Chapter 1: Key reading skills
Worksheet
1.6a How does Dickens create
character?
Student’s Book Q4 Using the extract from Great Expectations, fill in the table below to explore how
Dickens establishes the two characters.
Pip: What is said/done /
How others react / Words
used to describe him
Effect: What it tells us
about him
Effect: What it suggests
about his relationships
Little devil
He is young
Childish
Pleaded
Submissive
Submissive
Trembling
Not confident
Not confident
Undersized
Weak Mentally and Physically
Not a leader
Keep myself from crying
Emotional
He is often the one who is
emotiona
I pointed to where our village lay
Obedient, he tells the man where
he iives
Obedient
Magwitch: What is said/done /
How others react / Words
used to describe him
Effect: What it tells us
about him
Effect: What it suggests
about his relationships
Hold your noise
Commander/powerful
Commander/powerful
A fearful man
He doesn’t look like a good
person
He is evil minded
Broken shoes
Suggests that he is poverty
stricken
Lives in poverty
Glared and growled
He has an aggressive
personality
Aggressive
Ate the bread ravenously
Might suggest that he has been
Hungry for a long time
Poverty stricken
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