Reading Challenge #1


Reading Challenge #1

What skill do you want to learn in 2018?

Reading is a FANTASTIC way to improve your English, no matter what level you’re at. And for many more reasons than you might think.
Whatever level you are, you should be reading something in English.

Do you want to join a Reading Challenge?

Have you read Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante?

For eighteen months she had waited for a murder case but every time
something happened, every time there was a murder case, it was given to
one of the male officers. Murders were ‘man’s work’, it seemed.
When a young woman is found horribly murdered, Detective
Chief Inspector Jane Tennison at last gets the chance she needs to
prove herself.
She must work fast to catch the murderer and stop him killing
again. But she must also fight to win the respect of the men she
commands.
And the men are hoping she’ll fail, every step of the way. She
must make no mistakes.
Then a second body is found . . .
Lynda La Plante’s crime stories and TV films have made her one of
Britain’s most successful writers. She was born in 1946 in Liverpool,
England, and was an actress on TV and in the theatre before she
became a writer. Her first TV series, Widows, was shown in
twenty-six countries and her first novel, The Legacy, was an
international bestseller.
She spends months or even years finding out about a subject
before she writes about it, and sometimes puts herself in dangerous
situations to do so. ‘People say my characters are very real ─ that’s
because they are real,’ she says.
Prime Suspect is the first of three stories about Detective Chief
Inspector Jane Tennison. All the stories were very successful TV
films.

For those who wish to participate, to read & discuss as a group, please read chapter 1.

NOTE: This book group event is listed at 5 PM at GMT+2 (Egypt time) on Zoom platform.

Prime Suspect (Penguin Readers Level 5) by Lynda La Plante, it is in PDF file.

The audio CD is found here  Audio CD

Comprehension & Discussion

Chapter 1

After you have read this chapter, please answer the following questions;

  1. Do you always read about the author?
  2. When and where is the story set?
  3. Who are the main characters?
  4. What do you know about them?
  5. What happens to them in Chapter 1?
  6. How did Della Mornay die? When? Where?
  7. What kind of person was Della Mornay?
  8. When and where did Otley’s wife (Ellen) die?
  9. Where does George Arthur Marlow live and with whom?
  10. What impression do we get of his character?

Chapter 2

After you have read this chapter, please answer the following questions;

11. Who is Kernan?

12. Why did Jane Tennison go to Kernan‘s office?

13. Why isn’t Jane Tennison allowed to investigate the murder?

Chapter 3

After you have read this chapter, please answer the following questions;

14. How did Tennison know the murdered girl was not Della Mornay?

15. Would you want to work with somebody like Jane Tennison? Why or
why not?

Chapter 4 

After you have read this chapter, please answer the following questions;

16. Where was the real Della’s body found?

17. What do you suppose the killer’s motive was?

Chapter 5

After you have read this chapter, please answer the following questions;

18. Why is Peter getting annoyed with Jane?

Chapter 6

After you have read this chapter, please answer the following questions;

19. Why did Shefford tear some pages out of Della’s diary?

20. How are Jane and her sister, Pam, different?

Chapter 7

After you have read this chapter, please answer the following questions;

21. What did the DNA tests on Marlow show?

Please reply and share at least one question, at least three vocabulary words/phrases, and your favourite sentence or paragraph from Prime Suspect.

I’ll add mine after at least three other participants respond, okay?

Click here to the discussion board.

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