THE TELL-TALE HEART

Read The Tell-Tale Heart. Here are some untrue sentences about it. Change them into true sentences.

1. Because of his disease the narrator had terrible heating.

2. The old man had once hurt the narrator in some way.

3. The narrator decided to kill the old man because of his gold.

4. The narrator took thirty minutes to put his head inside the old man’s room

5. The old man could see and hear the narrator in his room.

6. The narrator felt sorry when he saw the old man’s eye.

7. The narrator pulled a heavy table on top of the old man.

8. He hid the old man’s dead body behind the wall.

9. The policemen came to the house because a neighbor had seen a strange man there.

10. The narrator told the police that the old man was away in hospital.

11. When the narrator spoke more loudly, the noise in the room became quieter.

12. The noise in the room was the old man’s watch.

In the Tell-Tale Heart a neighbor talks to the police. Put their conversation in the correct order and write in the speakers’ names. The policeman speaks first (Number 7).

1. _____ “This old man – do you know him?”

2. _____ “well, there was a terrible noise tonight from the house next door – like a great shout or a scream.”

3. _____ “strange? In what way?”

4. _____ “Hmm. I think I should go next door and ask a few questions. Thank you for telling us about this.”

5. _____ “I’m not sure – about two o’clock perhaps”

6. _____ I went to the window and looked out. I didn’t see anyone, but there was a light in the old man’s room.

7. _____”Now, sir, what’s the problem?”

8. _____ “So what did you do then?”

9. _____”He talks to himself – and he has really wild eyes.”

10. _____ “Oh, yes – he is a very nice man. A younger man lives in the house too – but he’s a bit strange.”

11. _____ “No, just one. But after that there was a loud bang – like something heavy falling to the floor.”

12. _____ “Two o’clock. I see. And were there any more screams?”