The Room in the Tower - Follow Up Activity

After Reading, complete the following activities.

Choose the right words to finish these

sentences.

a The narrator had the same dream three / many times.

b The dream happens in front of / behind a big red house.

c Jack Stone was from the narrator’s old school / home town.

d The building in the corner of the garden was very tall / wide.

e The narrator wakes up from the dream after / before he enters the room.

f The people in the dream started to get younger / older.

g When the dream starts again after stopping for six months, Mrs Stone / Jack Stone is dead.

h The words on the stone were: ‘Remember the sad / bad and dangerous Julia Stone’.

i When the narrator woke up, he was hot / cold and scared.

 

Who is speaking? Who are they talking to?

a ‘We can drive down together on Sunday

afternoon.’ ………

b ‘Jack is going to show you to your room now.’ ………

c ‘I don’t like this picture.’ ………

d ‘Oh look, there’s blood on my hand.’ ………

e ‘So, you are here in the tower after so many years.’ ………

f ‘But people say she comes to visit young men in their dreams.’ ………

 

What happens first? Put the sentences into the

correct order.

a Mrs Stone put her hand on the narrator’s neck. c

b The narrator saw the picture of Mrs Stone. c

c John Clinton saw Mrs Stone. c

d The narrator left the house in Sussex. c

e The narrator and John Clinton drove to Sussex. c

f The narrator saw Mrs Stone. c

g The narrator and John Clinton went into the garden to talk. c

h The narrator hit Mrs Stone in the face. c