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The Enemy

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Before Reading

chApter 7 while reading

Encourage students to speculate and to make guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will find out as they read that the answers are 1a, 2c and 3a.

Before reading activities (page 108) Activity 1 before reading

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Malcolm Jaggard Malcolm Jaggard George Ashton George and Penny Ashton Penny Ashton’s sister / George Ashton’s other daughter 6 Politicians

chApters 8 to 10 while reading

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Activity 2 before reading

Students will find out as they read that the ‘yes’ answers are 2, 3, 4 (soon after the end of the story), 5 and 6.

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Activity 3 before reading

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Open answers. The basic meaning of sentence 1 is that the speaker is confident of beating the enemy. Sentence 2 implies that the enemy is hidden amongst people who are apparently friends and allies. It could be interesting to ask students to answer this question again when they have read the book and to ask them if they agree with sentence 2. Original source of quotations: 1 Oliver Hazard Perry, heroic American commodore 2 Walt Kelly, subversive sociological cartoonist

chApters 11 to 13 while reading

1 To continue to investigate the Ashton case. 2 Advising on the building and safety of a new laboratory. 3 The model railway. 4 By talking to Penny and reading her books. 5 In the timetables for his model railway, which was a computer. 6 Because Cregar’s special interest was in biological and chemical weapons. 7 That Benson was Cregar’s man.

While Reading

chApters 14 to 16 while reading

1 How . . .? In a fisherman’s boat. 2 Why . . .? Because Malcolm told him that Ogilvie had the letter that was found in Benson’s pocket. 3 What . . .? There was an accident at the laboratory and she was made ill by bacteria. 4 What . . .? He would send Penny to hospital. 5 Who . . .? The local fishermen. 6 How . . .? Malcolm hit Cregar and his gun went off. 7 What . . .? Dangerous bacteria. 8 Why . . .? Because he was given orders not to let him ever go back to the Russians. 9 Why . . .? Because he wanted to do something that people would remember. 10 Who . . .? Peter Michaelis. 11 What . . .? He showed the mathematical basis of genetics. 12 Why . . .? To keep them from politicians like Cregar and the Minister. 13 Why . . .? Because he thought it would destroy the honest part of him.

chApters 1 to 3 while reading

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Penny Ashton + 11 Malcolm Jaggard + 12 Benson + 8 Gillian Ashton + 7 George Ashton + 9 Ogilvie + 10

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chApters 4 to 6 while reading

1 Gillian was blind / was badly injured. 2 Penny didn’t agree to marry Malcolm immediately / agreed to marry Malcolm but couldn’t say when. 3 Lord Cregar was an important politician / man in the government. 4 Ashton disappeared because he wanted to protect Penny. 5 Malcolm told Penny the truth about his job, but he didn’t tell her father. 6 The three surprising things that they found in Ashton’s house were a laboratory, a secret strongroom, and a model railway.

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Malcolm to Gillian about himself and Penny. Michaelis to Malcolm about the model railway. Crammond to Malcolm about Mayberry. Mayberry to Malcolm about Penny. Professor Lumsden to Malcolm about his experiments. Ogilvie to Malcolm about Ashton. Ogilvie to Malcolm about the Russians who were watching Ashton. Henty to Malcolm about Ashton walking towards the guns. Henty to Malcolm about Benson.

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Activity 2 after reading

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).

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 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 Penny’s sister who was injured in Mayberry’s attack. Then Penny became ill in Scotland after an accident in Cregar’s secret laboratory; some dangerous bacteria escaped and made her very ill.

After Reading Activity 1 after reading

Possible answers: malColm: Hello, sir. I was trying to get hold of you. ogilvie: Why? What’s happened? malColm: Well, I’m afraid the department owes me £31,000. ogilvie: What? £31,000! Have you gone completely mad? malColm: Not at all. I’ve bought Ashton’s model railway. ogilvie: Bought his railway? And you want me to pay for it? You’re an idiot! If you want a boy’s toy . . . malColm: Just a minute, sir. It’s not a toy. I believe it’s 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 didn’t understand at the time, but I do now. ogilvie: You may understand, but I’m afraid I don’t! malColm: It was Michaelis who made me think of it. He told me that Ashton’s timetables didn’t fit the books that he had. In fact, they didn’t fit any normal pattern. ogilvie: So you’re telling me that the railway . . .? malColm: Yes, I believe the railway is a sort of mechanical computer, and the timetables are programs. ogilvie: That’s all very well, but why did you have to buy the model? Couldn’t you just stop the auction? malColm: The auctioneer refused to stop without a letter from Penny herself, and I couldn’t 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 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

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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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Activity 5 after reading

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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 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 wouldn’t have gone to Scotland, and so she and Malcolm wouldn’t have been made ill by the bacteria. 2 If Mayberry had not thrown the acid, George Ashton wouldn’t 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 wouldn’t have disappeared. 4 If George Ashton hadn’t disappeared, perhaps he wouldn’t have been killed. 5 If Hartman had bought the model railway, Malcolm’s department wouldn’t have found out what was in Ashton’s computer programs. 6 If Benson had not been loyal to Cregar, he probably wouldn’t have shot Ashton. 7 If Ogilvie had let Malcolm talk to Ashton in Sweden, Ashton would not have been killed. Activity 7 after reading

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