lonely )وحٌدا (ٌشعـر بالوحـدة
) اٌوـنعم (- Despite his friends, he feels lonely.
- all the village كل القرٌة =the whole village
start / begin +
(v-ing / to + inf.)
دأبٌ - It started to rain.- It started raining.
Obj. + am / is / are
- p.p
مضارع بسٌط مبنى
للمجهول- Silas‘s gold is found and returned to him.
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Work as a phrasal verb
work on الشـاٌصنـع أو ٌصلـح أو ٌحسـن work up ٌحسـن أو ٌطـور أو ٌنمـى
work on ٌحاول أن ٌقنـع الشخـص work ( himself ) up ٌتضـاٌق أو ٌغضـب
work in / into ٌمـزج work for ٌعمـل لحسـاب
work out ٌتدرب بانتظـام^ - ٌحسـب^ - ٌحل work in someone's ٌفٌـد^ - ٌعمـل لصالح
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Silas Marner is a famous novel that was written by the English writer George Eliot and published in 1861.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner is a weaver who lives in the village of Raveloe in England. The other people in the
village aren‘t very friendly to Silas because he‘s new to the village and he lives alone.
Fifteen years earlier, Silas had been engaged to be married to a girl called Sarah. One day,
while Silas was taking care of a friend who was sick, a bag of money disappeared from under
the friend‘s bed.
A man called William Dane finds the empty bag and Silas‘s friends decide that he is guilty of
stealing the money. Later, William marries Sarah instead, and Silas decides to move to the
village of Raveloe. The only thing he cares about is his work as a weaver. All Silas wants to do is
work as hard as he can to earn as much money as he can. The richest man in Raveloe, Squire
Cass, has two sons: Dunstan and Godfrey. The two sons have their own problems which they
hide from their father and they always want to have more money.
One night, a bag of gold is stolen from Silas‘s house and the whole village joins in to look for it.
The local people feel sorry for him and are more friendly to him. Silas is angry and wants to
solve the mystery.
Drill 1
Vocabulary
Use these words to complete the defnitions.
Disappear guilty mystery solve engaged weaver
1 A ..................... is something unknown.
2 A ..................... person did something bad.
3 To ..................... something is to find the answer.
4 A ..................... is a person who makes cloth.
5 To ..................... is to become impossible to find.
6 To be ..................... is to be in a relationship to get married.
Pre-reading Question