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Dolphin Music Antoinette Moses
Before reading d Saul called Caroline.
e Caroline practised some music for her concert.
1. Look at the cover and read the back cover blurb.
Why do you think it is too hot to go out? What
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has changed between now and the year 2051?
Make a list. 1. Match the beginnings and endings.
2. Look at pages 10 and 19. Find PACE and 1 Saul and Caroline’s a watched Captain
BEATCON. What do the letters stand for? conversation Marrs on his screen.
3. Do you know other books or films set in the 2 Dick Lane b joined the army
future? when he was
4. If you have the recording, listen to Chapter 1. eighteen.
3 The Controller c was recorded by
BEATCON.
Check your reading 4 Captain Marrs d was a BEATCON
special.
Chapter 1
2. Why does the Controller say about Saul: ‘I don’t
1. True or false? think he’ll be alive for very much longer’? What
a Saul’s computer could understand what he is going to happen?
said to it.
b There weren’t enough jobs for everyone to Chapter 5
work all the time.
1. Complete the sentences with the right person’s
c Most people had to do community work for
name.
six months.
a ............... wants ............... to save the dolphins.
d Saul thought that life was better in the past.
b ............... thinks that ............... is crazy.
e Saul and Caroline had never been in the same
c ............... thinks that ............... is very rude.
place together.
d ............... made a scan of ............... ’s eyes.
Chapter 2 e ............... blew up ............... ’s car.
Captain Marrs Saul Sue Ruth
1. Look at the words in italics. Who is I, you, he etc.? 2. What do you think Saul is going to do?
a I’m old enough to say what I like.
b We know how to avoid the police. Chapter 6
c They’ve shot many of my friends already.
1. Who said what?
d He wanted to be back in his room listening to
a ‘He’s going to be useless on the journey.’
music.
b ‘Where are we going?’
e When they are in terrible pain and dying, they
c ‘I think I was right to choose him.’
sing.
d ‘Marrs won’t bother me.’
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Chapter 7
1. Put the events in the right order.
1. Correct the summary.
a Saul and Caroline spoke to each other on
The Controller arrived at Saul’s house in a
their computers.
blue and silver jetcar. Marrs was pleased that
b Caroline got dressed for her concert.
the Controller had arrived. Marrs asked the
c Caroline made a message for Saul.
Controller what had happened and he explained
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that he had killed a terrorist. The Controller was b Dick thought that Marrs would send him to
pleased with Marrs and thought he should have the tunnels.
more power. Then Captain Marrs found out that c Marrs thought that Saul had killed the two
there had been two people in the car he blew up. soldiers.
d Marrs thought that Sue Hunter was a terrorist.
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Chapter 12
1. True or false?
a The roof of the tunnel was very low. 1. Put the events in the right order.
b Saul didn’t like Ruth at all. a Sue and Saul travelled to France by train.
c Saul didn’t know how to use a gun. b Sue and Saul arrived in Lyon.
d Ruth and Sue started PACE together. c Sue put a computer chip with a number into
e The Controller’s brother was a member of Saul’s hand.
PACE. d Saul and Sue got under the train and escaped.
e Ruth said goodbye to Sue and Saul.
Chapter 9 f Sue and Saul went into one of the work
1. Put the events in the right order. tunnels.
a Saul, Ruth and Sue found the bodies of the
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soldiers.
b A soldier tried to shoot a wolf, fell off his 1. Which facts about Sue are right?
bike and was killed. a She used to be married to a man called Robert.
c Marrs checked on his computer to try and b She has got an uncle called Marc.
find Saul. c She lives in Neumatt in Switzerland.
d A soldier hit a tree on his jetbike and was killed. d She’s very good with computers.
e Dick left the forest as quickly as he could. e She’s been working for PACE since she left
f Dick and two BEATCON soldiers went into university.
the forest.
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10
1. Who said what?
1. Who ... a ‘Grant killed two of my men. This is personal.’
a wanted to watch everything that happened on b ‘What on earth are you doing here?’
the Web? c ‘It’s all a lie. Control lie all the time.’
b did all the real work? d ‘I’m going to call the police.’
c started a fire to burn the forests down? e ‘We’re going to the one place Captain Marrs
d made the fire even bigger to get Marrs into can’t find us.’
trouble? Caroline Saul Sue Captain Marrs
e was going to stay behind in the caves?
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Chapter 11
1. Complete this paragraph about the hotel.
1. True or false? The Neumatt European Hotel was only open
a Marrs thought Dick’s idea to go into the to senior ............... of Control. It was one of
forest was stupid. the most ............... hotels in the ............... . It
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had walls made of ............... which turned a f Saul stopped the train suddenly.
different ............... when you walked past. In the g Saul got into the front of the train to drive it.
rooms was a satellite ............... , a huge bed, a h Captain Marrs started shooting at the train.
............... and an enormous ............... .
2. Would you like to stay in this hotel? Why or why Chapter 19
not?
1. Who said what?
Chapter 16 a ‘Stop the train! They’re bombing the line!’
b ‘Another minute and we would all have been
1. Match the beginnings and endings. dead.’
1 A man in a black a the BEATCON c ‘I thought we were safe now.’
uniform soldier waited d ‘When Captain Marrs arrives, we’ll be
outside. waiting for him.’
2 Caroline got b he had killed Saul Sue Captain Marrs a BEATCON special
dressed while and Sue. Saul
3 Caroline decided to c she was stupid.
make Chapter 20
Captain Marrs 1. Complete the gaps in this summary.
think that The next day, during a ............... concert
4 Captain Marrs told d banged on on the Web, ............... started talking about
Caroline that Caroline’s door in Saul. She repeated everything he had told her
the middle of the about the ............... and the Music Rooms,
night. and how they were ............... in order to
make ............... . As she was speaking Dick
Chapter 17 Lane came into the recording ............... and
1. Look at the words in italics. Who is I, you, he, we, ............... her dead.
they?
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a I want him found.
b They hated screen watching. 1. True or false?
c I ’ll check on the laptop. a Saul was injured in the explosion.
d They lay without moving. b None of the dolphins was hurt.
e We’re too late. c People did not usually drive lorries.
f Good morning. What can I do for you? d They learnt that the Controller had been killed.
e Peter had become the new Controller.
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1. Put the events in the right order. After reading
a Saul and Sue put the dolphins onto the train. Choose some of these activities.
b Sue got out and put a bomb on the line.
c Captain Marrs followed Saul and Sue on 1. Make a list of ways in which the world in the
another train. story is different from the world today. Compare
d One of the specials saw Saul and Sue on his it with the list you made before reading.
screen. 2. Which character do you like most? Why?
e Captain Marrs and his men arrived in the 3. Look at Chapter 15. What would your ideal
tunnel. hotel be like?
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4. Write Saul’s diary after his first day away from 7. What do you think happens after the end of
home. the story? Write an extra chapter about what
5. Do you think Dolphin Music is a good title? Make happens to the main characters.
up some alternatives. 8. Make your own activities for other students to
6. Look at page 77. Imagine Saul had called do, e.g. make a word puzzle.
Caroline. How would the story be different?
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