Revision for “GREAT EXPECTATIONS”

Part 1: READ THIS PASSAGE AND FILL IN THE GAPS – ONE WORD FOR EACH GAP.

Great Expectations is one of ………………. ………………. most famous novels. It's set in early
………………. ………………. (c. 1840-50) and tells the story of a young man named ………………..
Pip is an orphan, and his older sister takes care of him. She is very mean to both him and her husband,
……………….. One day, Pip meets a convict called ………………., who has escaped from prison. Pip
helps the man and gives him some food and a file to remove the chains. Some time later, Pip goes to play
at ………………. ………………., where the strange Miss Havisham lives. ……………….
………………. is a old woman who always wears a wedding dress. She takes care of a beautiful little
girl, ……………….. Pip is soon in love with Estella, but he knows that he is not a gentleman, and
therefore never be with her. Furthermore, Estella is often mean to Pip. Pip starts working as a
………………. with Joe, but he dreams of being a rich ……………….. One day, his dreams come true.
A lawyer tells him that some mysterious ………………. has given him a sum of money. Pip thinks that it
must be Miss Havisham and is excited to become a gentleman for Estella.

Part 2: ANWERS THE QUESTIONS WITH ONE OR TWO SENTENCES FOR EACH.

 What are the two physical settings contributing to the main idea of the novel?

 What represents a life of leisure and inherited money that Pip dreams of?

 What does Joe's house represent?

 What does Satis House look like?

 Why has Miss Havisham kept everything in Satis house the same as the day when her fiancé
abandoned her?
 At what time are the clocks in Satis house stopped?

 Why does Miss Havisham always wear her wedding dress?

 Why is Pip's dream to become a gentleman not a very noble goal?

 When does Pip's dream to become a gentleman eventually collapse in on itself?

 In what way the two settings both contribute to the main idea of the novel?

 
PART 3: MARK THE SENTENCES TRUE OR FALSE, BASED ON THE UNDERLINED
TERM, WRITE THE CORRECT TERM IF IT WERE FALSE.

 The title "Great expectations" clearly refers to Pip. …………………………….

 In the extract, Pip's "great expectations" are a large sum of money and becoming a gentleman.
…………………………….

 Upon getting money, Pip becomes snobbish and looking down on people like Joe.
…………………………….

 Both Magwitch and Compeyson end up much better people, who have learned from their mistakes and
are actually happier. …………………………….
 Magwitch just continues with his life of crime for the rest of his life. …………………………….

 As the novel progresses, Pip begins to value hard work. …………………………….

 Satis house represents the values of hard work and family life. …………………………….

 Without Miss Havisham and Estella, Pip'd have never known anything other than the life that he had.
…………………………….

 Money has made Pip a more well-rounded and well-developed person. …………………………….

 Great Expectations is a very good example of a Victorian novel. …………………………….

 The stopped clocks are the most important symbols in the novel. …………………………….

 Satis house is inhabited by Estella who refuses to let time move forward. …………………………….

 Joe’s house shows the value of hard work. …………………………….

 The settings are simply backdrops for the action in Great Expectations. …………………………….

 Pip gives up after he has lost his fortune. …………………………….

 The wedding cake implies that Miss Havisham can't stop thinking about her loss in the past.
…………………………….
PART 4: FILL THE MISSING WORDS IN THE BLANK

 The ……………………… of “Great Expectations” is in London in the middle of the 19th century.

 The two physical settings parallel to each other and help to communicate the main ideas of the novel
are ……………………… house and Joe’s house.

 Victorian novels include ……………………… such as complex plots, various characters, detailed
descriptions of London and other places, issues of social mobility.

 The stopped clocks are a physical representation of Miss Havisham’s ……………………….

 Miss Havisham wants to use Estella to revenge herself on ……………………….

 Joe understands that he's not part of Pip's ……………… …………… anymore.

 The author communicated the main ideas in the passage mainly through ……………………….

 The story is told by a ……………………… narrator, Pip, who is telling his own story.

 Pip loves Joe, but Joe is from a ……………… class and embarrasses Pip in his new, gentlemanly life.

 Joe also tells Pip that if Pip ever wants to see him, Pip should come to his ……………………… and
see him in his work clothes, because that is where Joe feels he belongs.

 Both Pip and Estella ……………… …………… and are forced to come to terms with a life without
money.

 As the novel progresses, Pip ……………………… to his family and the people that he loves.

 Only when Pip takes responsibility for his own life and …………… …………… does he become a
well-rounded and well-adjusted person.

 The main idea of the novel is that ……………………… you work for is of more value than
……………………… you are given.
 ………… …..………… is stuck in the past. She can't stop thinking about her loss and suffers for it.

 Unlike Pip, ……………………… doesn't try to overreach his boundaries. Instead, he accepts his
place.

 The rise of the middle class is also a common ……………………… in Victorian novels.

 Miss Havisham’s …………… …..………… symbolizes death.

PART 5: MULTIPLE CHOICE. CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWERS.

 Pip's greatest dream is that of becoming a ______________.

A. blacksmith
B. merchant
C. gentleman

 In this extract, Joe has come to visit Pip in __________________.

A. Satis house
B. London
C. the village

 Pip is embarrassed by Joe and his awkward appearance and ______________.

A. speech
B. money
C. anvil

 _________ won't come back to London because he knows that he doesn't belong there.
A. Joe
B. Pip
C. Estella

 In terms of the story __________________ have the most in common.

A. Miss Havisham and Estella
B. Pip and Estella
C. Magwitch and Compeyson

 ______________ spends the rest of his life doing good and working hard.
A. Miss Havisham
B. Compeyson
C. Magwitch
 ____________ just continues with his life of crime.
A. Joe
B. Magwitch
C. Compeyson

 Joe is important in the story because of how his character ____________ things about Pip.
A. deals with
B. reveals
C. examines

 In many ways, Joe ________________ what Pip might have been like had he never met Miss
Havisham and Estella.
A. represents
B. belongs to
C. emphasizes

 Satis House is where ____________ lives.

A. Miss Havisham
B. Estella
C. A & B are correct

 The Victorian era was a time where it was possible to _______________, perhaps for the first time in
history.
A. move between classes
B. trigger dreams of becoming gentlemen
C. be full of dust

 ___________ ends up being the most comfortable setting in the novel, showing that Pip will only be
happy when he returns to these values.
A. Satis house
B. Joe’s house
C. London

 _________________ have made Pip a more well-rounded and well-developed person.

A. Hardships
B. Heartaches
C. A & B are correct
 Compeyson is __________________.
A. Miss Havisham’s former fiancé
B. Estella’s real father
C. Pip’s benefactor

 ______________ are a physical representation of Miss Havisham’s obsession with the past.
A. The wedding cake
B. The wedding dress
C. The stopped clocks

 The idea of ____________ is most important to the extract.

A. success
B. social class
C. appearance

 Joe recognizes his rightful place, which is in the _______________.

A. forge
B. Satis house
C. London

 After losing his fortune, Pip becomes a merchant and eventually ends up in the ____________.
A. upper class
B. middle class
C. aristocracy

 The ___________ of Great Expectations is very complex, with lots of twists, turns, and surprises.
A. protagonist
B. setting
C. plot

 One of the most specific characteristics of Victorian novels is that of _____________.

A. past obsession
B. revenge
C. social mobility

 The two physical settings represent __________________.

A. abstract ideas
B. inherited money
C. hard work
 ____________ create parallels with aspects of the story and help communicate the main ideas of the
novel.
A. The plot
B. The settings
C. The characters

 The white wedding dress Miss Havisham still wears is very much a symbol of ____________.
A. wealth
B. death
C. decay

 It is ______________ that the money gives Pip nothing but disappointment.

A. symbolized
B. ironic
C. impressive

PART 6: WRITING
Joe’s house and Miss Havisham’s Satis house are very important settings in “Great Expectations”. Write 150 -250
word essay about their significance to the novel, and the role each plays in the moral lesson Pip has to learn.
THE KEY

Part 1: Read this short passage and fill in the gaps – one word for each gap.

Great Expectations is one of Charles Dickens' most famous novels. It's set in early Victorian England (c.
1840-50) and tells the story of a young man named Pip. Pip is an orphan, and his older sister takes care of
him. She is very mean to both him and her husband, Joe. One day, Pip meets a convict called Magwitch,
who has escaped from prison. Pip helps the man and gives him some food and a file to remove the
chains. Some time later, Pip goes to play at Satis House, where the strange Miss Havisham lives. Miss
Havisham is a old woman who always wears a wedding dress. She takes care of a beautiful little girl,
Estella. Pip is soon in love with Estella, but he knows that he is not a gentleman, and therefore never be
with her. Furthermore, Estella is often mean to Pip. Pip starts working as a blacksmith with Joe, but he
dreams of being a rich gentleman. One day, his dreams come true. A lawyer tells him that some
mysterious benefactor has given him a sum of money. Pip thinks that it must be Miss Havisham and is
excited to become a gentleman for Estella.

Part 2: Anwers the following questions with one or two sentences for each.

 What are the two physical settings contributing to the main idea of the novel?
They are Satis house and Joe’s home.

Or: They're physical manifestations of what is going on inside of Pip's mind, which show his
feelings and conflicts, and represent the main idea of the novel - that money you work for is of
more value than money you are given.

 What represents a life of leisure and inherited money that Pip dreams of? Satis House.

 What does Joe's house represent? It represents home, love, and family.

 What does Satis House look like?

Satis House is an old, run-down mansion in an overgrown garden.

 Why has Miss Havisham kept everything in Satis house the same as the day when her fiancé
abandoned her?
Because Miss Havisham is stuck in the past. She can't stop thinking about her loss.

 At what time are the clocks in Satis house stopped?

At 8:40, the exact time she found out her abandoned incident.

 Why does Miss Havisham always wear her wedding dress?

Because she is obsessed with her painful past.

 Why is Pip's dream to become a gentleman not a very noble goal?

  The life of leisure and with inherited or given money - like Miss Havisham’s – is miserable
and of less value than the hardworking life.
 Pip ends up to learn to see Satis House as it really is - stuck in the past and falling down-
before he can understand the true value of hard work and home that Joe's house represents.
 When does Pip's dream to become a gentleman eventually collapse in on itself?
- When Pip loses his fortune.

 In what way the two settings both contribute to the main idea of the novel?
They're physical manifestations of what is going on inside of Pip's mind which show his feelings
and conflicts.

 
PART 3: mark the sentences true or false, based on the underlined term, write the correct term if it
were false.

 The title "Great expectations" clearly refers to Pip. TRUE

 In the extract, Pip's "great expectations" are a large sum of money and becoming a gentleman.
TRUE

 Upon getting money, Pip becomes snobbish and looking down on people like Joe. TRUE

 Both Magwitch and Compeyson end up much better people, who have learned from their
mistakes and are actually happier. FALSE (Pip and Estella)

 Magwitch just continues with his life of crime for the rest of his life. FALSE (Compeyson)

 As the novel progresses, Pip begins to value hard work. TRUE

 Satis house represents the values of hard work and family life. FALSE (Joe’s house)

 Without Miss Havisham and Estella, Pip'd have never known anything other than the life that
he had. TRUE

 Money has made Pip a more well-rounded and well-developed person. FALSE (hardships and
heartaches)

 Great Expectations is a very good example of a Victorian novel. TRUE

 The stopped clocks are the most important symbols in the novel. TRUE
 Satis house is inhabited by Estella who refuses to let time move forward. False. Miss Havisham.
  Joe’s house shows the value of hard work. TRUE

 The settings are simply backdrops for the action in Great Expectations. False (help
communicate the main ideas of the novel).

 Pip gives up after he has lost his fortune. False (he becomes a merchant, and a member of the
middle class).

 The wedding cake implies that Miss Havisham can't stop thinking about her loss in the past. FALSE
(the stopped clocks)

PART 4: FILL THE MISSING WORDS IN THE BLANK

 The setting of “Great Expectations” is in London in the middle of the 19th century.

 The two physical settings parallel to each other and help to communicate the main ideas of the
novel are Satis house and Joe’s house.

 Victorian novels include characteristics such as complex plots, various characters, detailed
descriptions of London and other places, issues of social mobility.

 The stopped clocks are a physical representation of Miss Havisham’s obsession.

 Miss Havisham wants to use Estella to revenge herself on men.

 Joe understands that he's not part of Pip's social class anymore.

 The author communicated the main ideas in the passage mainly through dialogues.

 The story is told by a first-person narrator, Pip, who is telling his own story.

 Pip loves Joe, but Joe is from a lower class and embarrasses Pip in his new, gentlemanly life.

 Joe also tells Pip that if Pip ever wants to see him, Pip should come to his forge and see him in his
work clothes, because that is where Joe feels he belongs.

 Both Pip and Estella lose everything and are forced to come to terms with a life without money.

 As the novel progresses, Pip returns to his family and the people that he loves.
 Only when Pip takes responsibility for his own life and works hard does he become a well-
rounded and well-adjusted person.
 The main idea of the novel is that money you work for is of more value than money you are
given.

 Miss Havisham is stuck in the past. She can't stop thinking about her loss and suffers for it.

 Unlike Pip, Joe doesn't try to overreach his boundaries. Instead, he accepts his place.

 The rise of the middle class is also a common theme in Victorian novels.

 Miss Havisham’s wedding dress symbolizes death.

PART 5: MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the best answers.

 Pip's greatest dream is that of becoming a ______________.

A. blacksmith
B. merchant
C. gentleman

 In this extract, Joe has come to visit Pip in __________________.

A. Satis house
B. London
C. the village

 Pip is embarrassed by Joe and his awkward appearance and ______________.

A. speech
B. money
C. anvil

 _________ won't come back to London because he knows that he doesn't belong there.
A. Joe
B. Pip
C. Estella

 In terms of the story __________________ have the most in common.

A. Miss Havisham and Estella
B. Pip and Estella
C. Magwitch and Compeyson

 ______________ spends the rest of his life doing good and working hard.
A. Miss Havisham
 B. Compeyson
C. Magwitch

 ____________ just continues with his life of crime.

A. Joe
B. Magwitch
C. Compeyson

 Joe is important in the story because of how his character ____________ things about Pip.
A. deals with
B. reveals
C. examines

 In many ways, Joe ________________ what Pip might have been like had he never met Miss
Havisham and Estella.
A. represents
B. belongs to
C. emphasizes

 Satis House is where ____________ lives.

A. Miss Havisham
B. Estella
C. A & B are correct

 The Victorian era was a time where it was possible to _______________, perhaps for the first time in
history.
A. move between classes
B. trigger dreams of becoming gentlemen
C. be full of dust

 ___________ ends up being the most comfortable setting in the novel, showing that Pip will only be
happy when he returns to these values.
A. Satis house
B. Joe’s house
C. London

 _________________ have made Pip a more well-rounded and well-developed person.

A. Hardships
B. Heartaches
C. A & B are correct

 Compeyson is __________________.
 A. Miss Havisham’s former fiancé
B. Estella’s real father
C. Pip’s benefactor

 ______________ are a physical representation of Miss Havisham’s obsession with the past.
A. The wedding cake
B. The wedding dress
C. The stopped clocks

 The idea of ____________ is most important to the extract.

A. success
B. social class
C. appearance

 Joe recognizes his rightful place, which is in the _______________.

A. forge
B. Satis house
C. London

 After losing his fortune, Pip becomes a merchant and eventually ends up in the ____________.
A. upper class
B. middle class
C. aristocracy

 The ___________ of Great Expectations is very complex, with lots of twists, turns, and surprises.
A. protagonist
B. setting
C. plot

 One of the most specific characteristics of Victorian novels is that of _____________.

A. past obsession
B. revenge
C. social mobility

 The two physical settings represent __________________.

A. abstract ideas
B. inherited money
C. hard work
 ____________ create parallels with aspects of the story and help communicate the main ideas of the
novel.
A. The plot
B. The settings
C. The characters

 The white wedding dress Miss Havisham still wears is very much a symbol of ____________.
A. wealth
B. death
C. decay

 It is ______________ that the money gives Pip nothing but disappointment.

A. symbolized
B. ironic
C. impressive

17) What is the relationship between Pip and Estella?

 Pip falls hopelessly in love with Estella and wants to marry her, but Estella often means to him.
He perpetuates his delusions by hoping that if he becomes a gentleman, Estella will accept him
as an equal and requite his love. However, Miss Havisham wants to use Estella to revenge
herself on men, and she teaches Estella the way to make Pip’s life misserable.
 Pip and Estella have the most in common. Once Pip gets money, he becomes very like her
snobbish and looking down on people like Joe. Both of them lose everything and are forced to
come to terms with a life without money. Both of them end up much better people, who have
learned from their mistakes and are actually happier.
 28) What are the characteristics of Victorian novels? (see question 23 in the textbook)
 Victorian novels are usually quite dense, with complicated plots, lots of characters, and
realistic (and sometimes tediously detailed) physical descriptions.
 Further answer:
 Great Expectations does have these characteristics.
 - detailed plots – its plot is very complex, with lots of twists, turns, and surprises
 - lots of characters - there are many different characters in Great Expectations
 - detailed descriptions - Dickens describes London in great detail
 - theme of social mobility - Pip is very preoccupied with moving up socially and becoming a
gentleman
 - theme of the middle class - after he loses his fortune, Pip becomes a merchant and
eventually ends up in the middle class

 29) Who composed Great Expectations?
 – Charles Dickens
 30) What is the point of view of Great Expectations? Who is the narrator?
 - The story is told by a first-person narrator, Pip, who is telling his own story. The narrator
is limited, which we know since he doesn't know where Joe has gone when he goes out to
find him.
 31) Which character relates the most to the title Great Expectations? How?
 - The title clearly refers to Pip. In the extract, Pip's "great expectations" are a large sum of
money and becoming a gentleman. The money gives Pip the opportunity he always wanted -
to become a gentleman. However, considering the fact that this leads to nothing but
disappointment, the title seems more and more ironic as the book goes on.
 32) Tell the themes of Great Expectations? What is the most important theme?
 - Appearance, social class, success, crime, guilt, life’s hardship (The theme of social class is
most important to the section)
 33) What is Pip preoccupied with?
 - Pip is very preoccupied with moving up socially and becoming a gentleman.
 34) How Satis House and Joe’s house play an important role in the novel?
 - Satis House represents a life of leisure and inherited money that Pip dreams of. However,
it is inhabited by a woman who refuses to let time move forward and this shows us that it is
not a noble goal. Joe's house represents home, love, and family. Joe is happy there and
shows the value of hard work.
 35) Describe about Pip and Joe: similarities and differences?

 In terms of the story it is probably Pip and Joe are both different and the same. At first Pip
has "great expectations" of a large sum of money and becoming a gentleman. Once getting
money, Pip becomes snobbish and looks down on people like Joe, who has not changed
throughout the story. Unlike Pip, Joe doesn't try to overreach his boundaries. Instead, he
accepts his place, in the lower class. Having lost his fortune, Pip becomes a merchant and
eventually ends up in the middle class.

 As the novel progresses, Pip becomes more like Joe. He learns from his mistakes and begins
to value hard work. He accepts his life and tries to be content with it.


 36) What is the symbol of Miss Havisham’s white wedding dress?
 Bổ sung thêm câu trả lời phần xanh lá cây
 - The white wedding dress she still wears is very much a symbol of death. lt may seem
strange to say that a wedding dress symbolizes death, but on an old woman like Miss
Havisham, it creates a horrible contrast and makes her appear almost like a preserved
Egyptian mummy. Don't forget that it also becomes the instrument of her actual death,
when it catches fire and gives her severe burns, which she never recovers from.


 37) What is the symbol of “stopped clocks”? Which character does the symbol relate to?

 The stopped clocks are the most important symbols in the novel. The symbol relates to Miss
Havisham, who is stuck in the past. She can't stop thinking about her loss. In the end, she
suffers for it. She is a warning to other people not to get stuck in the past. And the stopped
clocks are a physical representation of her obsession.

 38) Who is your most favorite character among the characters that you have learned? Why?
What moral lessons have you learned from him/her? How do you apply these lessons to
your study and life?
 Phần này các em viết tự do. Một số ví dụ:
 From Thành Trung’s Group: My most favourite character is Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and
Prejudice and the reason that I like her character. She is an intelligient girl, frank with what
she like and do not like, dare to find true love. But she's also suffering from the mistakes,
 what counts is that she knew fix her mistakes. The lesson I received from her that no one is
perfect, everyone always has their own strengths and weaknesses. Let's pursue our own
dreams and experiences drawn from his own mistakes. So we do not just judge a person
when he makes mistakes. We should learn from many angles before identified a situation.


 From Hạo Nhiên’s group: My most favourite character is Robinson Crusoe. He taught me
how to survive in a deserted islang and gave me a glimpse of how human’s behavior is like
in a situation like that. Moral lessons I have learnt are patience, determination, adaptability,
compassion. I apply these lessons to my study pretty well. I have to make choices, to be
flexible in my study schedule.
 39) What useful lessons have you learned from this subject? Do you think students should
learn English Literature? Why?
 From Thành Trung’s Group: This subject gives me a different perspective on literature as
well as provide additional knowledge of the era, the cultural and the characteristic of
Western literature. I think students should learn English Literature because Literature is a
measure of society's code of conduct. Literature given to ethical standards as well as how to
behave among people. At the same time it also as means to help people understand the
world around them and relieve stress.

 From Tieu Nhu’s view: This subject brings a different perspective on literature – the
process of struggle and change in society as well as the knowledge of the Western history.
Each one of writers mentioned different issuees but always carries the breath of the times. I
think students should learn English literature because literature is the spread of social
thought. It’s a mindset oriented society, bringing human conceptions to us. It always
exposes the problems with its own perspective and the problem never be old.

 From Hạo Nhiên’s group: Useful lessons I have learned form this subject are that I know
how to analyze poems, and deep understand in poem structure.
 I believe students should learn English literature because students can develop their way of
thinking, be opened with new ideas, which they can apply the their lives.
 40) To share about English writers, which writer would you like to talk about him/her?
Why?
 From Hạo Nhiên’s group: Among all the writers, I believe that William Shakespera is the
best British writer of all time for his many works are about life, death, revenge, grief,
jealousy, murder, magic and mystery. He left behind such beaufiful stories and his works
have inspired young generations, as well as the creation of astounding literary landmarks.
 From Tiểu Như’s group: Among all the writers who we had learnt, I would like to talk
about Jane Austin. She was the female novelist in the British in the Queen Elizabeth I era.
Her novels consisted of the social inequality in that time and most of her works talking
about the women, the independence and marriage. The reason why I like to talk about her
is that her works talk about the inequalities which women of her lifetime had to face and
their desire to escape it as to reach for a better life. Though Jane died young, she continues
to be well-loved and one of the most-adapted of English authors to screeen and stage.