Little Women

A.- Checking your understandings.

Chapters 1-3. Write answers to these questions.

1.- Why wasn´t the girls´ father ta home that Chistmas? Because he was in the war.

2.- Why did Mrs Hummel almost cry with hapiness? Because the girls were helping to her poor family.

3.-What happened to Meg´s hair before the New Year´s Eve party?  Jo was making curls to Meg and leaving the hair to the hot utensil for so long her hair burned and it fell off.

4.-How did Meg get home with her bad ankle? She came home in Laurie's carriage so she would not hurt her ankle anymore.

Chapters 4-6. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

1.- Aunt March was a nice old lady who never complained. F

2.- Jo went to visit Laurie to cheer him up.T

3.- Ben forgot her shyness when old Mr Laurence gave her a piano. T

4.- Amy hid Jo´s story notebook to make her sorry. F

Chapters 7-9. Who in these chapters...

1.-...did not like Meg when she was dressed up in fine clothes? Jo

2.-...put salt on the strawberries instead of sugar? Amy

3.-...was going to become a soldier next year? Mr Brooke

4.-...knew a secret about Meg´s lost glove? Jo

Chapters 10-12. Who said these words, and when?

1.- ´I shall go at once, but it may be too late´ Mrs March when received the telegram saying that Beth is very sick and serious.

2.-'I´d do it again, if I could' Jo when cuts her lovely hair to help her mother.

3.-'Oh, Jo! Mrs Hummel´s baby is dead' Beth when take the baby to the doctor.

4.-'People wouldn´t feel half so bad about me if I was sick' Amy when she sayd to her mother that if she died nobody remembered her.

5.-'I don´t know anything about love!' Jo when her sister meet to Brook and Jo doesn´t understand anything about love between Brooke and her sister.

Chapters 13-14. Find answered to these questions.

1.-Why did Jo get so angry with Laurie? Because Laurie sent to Meg false letters of Brooke.

2.- Why wouldn´t Laurie tell his grandfather what he had done? Because his grandfather is very strict and severe.

3.-What was the surprise at Christmas for the March family? The return of Mr March to the house.

4.-Why didn´t Jo want Meg to marry Jonh Brooke? Because she thinks that if she marries, Meg forget her family.

B Working with the language.

1.- Put these into the right order and join them together to make four sentences. Check your order in Chapter 10.

When the telegram brought the news about Mr March´s ilness, everbody hurried to help get ready.

Mrs March said she would leave for Washintong at once.

She was gone a long time, because she wanted to do something to help her father and Jo went out to fetch some thingsfrom the shops.

She had cut off and sold her lovely long hair but when she come back, she had twenty-five dollars to give her mother.

2.- Choose the best word to join the sentences together.

1.-We invited the Laurance boy to our party but she didn´t come.

2.- Beth was very shy so didn´t go to school.

3.-Jo was very angry indeed when Amy burned her notebook.

4.- They enjoyed being lazy although the days seemed very long.

5.- We would all be very sorry if anything happened to you.

C Actitvities

1.- When Mr March comes home, he thinks that his daughters have changed. In what ways do you think are different? Write a few sentences about each of the four, describing the changes.

Beth is less shy for play the piano on Laurie´s grandfather house.

Meg is more responsible and mature.

Jo is more brave because persue her dreams.

Amy is more gentily and truthful.