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Before Reading chApter 7 while reading

Encourage students to speculate and to make
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Before reading activities (page 108)

guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will
find out as they read that the answers are 1a, 2c
Activity 1 before reading and 3a.
1 Malcolm Jaggard
chApters 8 to 10 while reading
2 Malcolm Jaggard
1 Malcolm to Gillian about himself and Penny.
3 George Ashton
2 Michaelis to Malcolm about the model railway.
4 George and Penny Ashton
3 Crammond to Malcolm about Mayberry.
5 Penny Ashtons sister / George Ashtons other
4 Mayberry to Malcolm about Penny.
daughter
5 Professor Lumsden to Malcolm about his
6 Politicians
experiments.
Activity 2 before reading 6 Ogilvie to Malcolm about Ashton.
Students will find out as they read that the yes 7 Ogilvie to Malcolm about the Russians who were
answers are 2, 3, 4 (soon after the end of the story), watching Ashton.
5 and 6. 8 Henty to Malcolm about Ashton walking towards
the guns.
Activity 3 before reading
9 Henty to Malcolm about Benson.
Open answers. The basic meaning of sentence
1 is that the speaker is confident of beating the chApters 11 to 13 while reading
enemy. Sentence 2 implies that the enemy is hidden 1 To continue to investigate the Ashton case.
amongst people who are apparently friends and 2 Advising on the building and safety of a new
allies. It could be interesting to ask students to laboratory.
answer this question again when they have read the 3 The model railway.
book and to ask them if they agree with sentence 2. 4 By talking to Penny and reading her books.
Original source of quotations: 5 In the timetables for his model railway, which was a
1 Oliver Hazard Perry, heroic American computer.
commodore 6 Because Cregars special interest was in biological
2 Walt Kelly, subversive sociological cartoonist and chemical weapons.
7 That Benson was Cregars man.
While Reading chApters 14 to 16 while reading
1 How . . .? In a fishermans boat.
chApters 1 to 3 while reading 2 Why . . .? Because Malcolm told him that Ogilvie
1 Penny Ashton + 11 had the letter that was found in Bensons pocket.
2 Malcolm Jaggard + 12 3 What . . .? There was an accident at the laboratory
3 Benson + 8 and she was made ill by bacteria.
4 Gillian Ashton + 7 4 What . . .? He would send Penny to hospital.
5 George Ashton + 9 5 Who . . .? The local fishermen.
6 Ogilvie + 10 6 How . . .? Malcolm hit Cregar and his gun went off.
chApters 4 to 6 while reading
7 What . . .? Dangerous bacteria.
1 Gillian was blind / was badly injured. 8 Why . . .? Because he was given orders not to let him
2 Penny didnt agree to marry Malcolm immediately / ever go back to the Russians.
agreed to marry Malcolm but couldnt say when. 9 Why . . .? Because he wanted to do something that
people would remember.
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the government. 10 Who . . .? Peter Michaelis.
4 Ashton disappeared because he wanted to protect 11 What . . .? He showed the mathematical basis of
Penny. genetics.
5 Malcolm told Penny the truth about his job, but he 12 Why . . .? To keep them from politicians like Cregar
didnt tell her father. and the Minister.
6 The three surprising things that they found in 13 Why . . .? Because he thought it would destroy the
Ashtons house were a laboratory, a secret strong- honest part of him.
room, and a model railway.

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before reADing chApter 17
Encourage students to speculate and to make
guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will
find out as they read that the only yes answer is
number 3 (soon after the end of the story).
After Reading
Activity 1 after reading
Possible answers:
malColm: Hello, sir. I was trying to get hold of you.
ogilvie: Why? Whats happened?
malColm: Well, Im afraid the department owes me
31,000.
ogilvie: What? 31,000! Have you gone completely
mad?
malColm: Not at all. Ive bought Ashtons model
railway.
ogilvie: Bought his railway? And you want me to pay
for it? Youre an idiot! If you want a boys toy . . .
malColm: Just a minute, sir. Its not a toy. I believe
its actually a very clever computer.
ogilvie: A computer? You must be out of your mind.
malColm: No, let me explain. I realized what it was
because of the timetable.
ogilvie: What timetable?
malColm: The one Ashton tried to give me when he
was dying. I didnt understand at the time, but I
do now.
ogilvie: You may understand, but Im afraid I dont!
malColm: It was Michaelis who made me think of
it. He told me that Ashtons timetables didnt fit
the books that he had. In fact, they didnt fit any
normal pattern.
ogilvie: So youre telling me that the railway . . .?
malColm: Yes, I believe the railway is a sort of
mechanical computer, and the timetables are
programs.
ogilvie: Thats all very well, but why did you have to
buy the model? Couldnt you just stop the auction?
malColm: The auctioneer refused to stop without a
letter from Penny herself, and I couldnt get hold
of her.
ogilvie: But why did it have to cost so much money?
malColm: A rich American who collects model
railways was also trying to buy it. He was ready
to pay a lot of money for it.
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Activity 2 after reading
Other answers may be possible, but the best words
to complete the paragraph are as follows:
Penny Ashton was a biologist who had made a special
study of genetics. Her father became interested in
her research and because he had originally studied
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mathematics, he was able to work with computer
programs without doing experiments in a laboratory.
Penny was doing important work to help people
suffering from cancer. Her boss, Professor Lumsden,
was also working on isolating the genes of plants and
animals, to try and produce more and better food.
But Mayberry believed that their work was against his
religious beliefs, because they were creating new forms
of life he said that Penny was making monsters, and
that was why he wanted to throw acid into her face.
However, it was Pennys sister who was injured in
Mayberrys attack. Then Penny became ill in Scotland
after an accident in Cregars secret laboratory; some
dangerous bacteria escaped and made her very ill.
Activity 3 after reading
Many different sentences are possible, depending
on the students view of the characters. Possible
answers would be:
s Benson was dangerous (stupid) because he was
completely loyal to Cregar.
s Ashton was clever (right) to hide his ideas in the model
railway. / wrong to run away.
s Cregar was evil (dangerous) because he wanted power.
s Malcolm was brave when he went to the island to find
Penny. / clever to guess the secret of the railway.
s Penny was wrong to work with dangerous bacteria. /
right to want to help people with cancer.
s Mayberry was stupid to leave his fingerprints in the
car. / dangerous because he was mad.
s Ogilvie was wrong to make Malcolm spy on his future
father-in law. / stupid when he refused to let Malcolm
talk to Ashton in Sweden.
Activity 4 after reading
The correct order is:
3, 1, 4, 2
1 Cregar to Benson when he first gave him the job of
spying on Ashton.
2 Benson to Ashton after the acid attack.
3 Cregar to Ashton when he got him out of Russia.
4 Benson to Cregar about five years before the story
begins.
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Possible answer:
This is the amazing story of how a Russian scientist
lived and died as an ordinary British businessman.
Aleksandr Chelyuskin was a brilliant student of
mathematics in Russia. During the war he worked
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in weapons research, but after the war he started to

dislike Russian society and arranged to disappear. He
came to live secretly in England, where he took the
name George Ashton. He married an Englishwoman
and had two daughters. At the time of his death, he
was a successful businessman who owned two factories
making plastic materials. One of his daughters,
Penelope, was also a clever scientist who studied
genetics. Ashton studied with her, and used his
knowledge to show the mathematical basis of genetics.
However, because he did not trust politicians to use
his discoveries safely, he hid his ideas in computer
programs. After he was killed in Sweden last year, his
discoveries were found hidden in the timetables for his
model railway.
Activity 6 after reading
Open answers. Here are some possible completions:
1 If Mayberry had thrown the acid at Penny, she
wouldnt have gone to Scotland, and so she and
Malcolm wouldnt have been made ill by the
bacteria.
2 If Mayberry had not thrown the acid, George
Ashton wouldnt have been so frightened for his
family that he disappeared.
3 If George Ashton had known that Penny had agreed
to marry Malcolm, perhaps he wouldnt have
disappeared.
4 If George Ashton hadnt disappeared, perhaps he
wouldnt have been killed.
5 If Hartman had bought the model railway,
Malcolms department wouldnt have found out
what was in Ashtons computer programs.
6 If Benson had not been loyal to Cregar, he probably
wouldnt have shot Ashton.
7 If Ogilvie had let Malcolm talk to Ashton in
Sweden, Ashton would not have been killed.
Activity 7 after reading
Open answers.
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