Christopher's quest continues – the train journey from Swindon to London

Worksheet : chapters 193 to 211

Christopher's quest continues – the train journey from Swindon to London

I/ The lexical field of the train & train travel : complete with words / expressions from the text.

1. The place where there are seats for passagers:

« The train carriage » «  two  long  seats  nearby  which  faced  each  other » chapter 197

1. A long strip of leather or plastic that you can hold when you are standing and the train is moving :

« he had to grab hold of one of the straps which were hanging from the ceiling » chapter 197

1. The place that these strips are attached :

« the ceiling » chapter 197

1. The place where you can store / stow / put your luggage :

- singular :shelf

- plural :shelves

1. Two verbs that describe the movement of the train when it sets off / starts moving or when it changes speed :

- jiggle / started going again

- started slow down / the train stoped

II/ List three challenges / obstacles Christopher has to face on his journey from Swindon to London from chapter 197 :

1.He is confronted with the policeman. he doesn't want to go back to see his father, he's hiding in a shelf

2.he thought there was no toilet on the train, he restrained himself for 17 minutes, he peed slightly on himself. When he went to the bathroom, it was very dirty, there was poop all over the toilet.

3.When he is in the train he looks out the window and it makes him think a lot which makes his head hurt, so he must calm down.

III/ Quote the text : pick out nine coping mechanisms he puts into practice in these chapters :

IV/ Navigating a foreign environment is a constant challenge for Christopher ; he has never travelled by train before neither has he ever been to a railway or an underground station.

A/ How does he describe the station when he gets off the train ? Quote the text.

He descried the stations very accurately.

‘’And I looked where she was pointing and there was a big staircase going down into the

ground and there was a big sign over the top of it like this: underground'' (chap 211)

‘’ I

just had to look in front of me all the time and make a red line along the floor in the picture of the

big room in my head and follow it.

And I walked across the big room to the escalators.’’

B/ What new word does he face when he is at the station ? Quote the text.

The knew word was ‘’keeping an eye on someone''

C/ Pick out five new experiences / things that he discovers on his journey :

1. On the train :

- he met a police man '’then I heard someone say

“Christopher.” And I thought it would be someone I knew, like a teacher from school or one of the

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