Chapter 2: Table of contents

1) The changes in the Close: Description of the houses and the neighbours in the past

2) Description of Stephen's house

3) Description of young Stephen

4) Chollerton

5) Description of Keith 

6) Stephen and Keith's relationship

7) Chores, activities and games: What Keith and Stephen used to do when they were together.

8) Description of Mrs. Hayward

9) Description of Mr. Hayward

10) Description of Auntie Dee, little Millie and Uncle Peter

11) Stephen's family

12) The Teas at the Haywards´

13) The source of the perfume: the privets- Braemar

14) The beginning of the story- Problems with memory

15) The six words.

Keih and Stephen´s Tin Trunk

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Chapter 5- The World Beyond the Tunnel

A) Read from “ I walk back along the clean grey pavement under the clean steel bridge…” to “ Once again I try to wipe the dark-green slime off my hands.”

Here is a glossary that may help you:

Ordeal: A very unpleasant and prolonged experience. `‘the ordeal of having to give evidence’

The old world: the rural world before the village was built.

Hedgerow: A rough or mixed hedge of wild shrubs and occasional trees, typically bordering a road or field.

Hovel: A small squalid or simply constructed house.

Tumbledown: (of a building or other structure) falling or fallen into ruin; dilapidated

Lurk: Be or remain hidden so as to wait in ambush for someone or something.

Debris: Scattered pieces of rubbish or remains.

Pram: A four-wheeled carriage for a baby, pushed by a person on foot.

Misshapen: Not having the normal or natural shape or form.

Raggedy:  untidy, shabby.

Billy: pot

Causeway:A raised road or track across low or wet ground.

(Source: Oxford Dictionary)

B) Do the following activities:

1) Describe these places: “the Lanes”, “the Cottages”, the “desolate no-man´s land” ,the tunnel.

2) Underline all the words that suggest that the world beyond the tunnel looked neglected.

3) Explain the children´s feelings when they went across the tunnel.

4) Connect  the last sentence of this extract to the end of the previous chapter.

Chapter 3 Tic Tac Toe