John Steinbeck's audiobook listening task sheet. An Audiobook reading performance of The Pearl by John Steinbeck with associated questions visible to students as the audiobook plays. Question sheet can be accessed here: When Coyotito, an infant, is stung by a scorpion, Kino, his father, must find a way to pay the town doctor to treat him. The doctor denies Kino, an indigenous fisherman, out of racism, which enrages him. Shortly thereafter, Kino discovers an enormous, lucid pearl which he is ready to sell to pay the doctor. Everyone calls it "the Pearl of the World," and many people begin to covet it. That very night Kino is attacked in his own home. Determined to get rid of the pearl, the following morning he takes it to the pearl auction in town; however, the auction is actually a corrupt sham and always has been. The buyers normally fake auction each pearl and pretend bid against each other, but in reality they are all paid a salary by a single man, they all turn the pearls over to him and he resells them outside the village, thus cheating the locals. The corrupt pearl buyers try to convince Kino that the pearl is the equivalent of "fools gold" and they refuse to pay any more than incredibly low amounts of money. Kino decides to go over the mountains to the capital to find a better price. Juana, Kino's wife, sees that the pearl brings darkness and greed, and sneaks out of the house late at night to throw it back into the ocean. When Kino catches her, he furiously attacks her and leaves her on the beach. Slides and Worksheets available here: http://www.slideshare.net/skolber Email me at :mrkolbersteaching@gmail.com Backdrop images from: https://pixabay.com/en/users/hadania-19110/

1. The Pearl – Chapter 4 – Listening Task 5
https://youtu.be/sCNEsjWZFYg
Source Video from= 1 :07 -1 0 – 1 :35.2
1) Who knew about the Pearl the most?
2) What makes a pearl buyerhappy?
3) What do the neighbours say they would do with the Pearl?
4) The neighbours are worried about Kino turning his head, what do they mean?
5) What would Kino and Juana have tomorrow?
6) Who walked with Kino as he approachedthe town?
7) What had happened to the villages two pearl agents?
8) How did the town view these events? Who was ultimately to blame?
9) What did the pearl buyers do as Kino and the procession approached?
10) What small sign shows that the first pearl buyer was impressedby the Pearl?
11) What does the pearl buyer call the Pearl?
12) What price does he offer?
13) What price does the second pearl buyer offer?
14) What price does the thirdpearl buyer offer?
15) What price does the fourth pearl buyer offer?
16) What is Kino’s response to these offers?
17) A villager is bound to be what from their birth to theirdeath?
18) What song appears here?
19) What song is sung in attempt to fight it?
20)What happens to Kino in the darkness?
21) What does Juana call the Pearl?
22) What reason does Kino say for fighting on, because he is what?