ENG2611 Assignment 2 Due 25 June 2024

Assignment 2

Due date: [To be added]

• This assignment is based on Study Units 2 and 3 of Tutorial Letter 501

• The assignment consists of TWO sections

• You need to answer ALL questions

Section A

Before attempting to address Section A you should read Unit 2 in
TL501 (Pages 45-77).

Te xt A

Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.
This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from
London during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an
old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway
station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a
very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs. Macready and three servants.
(Their names were Ivy, Margaret and Betty, but they do not come into the story
much.) He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair, which grew over most