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RAIN MAN Chapter 1 Answer the questions a. What kind of work does Charlie do? b. What is the problem with his business at the moment? c. Why are Charlie and his girlfriend driving through the desert? d. What news does Charlie receive? e. When is his father’s funeral? f. Why does Charlie say, ‘Sorry about the weekend’? g. Why does Susanna say, ‘the weekend?’? h. How does Charlie feel about his father? Why? i. What do you think Charlie will find out when he meets his father’s lawyer?

RAIN MAN Chapter 1 Describe Charlie. How does he look? Do you like him? Why/why not? Describe Susanna. How does she look? Do you like her more or less than Charlie? Say why?

RAIN MAN Chapter 2 Are these sentences right or wrong? If they are wrong, make them right. a. Charlie goes to his father’s house. b. His father’s house is in a poor part of Cincinatti. c. Charlie loves the roses. d. Charlie’s father was seventy when he wrote the letter. e. Charlie’s father only gave Charlie the Buick. f. Charlie’s father gave someone else two million dollars. g. This person will use the money immediately. h. Charlie is very angry about his father’s will.

RAIN MAN Chapter 2 Work in pairs What have you learnt about Charlie’s past life? Write it down. Imagine that Charlie and his father can talk to each other. What will they say to each other? Make the conversation.

RAIN MAN Chapter 3 Answer these questions. a. Why does Charlie go to his father’s bank? b. Why does Charlie go to Wallbrook Home? c. Why does Charlie talk to Raymond? What does Charlie know? d. Why is Charlie astonished at the end of the chapter? Why do you think he didn’t know this?

RAIN MAN Chapters 1-3 Choose the correct answer: A: Susanna a. has always known about Charlie’s rich father b. feels sorry for Charlie c. talks to Raymond while Charlie is with Dr.Brunner B: Charlie feels angry about the will because a. he hates roses b. his father has let him nothing c. he doesn’t know who has got the money C: Raymond a. is about 14 years older than his brother b. has small blue eyes c. has a sad face

RAIN MAN Chapters 1-3 How does Charlie feel, and why, when … a. the banks asks him for money? b. he hears his father has died? c. he finds a coat in his father’s house? d. he remembers his father’s car? e. Raymond talks to him? f. Dr. Brunner tells him about his brother?