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Question
The description of the character is given below. Identify the character from the play. Find some sentences which support your choice.
He is smart as well as brave.
Solution
The character is the ballad- singer/prisoner/man.
He is smart
- And maybe the man you are watching for to-night used to be sitting on the wall when he was young and singing those same songs... It's a queer world…
It‘s a pity! It‘s a pity. You deceived me. You deceived me well.
He is brave
- There isn‘t another man in Ireland who would have broken gaol the way he did.
- I am. There are a hundred pounds on my head.
- Will you let me pass, or must I make you let me?
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- Pick one word from the passage which is the opposite of ‘modern’.
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Form groups of four to six.
Discuss whether and how you can improve English spelling.
