P e n g u i n R e a d e r s F a c t s h e e t s
4 Discuss this question with other students. Why are
stories and films about people surviving natural
disasters (floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
etc.) so popular?
‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and ‘The Stolen Letter’
1 Answer these questions.
(a) How does the prisoner measure the dimensions of his
cell?
(b) What food and drink is the prisoner given?
(c) What is painted on the ceiling of the cell?
(d) How does the prisoner free himself when he is tied to
the bed?
(e) Who rescues the prisoner at the end of the story?
2 Who is talking and whom are they talking to?
(a) ‘That is another of your strange ideas.’
(b) ‘Give us more details.’
(c) ‘The Paris police are very clever in the ordinary way.’
(d) ‘How much was the reward, did you say?’
(e) ‘But is D___________ really a poet?’
(f) ‘You know my political views.’
3 Act out a conversation in which the prisoner tells his
story to his rescuers.
4 Work in pairs. Write lists of adjectives to describe the
characters of the narrator, Monsieur G___________ and
C. Auguste Dupin. Then read your adjectives to
another student and have them guess which character
they describe.
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