The Omega Files – 1 Short Stories - English Center

1 #709020 (OUP) OBL1: Activity Worksheets Omega Files Short StoriesJennifer BassettIntroductionThe storyWhen they were young, Jude and Hawker worked for a man called Arla, at the European Department of Intelligence (EDI). They tell three Stories about cases they worked File 349: London, England. Jude and Hawker go to London to find a man called Johnny Cook who has a strange story about a drug company which they want to investigate. They find Cook in club one night, and bring him back to their hotel for breakfast. He tells them that he has a story about the Tyler Drug Company which he is selling to a newspaper for 100,000 Euros.

2 The company is taking young people off the streets and using them to test drugs. He knows because it happened to him. He and some other homeless young people were invited to stay in a comfortable house, but one of the girls got very ill, and Cook overheard some men in white coats talking about her they had clearly been testing some drugs, called Coplas, on her. That night Cook escaped, taking some papers from the house with him. Jude and Hawker return to their office in Brussels and tell the story to their boss, Arla. But Arla tells them that Cook is dead. He fell into the River Thames in the middle of the night.

3 And five years later the Tyler Drug Company began to sell a new drug called Coplastin. Was this the same drug? Omega File 451: Loch Ness, Scotland. Arla shows Jude and Hawker a photograph taken at Loch Ness in Scotland. It s a very bad photograph, but they can see something big and grey coming out of some water. It seems to have arms and a head. Arla tells them that it s killing animals around the loch, and he wants them to go and investigate. They arrive at the loch and talk to a farmer who has lost sheep during the night. He tells them about the killing, and also that there is a strange army laboratory in the hills above the loch.

4 Jude and Hawker get a boat, and start to spend a lot of time going up and down the loch. They find other sheep that have been killed, but they don t manage to see what has killed them. One night they meet some army people also in a boat. The army tell them that there is no monster and that they should go home. But every night more and more sheep die. Jude and Hawker get six old sheep and leave them near the water, watching carefully every night. One night something comes out of the water and attacks Hawker; Jude shoots it and it dies. The army people arrive in their boat and together they look at the monster.

5 When Hawker and Jude explain that they are from the EDI, the army men explain that the monster is their new fighter, genetically engineered to kill but they are having problems with File 522: Gal pagos, Ecuador. The EDI is getting a lot of emails from the Gal pagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. They say that visitors to the planet are going to arrive on Isabela Island, in the Gal pagos. Arla wants Hawker and Jude to go and investigate. They fly to the Gal pagos and take a boat to Isabela Island. The people of the island are leaving in a panic; they say that a spaceship landed in an active volcano on the island ten days before.

6 Hawker and Jude climb the volcano to investigate and meet an Australian who is waiting at the top for the visitors to come out of the volcano. But they then receive a radio message that the volcano is going to erupt. They escape to their boat and as they are leaving the island the volcano does erupt and the Australian is probably killed. Hawker thinks he saw a spaceship fly out of the volcano just before the eruption but Jude doesn t believe ungraded summary is for the teacher s use only and should not be given to students. OXFORDUNIVERSITYPRESSOBW1 Activity 979/13/07 10:16:06 AM#709020 (OUP) OBL1: Activity Worksheets OXFORDUNIVERSITYPRESSSTAGE1 The Omega Files Short StoriesPre-reading activityMatch the Stories with the events To the teacherThese are the titles of the Stories in this book.

7 Look at the pictures and match them with the Stories . 1 OmegaFile349:London,England 2 OmegaFile451:LochNess,Scotland 3 OmegaFile522:Gal pagos,EcuadorStorytitle:..Storytitle:..S torytitle:..Storytitle:..Storytitle:..St orytitle:..Storytitle:..Two hours later Volcano Alcedo erupted. There s no monster in this loch, said the tall man. Don t these people ever go to bed? said found a taxi with a young driver, and got giant tortoises came slowly past the of people are leaving Isabela. They are held it up, in front of the tall man s : To pre-teach some of the vocabulary and to help students understand the contexts of the : 10 15 minutesOrganization: Give one copy of the worksheet to each student or each group of students.

8 Check through the picture captions and check any unknown meanings with the class. Alternatively, the students could look up any difficult words in their dictionaries. Ask the students to write the titles of the Stories in the spaces under the pictures. When everyone has finished, discuss the answers with the class. Give no indication as to whether the students have guessed correctly or not. Key: a; Omega File 451: Loch Ness, Scotland, b; Omega File 522: Gal pagos, Ecuador, c; Omega File 349: London, England, d; Omega File 522: Gal pagos, Ecuador, e; Omega File 522: Gal pagos, Ecuador, f; Omega File 349: London, England, g; Omega File 451: Loch Ness, Activity 989/13/07 10:16:44 AM#709020 (OUP) OBL1: Activity Worksheets OXFORDUNIVERSITYPRESSPHOTOCOPIABLESTAGE1 The Omega Files Short StoriesWhile reading activityWhat next?

9 To the teacherOmega FiLe 349: London, englandWhat happens after page 7? Tick the tbelieveJohnny , FiLe 451: Loch Ness, ScotlandWhat happens after page 19? Tick the FiLe 522: gal pagos, ecuadorWhat happens after page 35? Tick the : At the end of the page : To give the students the opportunity to predict where the story is : 5 10 minutes (for each story)Organization: Give each student, or group of students, a copy of the worksheet for the story that they are reading. Tell them that they must decide what is going to happen in the story. They can write in their own predictions in the blank spaces at the end of the table. Activity 999/13/07 10:16:45 AM#709020 (OUP) OBL1: Activity Worksheets OXFORDUNIVERSITYPRESSSTAGE1 The Omega Files Short StoriesAfter reading activityCharacter crosswords To the teacherMake character crosswords for these characters.

10 1 = : 8 , 9 : ? 3 0 = ; 7 A 9 0 ? * 9 : - : / D 6 9 0 B 3 4 > R 0 , 7 9 , 8 0 3 0 4 > L , ? A 4 , 9 2 , A 0 3 , = / 5 : - > ? : 3 A B 6 0 = , 9 / 5 @ / 0 Aim: To revise some of the characters in the : 15 20 minutesOrganization: Give each student, or group of students, a copy of the worksheet. Ask them to add as much information as possible in the spaces around the Activity 1009/13/07 10:16:49 AM