After you read
6 Are these sentences true or false?
a Colonel Arbuthnot and Miss Debenham do not seem to
know each other very well,
b
It is always difficult to get a sleeping compartment on the
Orient Express,
c
M. Poirot takes the bed of a man who booked but did not
catch the train,
d Mr Ratchett thinks that someone wants to kill him.
e M. Poirot is going to try to protect Mr Ratchett.
f
The train stops because a stranger is found in Mrs
Hubbard’s compartment.
7 Discuss these questions.
a Which character interests you most in this chapter? Why?
b Would you like to travel on a train like the Orient Express?
Why (not)?
Chapter 2
Before you read
8 Discuss these questions.
a In this chapter, a dead body is discovered. Who do you
think has been murdered?
b What action will Poirot decide to take?
While you read
9 Complete the sentences with the correct words.
a
M
wants Poirot to solve the murder.
b Mr Ratchett received threatening.........................
c
M r ....................... thinks that Ratchett isn’t his employer’s
real name.
d Some of the wounds were made when Ratchett was
a lre a d y........................
e
Daisy Armstrong w a s ....................... and killed by Cassetti
and his team of gangsters.
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A fter you read
10 Which of these possible clues were found in Ratchett’s
compartment?
an open window
an empty glass
a knife
fingerprints
a handkerchief
a burnt note
money
a pocket watch
a gun
a pipe cleaner
a used match
11 Discuss the clues from activity 10. Describe them in as much
detail as possible. What do you think they tell us about the
murder?
12 Work in pairs. Have this conversation.
Student A: You are Michel, the train conductor. Tell M. Bouc
about the dead body that you have discovered.
You are very upset.
Student B : You are M. Bouc. Ask Michel questions about his
discovery of a dead body. You are very upset.
13 What words are used to describe Ratchett/Cassetti? Do
you feel at all sorry for him, or do you feel that his death was
deserved?
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