Les Misérables: Victor Hugo
Les Misérables: Victor Hugo
Les Misérables: Victor Hugo
Step Three
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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was their only free day. Their diet was Page 26 – exercise 2
also very poor. 1 beautiful
8 Green caps were for the prisoners 2 rich
sentenced to life imprisonment, and 3 kind
red caps were for all the others. 4 heavy
5 weak
CHAPTER TWO 6 build
7 dangerous
Before you read 8 greedy
9 unattractive
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10 dirty
1B 2A 3B 4B 5B 6B
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1 My sister used to collect stamps.
1 Fantine was thin, pale, had blue eyes 2 Robert used to design clothes.
and wore a cap over her beautiful 3 Brad used to rob banks.
blonde hair. 4 I used to play volleyball in high
2 Mrs Thénardier was the manager of school.
the inn, together with her husband.
3 Fantine left Paris because she was Page 28 – exercise 5A
looking for work in Montreuil. 1 convent
4 Fantine asked Mrs Thénardier to 2 desperate
look after her daughter. 3 greedy
5 Mr Thénardier wanted a lot of 4 dismissed
money to look after the little girl. 5 revenge
6 The Thénardiers treated Cosette Page 28 – exercise 5B
very poorly.
7 Mr Madeleine was the owner of a 1 greedy
glass factory that employed many 2 revenge
workers. He was also the mayor of 3 desperate
the town of Montreuil. 4 convent
8 Fauchelevent had a bad accident 5 dismissed
and Mr Madeleine saved his life. Page 29 – exercise 7
9 Mr Javert did not like Mr Madeleine 1C 2C 3B 4C
because he was convinced that he
had already seen him in the past, and
that he was a criminal. CHAPTER THREE
10 She lost her job at the factory
because some of the other workers Before you read
discovered her secret. Page 30 – exercise 1
11 She became ill because she ate very
1A 2A 3C 4A 5C
little and didn’t buy wood to warm her
house, since she had to save money Page 38 – exercise 1
and send it to the greedy Thénardiers. 1C 2C 3A 4B 5C
12 Fantine sold her beautiful long hair,
her teeth and then herself.
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Comprehension check
Read the sentences below and decide if each sentence is correct or
incorrect. If it is correct, mark A for YES. If it is not correct, mark B for
NO. Correct the incorrect sentences.
A B
1 Jean Valjean had no place to sleep because he didn’t have
enough money to pay the innkeeper.
2 Jean Valjean stole a silver candlestick from the bishop’s house.
3 Fantine asked the Thénardiers to look after her young daughter.
4 Mr Madeleine was the owner of a successful factory that
employed many of the people in Montreuil.
5 The police inspector, Javert, had a very high opinion of
Mr Madeleine and respected him.
6 Fantine never had enough money to send to the Thénardiers.
7 Javert wanted to arrest Fantine, but she escaped from the police.
8 Mr Madeleine and Javert went to the trial in Arras together.
9 Everyone was shocked by what happened at the trial in Arras.
10 Mr Madeleine took Cosette away from the greedy Thénardiers,
and together they left for Paris.
11 Jean Valjean and Cosette had to leave Gorbeau House because
the house was very old and dirty.
12 Cosette grew up in a convent.
13 Marius and Cosette first met at the Luxemboug Gardens and
fell in love.
14 Mr Jondrette was a kind old man.
15 Éponine took Marius to Cosette’s new home in Rue Plumet.
16 Marius was desperate because he could not marry Cosette.
17 Although Marius’s friends fought against the king’s soldiers,
Marius refused to fight.
18 Jean Valjean saved Marius’s life by carrying him through the
Paris sewers and taking him to Marius’s grandfather.
19 Mr Gillenormand looked after Marius for four months until he
got better, but he did not allow him to marry Cosette.
20 Jean Valjean never told anyone the truth about his past.
21 When Marius discovered that Jean Valjean had saved his life, he
and Cosette went to visit Valjean minutes before his death.