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.
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