Fill in the blank spaces in the following chapter summaries using the spare words in the box. Once completed, compare these summaries to the summaries you have written in your booklets and add anything you might have missed. CLOZE ACTIVITIES Lordofthe Flies By William Golding Name ______________________
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Fill in the blank spaces in the following chapter summaries using the spare words
in the box. Once completed, compare these summaries to the summaries you
have written in your booklets and add anything you might have missed.
CLOZE ACTIVITIES
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Name ______________________
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Chapter 1
“The sound of the shell”
Asthma Aunt Badge Bomb Cap Chief Choir
Conch Fat Flames Golden Hair Hunters Jack
Kill Knife Navy Piggy Piglet Shell Simon
Spectacles Swim Twelve Vote
The story begins with the boy with fair ______________ climbing down the rocks. A voice behind him calls
out for him to wait. This voice comes from a ______________ boy who wears ______________ or glasses.
The first boy introduces himself as, Ralph and the second boy introduces himself as ______________.
The two boys are on an island with no grown-ups because their plane was shot down. Ralph, who is
______________ years old, thinks that the pilot will be back to get the boys, but Piggy tells him that he saw
the part of the plane with the pilot in ______________. He continues to tell Ralph that the passenger part of
the plane was carried out to sea by a storm. Piggy assumes that there must be other boys on the island.
Ralph seems not to pay too much attention to Piggy and runs through the jungle. Piggy says that he
shouldn’t run on account of his ______________.
Ralph gets naked and goes for a swim in the pool. Piggy does not go because he cannot ______________;
he wasn’t allowed to because of his asthma. Ralph says he learned how because his dad is in the
______________. Piggy’s father is dead, and he was living with his ______________. He tells Piggy that his
father will come and rescue them once he gets some time off. Piggy doesn’t think this is possible because
the pilot had told them that there was an atom ______________ and the people at the airport were all dead.
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After Ralph’s swim, the two boys come across a conch; a ______________ that can be used like a trumpet
to call any other boys on the island. The ______________ was cream colour with a bit of fading pink
throughout the shell. After Ralph gets the conch to sound, boys start gathering in front of Ralph and Piggy.
Many boys come, but the last group of boys is a choir. Each member wears a black ______________ with
a silver ______________ on it. Their entire bodies are covered by a black cloak, which “bore a silver cross
on the left breast.” The boy who is in charge of this group wears a ______________ badge on his cap. This
boy introduces himself by his last name Merridew although his first name is ______________.
After everyone laughs at Piggy because of his name and after everyone introduces themselves, Ralph
suggests that they decide on a chief to make decisions. Jack says that he should be chief because he is
the head boy of the ______________ and he can sing a C sharp. Roger suggests that all the boys vote to
see who should be ______________. The boys ______________ Ralph to be chief. Ralph offers Jack
control of the choir, and Jack decides that the choir will be ______________.
Ralph, Jack, and ______________ go on an exploration to decide that they are indeed on an island. On
their way back from the exploration, they find a ______________ stuck in the creepers. Jack raises his
______________ to kill it, but he hesitates and it gets away. He promises himself that the next time he has
the chance to ______________ there will be no mercy.
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Beastie Branch Cold Conch Fear Fire Glasses
Hunters Island Last Match Mountain Pig Piggy
Ralph Rescued Rules Shelters Simon Six Smoke
True Wood Younger
After the three boys - Ralph, Jack, and ______________ return from their exploration, Ralph explains to the
rest of the boys that they are indeed on an uninhabited ______________. Jack tells the boys about the
need for ______________ and the story of the ______________ that they encountered.
Realising that there needs to be order, Ralph tells the boys that there needs to be ______________ when
speaking. The boy who holds the ______________ is the only one allowed to talk. And the only one who is
allowed to interrupt is ______________.
Piggy takes the conch and is upset because nobody is allowing Ralph to say what is most important.
______________ tells the boys that nobody knows they are there. Ralph tells the boys that that is
______________, but the island is terrific and they will have a good time while they wait to be
______________.
Chapter 2
“Fire on the mountain”
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Jack asks if anyone else has found anything. No one speaks, but a little boy of about ______________
years of age comes up. He timidly takes the conch and speaks. He asks what is going to be done about
the snake-thing; he later calls it a ______________. The boys laughed at first, but later they sense some
______________. Ralph tries to make everyone comfortable by telling them that an island couldn’t have a
beastie.
Ralph suggests that making a ______________ will help get the boys rescued. Jack yells, “Follow me,” and
the boys rashly run up to the top of the ______________ and gather dried ______________ to start a fire.
Piggy is the ______________ to make it up the mountain. When he arrives, the boys are trying to figure out
how to make fire Ralph doesn’t know how, and he stupidly asks if anyone has a ______________. Jack, on
the other, figures out he can use Piggy’s ______________.
The boys discover that the fire was no good because there was only flame, no ______________. A boy
suggests putting a green ______________ on the fire next time. Piggy is outraged and grabs the conch and
tries to speak. He thinks it was stupid to build a fire haphazardly and not to think about building
______________ for the evening. He says that it gets ______________ at night on the ______________.
While Piggy is talking, the boys realize that they have accidentally set the island on fire. Piggy makes Ralph
realize that some of the ______________ boys probably are scared because of the fire.
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Bath Beastie Fire Forest Home Hunters Huts
Jack Kill Littluns Meat Meetings Pig Rain
Ralph Rescued Screamed Secret Ship Simon Sprinter
Submarine Sun Tree Water
Jack is crouched down like a ______________. He is half-naked and trying to hunt a ______________. After
he is unable to kill a pig, he comes out of the dark ______________ and sees Ralph and ______________
building ______________ for shelter. He asks for some ______________, which Ralph tells him is by the
______________.
Ralph is disappointed in the way the ______________, or children, do not help him build the shelters.
Simon suggests telling them off, but Ralph shows his disappointment with ______________. He says they
could have one, and they would decide to do something like build a ______________, but five minutes later
everyone would be off playing and not helping. When ______________ implies that Jack is also guilty of
leaving responsibility, Jack argues that they all need ______________. Ralph antagonises Jack by saying
that Jack has yet to ______________ anything.
Ralph tries to argue that shelters are needed in case of ______________. But also they need shelter to
create a sense of ______________. The children are still afraid of the ______________, or the snake-thing,
and shelter might help calm that fear.
Chapter 3
“Huts on the beach”
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Ralph argues that the most important thing is to get ______________. Jack has a hard time remembering
what that word means. He says that he would prefer to catch a pig first.
While Ralph is telling Jack to make sure his ______________ remember to keep the ______________
going, ______________ realizes where the pig must be hiding from the hot ______________. This angers
Ralph because the way Jack ______________ when he made this discovery made Ralph think Jack saw a
______________.
After they are done talking, they notice that Simon is gone. They assume that he is taking a
______________. But he is not in the bathing pool; rather, he has escaped to a ______________ place in
the forest.
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Apology Blood Castles Dazzle Dead Eric Glasses
Henry Hunt Jack Meat Original Out Piggy
Punches Ralph Roger Sea Ship Simon Smoke
Stones Throat Youngest Transparencies
The chapter begins with three littluns, the generic title for the smaller boys, building sand ______________.
The three boys are Percival, the smallest and ______________ of the three; Henry, the biggest of them; and
Johnny, who is well built.
After ______________ gets bored, he leaves, and Roger follows him. Henry becomes interested in tiny
transparencies, little creatures from the ______________. He starts to become fascinated with controlling
the movement of these scavengers. While Henry’s attention is on the ______________, Roger starts to
throw ______________ at Henry. He misses him on purpose.
About ten yards behind him, Jack calls for ______________. He follows Jack and finds Sam, Eric, Bill, and
Jack putting ______________ paint on their faces. They are going on a ______________ for a pig. A
problem is that Sam and ______________ are neglecting their duty of the fire. This later proves disastrous
because Ralph sees smoke from a ______________, but there is no ______________ for the ship to see
them.
Chapter 4
“Painted faces & Long Hair”
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______________ and his crew return with a ______________ pig. They are chanting, “Kill the pig. Cut her
______________. Spill her ______________ ” Ralph interrupts Jack’s glory from the hunt to yell at him about
letting the fire go ______________ . Piggy also yells at Jack, but this drives Jack to violence. Jack
______________ Piggy in the stomach and smacks his head, which causes Piggy’s ______________ to
break.
Jack offers an ______________ to Ralph for letting the fire go out. And then they begin to start another fire,
but they do so in a different location because ______________ will not move from the site of the
______________ fire.
Later they start to eat the pig. Ralph, who originally wants to resist eating the ______________, eats it. Piggy
brings on more humiliation by asking about his share of the meat. Jack tells him he didn’t hunt. But,
______________ responds that neither did Ralph nor Simon. ______________gives Piggy his share of
meat.
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Beastie Boys Coconut Conch Cry Crybabies Diarrhoea
Fire Ghosts Hair Hunt Jack Meeting Mountain
Piggy Ralph Rules Science Shelters Shorts Simon
Toilet Trees Triangle Water
Ralph paces, thinking about what he is going to say at the ______________. He has decided that the
meeting should not be fun; rather, it should be all business. Ralph has grown disgusted with the way he
has been living. He dislikes flicking the tangled _______________ out of his face, and he dislikes how his
frayed _______________ make him uncomfortable.
Before Ralph begins to talk, he thinks that a chief really needs to be able to think, and the problem is he
cannot think as well as _______________ can. Ralph then calls the meeting. Almost everyone sits in the
triangle except for Piggy who stands outside the _______________ to show his disapproval.
Ralph goes over the things the boys have decided in assemblies and have not gone through with. The first
thing Ralph mentions is how the boys decided to bring water up and put it in the _______________ shells,
but now they don’t. And the boys go down to the river to drink. The second thing he lists is the failure to
build the _______________. He says that all the boys helped on the first one. But only four boys helped on
the second one. And only he and Simon worked on the third one, which is tottery. Then Ralph complains
about how the boys are no longer using the rocks beyond the bathing pool as their lavatory. It was the best
place to have as a _______________ because the tide cleans it up. But now the boys seem to go
Chapter 5
“Beast from water”
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everywhere, which is disgusting because the littluns suffer from diarrhoea. Ralph tells the boys if they are
suffering from _______________ to stay away from the fruit. Then Ralph says that they should die before
they let the _______________ go out again. Ralph’s last command is that they don’t make a fire anywhere
but on the _______________.
The group gets bored and restless with Ralph, but he tries to say one last thing; he tries to talk about the
_______________ and fear that has taken over the island. Once _______________ is done speaking, Jack
stands up and tells the littluns that they started all this stuff about beasts. He says that the littluns are
nothing but a bunch of _______________ and sissies. He says that if there is a beastie, he will
_______________ it. After Jack is done, Piggy tries to convince the boys that there are no such things as
beasties or ghosts and that _______________ can prove it. Then a littlun by the name of Phil stands up and
talks about how he saw something moving in the _______________. As it turns out, it wasn’t a beastie; it
was _______________ going to his secret place in the forest.
Next Percival stands up. He is too timid to give his name. Percival starts to _______________ and the rest
of the littluns join him. Maurice finally tells the group that he thinks the beastie comes out of the
_______________. The boys truly get frightened when Simon speaks up and says that maybe there is a
beastie and maybe it is the _______________ themselves. One of the boys interprets what Simon said as
meaning that there are _______________. The group basically breaks into chaos over the mention of them.
Piggy grabs the _______________ and says that he didn’t vote for ghosts. Jack interrupts him, and Ralph
tries to gain order. But Jack says there is no need for _______________ and that he is tired of Ralph always
taking Piggy’s side.
The meeting breaks up and Piggy tells Ralph that if he gives up, _______________ will want to hurt Ralph
but won’t be able to. But Jack will strike out against the next best thing, and that is Piggy.
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Awake Bad Beastie Boulder Cave Claws Eric
Explosion Fire Fort Glory Jack Man Mock
Parachute Plane Platform Ralph Rock Signal Teacher
Water Waxy Weapon Wings
As Simon, Piggy, and Ralph go to sleep, there is an _______________ in the air about ten miles above
them. Although no one is _______________ to see it, a _______________ is shot down. And afterwards a
man strapped to a _______________ comes down to the island.
Sam and _______________ almost let the fire go out. Once they get it going again, one of them comments
that had it gone out, Ralph would have been _______________. Then they _______________ Ralph and a
previous school _______________. As they are sitting by the fire, Eric sees something and calls Sam’s
attention to it. Once they both see the dead _______________ on a rock, they go running to Ralph. They
tell the boys that they saw the _______________, and they embellish and say they saw the
_______________ and _______________ of the beast. Ralph, Jack, and Piggy decide what to do.
_______________ wants to hunt it right away. Ralph wants to wait until they have the _______________
going. And Piggy wants to live on the _______________. Ralph suggests checking the castle
_______________, where they haven’t been before.
Chapter 6
“Beast from air”
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When they reach it, _______________ goes alone to explore. Jack shortly follows because he couldn’t let
Ralph have all the _______________. Once Jack sees the _______________, he tells Ralph that it would be
great for a _______________. Ralph thinks it is a _______________ idea because there is not much fresh
_______________ there. While Jack explains how to use the _______________ as a _______________,
Ralph realizes that there is no _______________.
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Boys Crazy Dark Dead Fire Frog Game
Home Hunt Jack Mountain Parachute Pig Piggy
Pretend Ralph Robert Roger Saw Scared Ship
Simon Spear Tired Wound
Simon realizes that Ralph is thinking about _______________. He tells Ralph that he knows that he will
make it back all right. Ralph thinks Simon is batty, or _______________, and asks him sarcastically if he has
a _______________ in his pocket.
On their way to the mountain, the boys _______________ for a pig. _______________ gets his first
experience at hunting, and he enjoys it. He is able to get his _______________ into the pig.
_______________ is injured slightly by the boar because he waited too long to put his spear into him.
Simon tells Jack to suck on the _______________ to make it better.
After this the boys get excited and start to _______________ they are hunting a pig. They use
_______________ as the pig. The _______________ get too involved and Robert ends up getting hurt. Jack
and Ralph play it off as if it were nothing but a _______________. Jack says next time they should have a
littlun play the _______________.
Chapter 7
“Shadows & Tall Trees”
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It is getting late, and Ralph still wants to make it to the _______________ to restart the _______________.
Maurice suggests that they should get back to _______________. _______________ volunteers to go alone
to Piggy and tell him that the rest won’t be back until later.
Jack and Ralph keep pushing each other to go up the mountain in the _______________. The rest of the
boys all leave Jack, Ralph, and _______________ by themselves. They are not scared, they say, but rather
_______________.
Jack goes up the mountain alone after Ralph implied that he was too _______________ to do so. He later
comes down saying he _______________ something. Roger scares the two of them when he suggests it is
a _______________. The three of them go up to have a look and they see the _______________ man with
the _______________. The three of them run, leaving their spears on the mountain.