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1. Bookworms Club Gold
2020

2. Aims
“The railway crossing”
Roles
Note-taking
The author
Vocabulary
Story reading. Pages 16-20

3. ROLES

4. DISCUSSION LEADER -
Manuel
Prepare 3 comprehension questions
1. Why Dunstan Thwaite had to pay John Dunn?
2. How does John Dunn die?
3. What is the police investigating at the end of the story?

5. SUMMARIZER - Blanca
Take notes about the characters, events and ideas, and
fi
nd the key points that everyone must
know to understand and remember the story
Main events
1. Thwaite steals money and Dunn asks him for it
2. Thwaite decides to kill him and starts his plan
3. Thwaite’s plan fails and he decides not to kill Dunn, but Dunn dies accidentally
Characters
1. Duncan Thwaite
2. John Dunn
3. Mss Hilda Lorraine
4. Jane
My summary
Thwaite was a poor man who fell in love with a woman, who liked expensive items and plans. He had no money for the
wedding, so he decided to steal one hundred pounds, but Dunn, a man who worked with him at the of
fi
ce, discovered that
he stole the money, so he starts to ask him for money, more and more each time so Thwaite decides to kill him. He starts
his plan, he tell Dunn to come to his house, and he gives Dunn a whiskey with sleeping powder inside, but his plan
fi
nally
fails because he forgot his keys inside the house, so he cannot enter back without getting . He leaves Dunn and goes back
home. The next day he heard that Dunn died in the railway. The police talked with Thwaite and he told them the true story.

6. WORD MASTER- Javier
Take notes about the characters, events and ideas, and
fi
nd the key points that everyone
must know to understand and remember the story
Main events
1. …
2. …
3. …
Characters
1. …
2. …
3. …
My
summary
Word Meaning Quote
Powder Fine, dry particles produced by the grinding,
crushing, or disintegration of a solid substance.
“(…) a sleeping powder, the hands o a clock, a
passing freight (…)” (Page 1)
Trouble Dif
fi
culty or problem. Is a synonym of problem. “(…) He’s in a bit of , you see (…)” (Page 2)
Blackmailed
Demand money or another bene
fi
t from (someone) in return for
not revealing compromising or damaging information about them. “(…) that he was being balckmailed (…)” (Page 2)
Hammer
A tool with a heavy metal head mounted at right angles at the end of a
handle, used for jobs such as breaking things and driving in nails.
“(…) Then he put a hammer into a pocket on his
overcoat (…)” (Page 4)
Torch A portable battery-powered electric lamp.
“(…) Then he put a hammer into a pocket on his overcoat, and a
torch into another pocket (…)” (Page 4)
Clock forward Relating to the future
“(…) on the study clock forward by ten minutes (…)”
(Page 4)
Alibi
A claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act,
especialy a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place. “(…)” would give him his alibi “(…)” (Page 4)
Shook Emotionally or physically distrubed; upset. “(…)” Dunn shook his dead “(…)” (Page 5)
Freight
Goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or
aircraft.
“(…)” a freight train would do the rest “(…)” (Page 7)
Unopened Not opened
“(…)” but there was an unopened bottle next to it
“(…)” (Page 5)

7. CONNECTOR - Eduardo
Look for 3 connections between the story and the world outside, to your own experience or to
real-life events
1. All the murderers think a lot about how to carry out the plan.
2. Stealing for debt.
3. Using sleeping powder is a very common thing among murderers.

8. Note-taking
There are a number of things that you have to do while you read a text. To
develop aspects such as language acquisition and critical thinking, you will
hace to highlight words, speci
fi
c parts of the text or to down notes. To do
that, please comply with the following color code:
• YELLOW. Highlight new and interesting vocabulary.
• BLUE. Highlight textual evidence that will help you answer questions
that may be posed in a certain task or activity.
• PINK. Highlight sentences or ideas that you
fi
nd interesting for some
reason.
• GREY. Write down personal notes or ideas that are connected to the text
somehow.
We will all use the same color code.

9. The Railway Crossing
By Will Crofts

10. The author
Career
He was a novelist
and a civil engineer
Freeman Wills Crofts
Dates of birth and death
Birth: 1st of June of 1879
Death: 11th of April of 1957
Place of birth:
Dublin, Ireland
In
fl
uencer
Agatha Christie
Activities: Freeman
created he Golden age
of detective
fi
ction and
did detective novels
and about murder
mystery.

11. Vocabulary
G
1 Sleeping powders A
2 Blackmail B
3 Figures F
4 Hammer D
5 Torch E
6 Alibi C
7 Punishment G
8 Freight H A
C
D
E
F H
G
B

12. The Railway Crossing
By Will Crofts

13. Note-taking
There are a number of things that you have to do while you read a text. To
develop aspects such as language acquisition and critical thinking, you will
hace to highlight words, speci
fi
c parts of the text or to down notes. To do
that, please comply with the following color code:
• YELLOW. Highlight new and interesting vocabulary.
• BLUE. Highlight textual evidence that will help you answer questions
that may be posed in a certain task or activity.
• PINK. Highlight sentences or ideas that you
fi
nd interesting for some
reason.
• GREY. Write down personal notes or ideas that are connected to the text
somehow.
We will all use the same color code.

14. Did you make short-term and long-term decisions that were useful
for the undertaking of the project?
Were you effective with each
of the tasks?
Did your group create a
constructive working
atmosphere?
Did everyone in the group comply
with their role ef
fi
ciently?
Did you interact face to face with your
classmates, using adequate volume
levels?
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CO-EVALUATION

15. “If we were all as wise as we
should be, we would have no
stories to tell.”