Dracula By Bram Stoker
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LEVEL 3
PENGUIN READERS
Teacher Support Programme
Dracula
Bram Stoker
for help. Lucy dies and is buried. A number of children are then found with marks on their necks and Van Helsing knows that Lucy has come back to life as a vampire. He and his companions go to the coffin and push a wooden stake into her heart and cut off her head. Van Helsing sets out a plan to kill Dracula. The men first go to Carfax
House, where Dracula is thought to be hiding, but they find nothing except old boxes full of earth. Then, they witness Mina drinking Dracula’s blood. They challenge him but he escapes. Van Helsing knows that Dracula has infected Mina in the same way as Lucy, and there follows a race against time. They …show more content…
After midnight, he and Seward go into Lucy’s tomb and discover she is not in her coffin. Then they see her outside the tomb with a small child in her arms. The next night, Van Helsing,
Seward, Arthur and Quincey Morris go to the tomb.
Once again, Lucy is not in her coffin but they wait until morning and see her returning with another child. When
Lucy returns to her coffin, Arthur, under instruction from
Van Helsing, pushes a wooden stick into her heart, and the vampire is dead.
Chapters 9–10: The men decide to catch and kill
Dracula. They know he is living in Carfax House in
London. They enter the house and find boxes full of earth.
Suddenly, the place fills with rats and the men run away.
Renfield, the madman, is attacked in his room. Before he dies, he talks of having seen Dracula and that Mina might be involved with him. They run quickly to Mina’s room and find her in the arms of a man and she is drinking blood from his chest.
They show him their crosses and the vampire disappears.
Mina is now worried that she will become a vampire and
Van Helsing consoles her.
Chapter 11: The men discover that Dracula is …show more content…
48, after ‘They reached out their arms, calling for Mina.’)
13 Role play: Put the students in groups of four. They decide who is going to be Mina and who is going to be the three women. Then tell them to role play a conversation. The three women must give their reasons why Mina should leave the circle, and Mina should try and resist.
After reading
14 Research: Ask the students to research on the Internet the films that have been made about Dracula. The students then give an oral presentation of the films.
Remind them to include the following: When it was made? Who were the actors? Was the story the same as the book? You could extend the research to all the films that feature a vampire, not only Dracula.
15 Write: Tell the students that Dracula has decided that he wants a flat mate and he is going to put an advert in the local paper. Put the students in pairs and ask them to write the advert. The advert should describe his castle and himself, and what type of person he is looking for. Tell the students the adverts should be funny. They can read out their adverts and the class can vote for the funniest.
Vocabulary activities
For the Word List and vocabulary activities, go to
LEVEL 3
PENGUIN READERS
Teacher Support Programme
Dracula
Bram Stoker
for help. Lucy dies and is buried. A number of children are then found with marks on their necks and Van Helsing knows that Lucy has come back to life as a vampire. He and his companions go to the coffin and push a wooden stake into her heart and cut off her head. Van Helsing sets out a plan to kill Dracula. The men first go to Carfax
House, where Dracula is thought to be hiding, but they find nothing except old boxes full of earth. Then, they witness Mina drinking Dracula’s blood. They challenge him but he escapes. Van Helsing knows that Dracula has infected Mina in the same way as Lucy, and there follows a race against time. They …show more content…
After midnight, he and Seward go into Lucy’s tomb and discover she is not in her coffin. Then they see her outside the tomb with a small child in her arms. The next night, Van Helsing,
Seward, Arthur and Quincey Morris go to the tomb.
Once again, Lucy is not in her coffin but they wait until morning and see her returning with another child. When
Lucy returns to her coffin, Arthur, under instruction from
Van Helsing, pushes a wooden stick into her heart, and the vampire is dead.
Chapters 9–10: The men decide to catch and kill
Dracula. They know he is living in Carfax House in
London. They enter the house and find boxes full of earth.
Suddenly, the place fills with rats and the men run away.
Renfield, the madman, is attacked in his room. Before he dies, he talks of having seen Dracula and that Mina might be involved with him. They run quickly to Mina’s room and find her in the arms of a man and she is drinking blood from his chest.
They show him their crosses and the vampire disappears.
Mina is now worried that she will become a vampire and
Van Helsing consoles her.
Chapter 11: The men discover that Dracula is …show more content…
48, after ‘They reached out their arms, calling for Mina.’)
13 Role play: Put the students in groups of four. They decide who is going to be Mina and who is going to be the three women. Then tell them to role play a conversation. The three women must give their reasons why Mina should leave the circle, and Mina should try and resist.
After reading
14 Research: Ask the students to research on the Internet the films that have been made about Dracula. The students then give an oral presentation of the films.
Remind them to include the following: When it was made? Who were the actors? Was the story the same as the book? You could extend the research to all the films that feature a vampire, not only Dracula.
15 Write: Tell the students that Dracula has decided that he wants a flat mate and he is going to put an advert in the local paper. Put the students in pairs and ask them to write the advert. The advert should describe his castle and himself, and what type of person he is looking for. Tell the students the adverts should be funny. They can read out their adverts and the class can vote for the funniest.
Vocabulary activities
For the Word List and vocabulary activities, go to