Reading Activities by Eva Ibbotson

Chapter 13 & Chapter 14

1. Use a dictionary or ICT to look up the word ‘obstinate’ and write the meaning of it in your jotter.

2. Describe Miss Minton’s connections with Westwood

3. What did Miss Minton find that was going to make her some money?

Answer's

1. Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so.
2. Miss Minton used to be a maid there and had also met Finns father.
3. Miss Minton found a Hanet's Swollowtail
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