The client Guide for home reading

The Client CHAPTER 1 Are these true or false? Write T or F. Write the false sentences again so they are true. (a) Mark and Ricky go to the secret hiding place after school. (b) Mark and Ricky live with their Mum and Dad in a trailer park. (c) Mark started smoking two years ago. (d) The man sees Mark when Mark pulls the tube away from the tail pipe. (e) Romey is a lawyer who is working for the Mafia. (f) Romey wants to kill himself because there is a body in his garage. (g) Ricky saves his brother. (h) Ricky sees Romey shoot himself. (i) Mark is afraid to give the police his name. ________________________________________________________________________________ CHAPTERS 2–3 1 Shut your book. Can you remember who says the following to whom and where? (a) ‘How did you cut your face?’ (b) ‘We’ve found the body.’ (c) ‘Did you see the man before he shot himself?’ (d) ‘Do you think I’m lying?’ Now match these answers to the sentences above. Don’t look at the book! (i) ‘What body?’ (ii) ‘No, sir.’ (iii) ‘I don’t know, kid’ (iv) ‘It’s long story’ 2 Match these people with the facts about them: (a) Barry the Blade (b) Jerome Clifford (c) Roy Foltrigg (d) Slick Moeller (e) Jason McThune (f) Larry Truman (i) was an FBI detective from Memphis (ii) was a newspaper reporter. (iii) lived in New Orleans. (iv) was Barry’s lawyer. (v) was an FBI detective from New Orleans (vi) worked for the US Government as a lawyer. CHAPTER 4 Are these sentences facts or possibilities? Write F or P. (a) The man in the wheel chair broke his legs in a road accident. (b) Gill Teal will be able to get more than $600,000 dollars from Exxon for the man. (c) Mark takes Gill Teal’s card because he thinks it will be useful. (d) Clifford bought his gun in Memphis. (e) He had taken drugs. (f) He wanted to die in Memphis because he was born there. CHAPTERS 5–6 Finish these sentences. (a) Ricky does not wake up because ..................... . (b) Ricky must see his mother when he wakes up because ..................... . (c) Mark feels sick when he sees the newspaper because ..................... . (d) Mark knows about the Mafia because ..................... . (e) Gill Teal is not the right lawyer for Mark because ..................... . (f) Mark goes into Reggie Love’s office because ..................... . (g) Reggie Love will see Mark because ..................... . CHAPTER 7 Talk about these questions with a partner or write your answers. (a) In the introduction, Reggie Love is called ‘unusual’. In what ways is she unusual? (b) Mark likes Reggie Love. Why? (c) Why does Reggie ask Mark to pay her something? (d) Is Reggie Love a good lawyer? (e) Why does Mark tell the truth to a lawyer but not his mother? CHAPTERS 8–9 Look at these sentences and: Say who is talking. Say who the person is talking to. Look at the words in black letters and say who or what the person is talking about. (a) ‘He woke up about two hours ago’ (b) ‘Perfect ... Let’s go down.’ (c) ‘Why don’t you want to answer the question .. ?’ (d) ‘We maybe joked about that.’ (e) ‘Now tell me what you want to know from my client.’ (f) ‘First we need to know if they know something.’ (g) ‘The cops say you know more about it than you’re telling.’ (h) ‘She’s working for a dollar?’ (i) ‘It might help him to help Ricky.’ (j) ‘You’ve done nothing wrong, trying to help that man.’ CHAPTERS 10–11 Number these 1–10 to show the order in which they happened: (a) Gronke frightens Mark in the lift. __ (b) Gronke goes to the Tucker Trailer park. __ (c) Foltrigg goes to Reggie’s office. __ (d) Mark goes down to the cafe for breakfast. __ (e) Mark stays with Reggie at her mother’s house. __ (f) Dr Greenway tries to question Ricky. __ (g) Mark sees his and Ricky’s photos in the newspaper. __ (h) Reggie sees that Mark has changed his mind about talking to the FBI. __ (i) Mark sees someone watching Reggie’s mother’s house. __ (j) Mark goes to see Reggie. __ Chapters 12–13 Check the word information in your dictionary. Match these half sentences. (a) Diane is very upset because (b) Mark agrees to go to prison (c) Mark is happy because (d) Reggie cannot advise Mark (e) Slick Moeller pays one of the court guards (f) Mark could not lie in court so (g) Foltrigg thinks that (h) The FBI wants to offer the Sways a new life if (i) Mark is afraid that (i) he has played a joke on Detective Klickman. (ii) Mark gives evidence against the Mafia. (iii) he decided to say nothing. (iv)his little brother is going to die. (v) to give him secret information. (vi) to lie in cour t (vii) when Ricky appears at the door. (viii) the court in New Orleans can make Mark talk. (ix) their trailer burnt down. Chapters 14–15 Discuss these questions with a partner or write your answers: (a) What is Gronke’s opinion of Barry the Blade? (b) What is Judge Roosevelt’s opinion of Slick Moeller? (c) What is Mark’s opinion of the witness protection programme? (d) What is your opinion of Mark’s plan? CHAPTER 16 Complete the following with words from this chapter. Use one word for each line: Barry Muldanno was ................ ................ fear. He wanted to move ................ ................. Although Johnny told Barry he was ................, he gave Barry ................ ................ to help him. Reggie and Mark hid ................ Clifford’s house until ................. . While they were crawling ................ ................ ................, they saw a ................ in the garage. It was Muldanno and his men ................ ................ the body. Reggie ................ towards the house next door and broke the window. Muldanno and his men ................. . When everything was ................ ................, Reggie and Mark went to ................ in the ................. They found the ................ ................ in a ................ ................. Who did Reggie phone at the end of Chapter 16? Write the conversation between Reggie and the person she spoke to. Chapter 17 Finish the sentences: (a) Muldanno is nervous because ................ . (b) Foltrigg is angry because ................ . (c) Mark is excited because ................ . (c) Diane signed the papers because................ . (d) Reggie is sad because................ .(e) Mark cries because................ .

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