Fifth Year – CLE
Activities for the oral exam.
The Murderer.
- Describe the protagonist and the antagonist of the story. List adjectives that describe them
in detail. How are these characters alike and how are thy different?
- Describe the setting in place and time.
- Describe the main problem in the story.
- Describe the solution to the problem. What other ways could the problem have been
solved? How would you have solved it?
- Express your opinion on the author’s purpose for writing this story; the reason(s) why the
author wrote this story; what was he trying to tell us, readers?
- What lesson/moral have you learnt from the story?
- If you could continue the story, what events would you include? Why?
- Would you change the end of the story? How?
- What do you think is the most interesting part of the story or what is your favourite part of
the story? Why?
- Discuss some themes of the story. How does the author, back in the 1950’s, reflect current
social issues?
- Could this story happen in real life? Why / Why not?
- Why do you think the author gave the book this title? Is it suitable for the story? Why / Why
not?
- If you wrote a letter to the author telling him what you liked and didn’t like about the story,
what would you say? How would you persuade people to read this story?
- Create a new character and describe how he/she would fit into the story. Describe that
person fully. How will he/she contribute to the development of the story?