound

The man’s favourite drink (6) whisky

Synonym for “wealthy” (4) rich

Colour of Roald’s humour (5) black

Someone who plays tricks (9) trickster

Opposite of “honest” (9) dishonest

To put into a pocket (6) pocket