MoDULE 2 Great books Unit 2 It's still read and loved Reading and vocabulary 1 work in pairs Look at the words in the box and answer the questions. adventure behaviour cave freedom funeral hero nineteenth century outsider pretty social themetreasure I What did Betty suggest at the end of the conversation in Unit 1? 2 What book did mr jackson choose? 3 What do you think happens in the book? 4 what do you think are the main ideas of the book? 2 Read the passage and check your answers to Activity 1. a Great Books 5 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Here is our monthly article on a Tom is the hero of the story, but there favourite great book. This month, our are other important characters. Huck is guest writer is Mr Jackson an outsider and everyone is afraid of him. My favourite great book is The Adventures Becky is pretty with fair hair, Joe is Tom's of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Tom lives best friend, and Injun Joe is the bad man of with his aunt polly in the quiet streets of the story St Petersburg, Missouri. He's a lively and The themes of the story are to do with clever young boy, and he finds himself children growing up and becoming more in many exciting adventures. He runs serious. It describes how strangers are seen away with his two friends, Huck Finn in small towns of America. Finally, it talks and Joe, to an island in the middle of the about freedom, social rules and how people Mississippi River for several days. With are punished for bad behaviour Huck he goes looking for treasure, with Why do i think Tom Saw yer is a great Becky he gets lost in a cave, and finally, book? Mark Twain wrote the story in 1876. they find a box of gold but it's still read and loved by people all My favourite scene over the world today. in the book is when everyone thinks Tom And although it's only is dead. He decides in the everyday English to go to his own of the southern states funeral. He hides and of America in the 19th watches for a time century, so it sounds and then suddenl very real. Today it's he appears. Everyone thought to be one of is surprised to see the greatest books in him but they' re also American literature. Go pleased to see him read it! I know alive you'll enjoy it, too Module