DANIEL DEFOE’S LIFE AND WORK
Provide the past
forms of the verbs in the box and the pronouns needed to complete
the sentences about Daniel Defoe.
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receive
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bury
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Be x 5
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have
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produce
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Be born
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Travelx2
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lead
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study
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establish
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marry
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Publish
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Write x 2
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die
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arrest
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continue
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1660. ……………………….. in London, son of a tallow-chandler and butcher.
1671. …………………….. at religious academies in preparation for a career in
the Presbyterian ministry.
1682…………………………..as a merchant in the hosiery trade.
1684……………………... Mary Tuffley and ………….a *dowry of £3,700. ……………………….. seven children.
1685. Merchant dealing in wine,
tobacco, and general goods. ……………………………………..
extensively in France, Holland, Italy, and Spain.
1688. …………………..a political tract: A Letter to a Dissenter from his
Friend at the Hague.
1692. ………………………. .bankrupt for £17,000. ………………………. to pay his creditors
in full.
1697……………………………….. Agent for
William III in England and Scotland.
1703. …………………………… and put in pillory for The Shortest Way. His
imprisonment ………………………… to the failure of his brick and tile factory.
1704. For ten years Defoe ………………… The Review, a thrice-weekly newspaper.
1705. ……………………… a Government agent under Harley, serving as pamphleteer,
reporter, and advisor. ……………………………… widely in England and Scotland, promoting
the cause of the Anglo-Scottish union.
1713. ……………………………………….. twice for
debt and publishing ironical political pamphlets.
1719. ……………………………. First successful novel, Robinson Crusoe.
1722. …………………………………………… Moll Flanders, A
Journal of the Plague Year, Colonel Jack.
1725.
……………….. producing pamphlets,
biographies, fiction, homilies, political tracts at a prodigious rate.
1731………………………….
at his lodgings in Ropemaker's Alley, Moorfields. ……………………………
in the
cemetery at Bunhill Fields, in the city of London.
*Dowry: Money or
property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage.
B. Now choose five
main events in Defoe´s life and write a
paragraph using sequence words. E.g. First – then – after – next –finally,
etc
ROBINSON CRUSOE
Eight things are
wrong in the following summary of the story. Make them right.
(a) Robinson Crusoe’s parents wanted him to stay in his
home town of London but he has other ideas. (b) He wants to become a
captain and see the world.(c) He leaves without saying ‘hello’ to his
parents (d) and finds a ship in York. (e) He goes to Yarmouth by
road and finds another ship. (f ) He goes to Guinea and comes back to
London with £500. (g) Then he goes to sea again and becomes a poor man
in Brazil. (h) But he is not happy with his life in Brazil and he goes
to sea again to get slaves from Europe. (i) His ship goes to the bottom
of the sea again and none of the other sailors die. (j) He swims to the
beach of a big island.
Put the following
sentences in the right order. Use the numbers 1–8.
a c The cannibals
pulled two prisoners from a boat.
b c Robinson
Crusoe saw five boats on the beach near his house.
c c One of the
prisoners ran across the beach as fast as possible.
d c The prisoner jumped
into the river.
e c The prisoner
put Robinson Crusoe’s foot on his head.
f c Robinson
Crusoe used his gun to kill a cannibal.
g c Robinson
Crusoe saw thirty men on the beach.
h c Robinson
Crusoe went home and cleaned his guns.
Based on the three last chapters of the story answer
the following questions.
1.
What did
Robinson do when he found the print of man’s naked foot? How did he feel?
2.
What did he
find that made him horrified?
3.
Who was
Friday? How did Robinson meet him? How did they get along?
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Do the following
things happen in the story? Justify your answers.
1. Robinson Crusoe finds the bones of a man on the beach.
2. Friday helps
Robinson Crusoe run away from a group of cannibals.
3. Crusoe and Friday help Crusoe’s father when he is a
prisoner of a group of cannibals.
4. Crusoe makes
an umbrella.
5. Friday goes
back to his country.
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