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Hello everyone.

Welcome to our next lesson of Oliver Twist.

Now, after our last lesson, things are looking up for Oliver.

For the first time Oliver's life seems to be going quite well.

Mr. Brownlow is now taking Oliver home.

Now a very kind of gentle woman called Mrs. Bedwin takes care of Oliver as he recovers from his sickness.

He's now surrounded by people who love him.

What could possibly go wrong? Well, it turns out that Oliver has not escaped Fagin's gang.

In fact, there is a plan to kidnap Oliver.

Let's begin.

For today's lesson you will need an exercise book or paper and a pen.

If you do not have this equipment, press the pause button on your video now.

Go and collect this equipment and then we will begin our lesson.

Let's begin with a recap from our last lesson.

How does Mr. Brownlow treat Oliver? You have four options.

Option one, Mr. Brownlow assumes that Oliver is innocent and takes care of him.

Option two, Mr. Brownlow assumes Oliver is innocent and takes advantage of him.

Option three, Mr. Brownlow assumes that Oliver is a criminal and judges him or option four, Mr. Brownlow realises that Oliver is a poor orphan and judges him.

Press the pause button on your video now and tell the screen the right answer.

I will now tell you the right answer, which is of course option one.

Mr. Brownlow assumes that Oliver is innocent and takes care of him.

Mr. Brownlow takes care of Oliver through two main ways.

First of all, Mr. Brownlow defends Oliver's innocence in court.

And secondly, Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver back home with him to go and take care of him.

Well done if you got that right.

Now, some of you might've chosen one of the other options.

You may have chosen option two, Mr. Brownlow assumes Oliver is innocent and takes advantage of him.

Now this option two does not describe Mr. Brownlow's behaviour.

I would suggest that option two describes Fagin's behaviour.

Fagin realises that Oliver is innocent and vulnerable and naive and decides to take advantage of him by pressurising Oliver to join his gang of pickpockets.

Some of you may have chosen option three, Mr. Brownlow assumes that Oliver is a criminal and judges him.

I would suggest that option three does not describe Mr. Brownlow's attitude towards Oliver.

Option three actually describes the attitude of the workhouse board towards Oliver.

Remember the workhouse board treat Oliver as if he is a criminal, just because he asked for more gruel.

Now some of you might have also chosen option four, Mr. Brownlow realises that Oliver is a poor orphan and judges him.

Once again, this does not describe Mr. Brownlow's attitude towards Oliver.

I would suggest that Mr. Brownlow does realise that Oliver is a poor orphan but on realising this Mr. Brownlow makes the decision not to judge Oliver, but to care for Oliver.

Well done again if you got that right.

Let's begin this lesson with a summary of our plan.

First of all, we're going to revise the idea that Oliver is a victim.

We will then introduce Bill and Nancy two of the most important characters in our novel.

And after that we will read our extract.

So let's begin.

Let's first of all revise this idea of a victim.

This was a word I introduced to you in one of our previous lessons.

Now, a victim is a person who is harmed by an unfortunate event or another person through no fault of their own.

And, as you all know, Oliver Twist is a victim in our novel.

When Oliver was born in the workhouse, he was a victim.

Remember his mother died just after he was born and Oliver struggled to breathe and nearly died.

Oliver was also a victim when he went to the workhouse, remember Oliver and the other boys were nearly starved through her diet of gruel.

And Oliver was thrown out of a workhouse because he asked for more.

Oliver was also a victim when he went to the Sowerberry's house.

And in Sowerberry's house, he was bullied by Noah and locked in a cellar by Mrs. Sowerberry.

And then our last lesson we saw that Oliver was a victim when he was wrongfully accused in court of stealing Mr. Brownlow's handkerchief.

As you can see, Oliver has been a victim the whole way through our novel.

Now here's the question for you.

Will Oliver be a victim again? We will come back to this question at the end of this lesson.

I now need to introduce you to two of our most important characters in our novel, Bill and Nancy.

Here is a picture of Bill with his dog Bullseye.

Bill's full name is Bill Sikes.

Bill is a criminal who works with Fagin, and Bill is also a violence robber.

As you're going to see, Bill is a very frightening evil man.

And here is a picture of Nancy.

Now Nancy is Bill's girlfriend.

And Nancy seems to care for Oliver quite a lot.

Nancy met Oliver when Oliver was part of Fagin's gang and for that short period of time.

Now in the extract that we're about to read, Fagin received some terrible news about Oliver.

Fagin learns that Oliver has run away from the gang.

Fagin learns that Oliver has left the gang and worries that this orphan might tell the police about their criminal activities.

Now Fagin's very worried about this.

Fagin knows that both he and the gang members could possibly go to jail or be hanged by the police.

Fagin thus comes up with a plan in order to stop Oliver from going to the police.

Fagin persuades Nancy and Bill Sikes to organise Oliver's kidnapping.

Okay, let's now test your understanding of these ideas, true or false.

Bill Sikes and Nancy are brother and sister.

Fagin wants to kidnap Oliver in order to take him to the workhouse.

Nancy seems to care for Oliver.

Fagin is worried that Oliver will tell the police about his gang.

Bill has a good relationship with Oliver.

Press the pause button on your video now.

Go through each of these sentences and tell the screen whether they are true or false.

I will now tell you the right answers.

Bill Sikes and Nancy are not brother and sister.

In fact, Bill Sikes and Nancy are boyfriend and girlfriend.

Fagin does not want to kidnap Oliver in order to take him to the workhouse.

Fagin wants to kidnap Oliver in order to stop him from going to the police and telling them about the gang's criminal activity.

This is true, Nancy does seem to care for Oliver.

And D is also true, Fagin is worried that Oliver will tell the police about his gang.

E is false, Bill does not have a good relationship with Oliver.

In fact, Bill has not yet met Oliver, but he will meet Oliver in this extract as you will see.

Well done if you got all of those right.

Okay, let's now move on to our extract reading.

I first of all need to give you some background information about this extract.

Now in this extract, Mr. Brownlow has given Oliver a parcel full of books and told Oliver to go and deliver them to a house in London.

Oliver's walking along.

He's got a smile on his face, he's happy.

He's thinking to himself.

Life has never been so good before, everything's great.

But then Oliver walks down the wrong street and he walks into a bit of a dodgy area.

In fact, he walks into an area which is close to Fagin's gang.

A mysterious lady then appears from the shadows who claims to be Oliver's sister.

Oh, and close to her is a very large evil looking man.

Oh, I wonder who they might be.

Let's find out what happens.

Meanwhile, Oliver Twist was on his way to the book stall when he got into Clark and Well, he accidentally turned down a by street, which was not exactly in his way but not discovering his mistake until he got halfway down it and knowing it must leads in the right direction.

He did not think it worthwhile to turn back and so marched on as quickly as he could with the books under his arm.

The by street was dark and unpleasant looking, but Oliver was walking along thinking how happy and content that he felt when he was startled by a young woman, screaming out very loud.

"Oh, my dear brother." And he had hardly looked up to see what the matter was when he was stopped by having a pair of arms throwing tight around his neck.

"Don't", cried Oliver struggling.

"Let go of me, who is it? Why are you stopping me for." The only reply to this was a great number of loud lamentations from a young woman who had embraced him and who had a little basket and a street door key in her hand.

"Oh, my gracious," said a young woman.

"I found him.

Oliver, oh you naughty boy to make me suffer such distress in your account.

Come home.

Dear, come home.

I found him, thank goodness.

Heavens, I found him." With these incoherent exclamations, the young woman burst into another fits of crying and got dreadfully hysterical.

"Oh no, nevermind," said a young woman grasping Oliver's hand.

"I'm better now, come home directly you cruel boy, come." This display encouraged the crowd of onlookers.

"What's the matter ma'am?," inquired one of the women.

"Oh ma'am," replied the young woman.

"He ran away near a month ago from his parents who are hard working and respectable people and went and joined a set of thieves and bad characters and almost broke his mother's heart." "Young wretch," said one woman.

"Go home, do you little brute," said the other.

"I am not," replied Oliver greatly alarmed.

"I don't know her.

I haven't any sister or mother either, I am an orphan.

I live at Pentonville with Mr. Brownlow." "Only hear him, how he braves it out," cried a young woman.

"Why, it's Nancy!" exclaimed Oliver who now we saw her face for the first time and started back in irrepressible astonishment.

"You see, he knows me," cried Nancy appealing to the bystanders.

"He can't help himself, make him come home.

There's good people or he'll kill his dear mother and father and break my heart." "What the devil's this?" said a man bursting out of a beer shop with a white dog at his heels.

"Young Oliver come home to your poor mother.

You young dog, come home directly." "I don't belong to them.

I don't know them, help, help," cried Oliver, struggling in the man's powerful grasp.

"Help?" repeated the man.

"Yes, I'll help you young rascal.

What books are these? You've been stealing them? Huh, have you? Give them here." With these words, the man tore the volumes from his grasp and struck him on the head.

"That's right," said a looker-on from a garret window.

"That's the only way of bringing him to his senses, it will do him good," said the two women.

"And he shall have it too," rejoined the man administering another blow and seizing Oliver by the collar.

"Come on, you young villain, Bullseye, mind a boy, mind him." So as you know, the man who's just been talking is Bill Sikes.

This is the man who now grabs Oliver and begins to drag him back to Fagin's gang.

And that's another picture of Bill Sikes there to remind you what he looks like.

Let's continue to read.

Weak with recent illness, stupefied by the blows and the suddenness of the attack, terrified by the fierce growling of the dog and the brutality of the man, overpowered by the conviction of the bystanders that he really was the hardened wretch he was described to be, what could our one poor child's do? Darkness had set in.

It was a low neighbourhood.

No help was near, resistance was useless.

In another moment, he was dragged into a labyrinth of dark narrow courts and was forced along them at a pace which rendered the few cries he dared to give utterance to unintelligible.

It was a little moment, indeed.

Whether they were intelligible or no for there was nobody to care for them.

Had they ever been so plain? Oliver is a victim again.

Nancy appeared and pretended to be his sister.

"Oh, you need to come home.

Why did you run away? Why did you join the gang? Your parents really need you.

They're waiting for you to come home.

Come this way, come this way." Oliver's like, "I don't know you.

You're not my sister.

I don't have a sister, I'm an orphan." And then a crowd appears but they all take Nancy's side.

"You need to go, you need to go.

How dare you, you horrible boy." And Oliver says, "I don't know this woman.

I'm just an orphan.

I live with Mr. Brownlow at Pentonville.

Why don't you believe me?" And then the very, very scary character arrives, Bill Bikes.

Bill grabs Oliver, he takes a look at some of Oliver's books.

He hits him over the head and drags him all through the dark shadowy streets back to Fagin's gang.

Oliver has been kidnapped.

Right, let's now test your understanding of our extract.

Question one, why did Fagin ask Nancy and Bill to kidnap Oliver? I'll give you a clue.

Who were they worried Oliver was going to go to? Of course, they're worried that Oliver will go to the police.

Fagin asked Nancy and Bill to kidnap Oliver because he was worried that Oliver would tell the police about the gang's criminal activities.

Question two, who did Nancy pretend to be in order to kidnap Oliver? I'll give you another clue.

Nancy pretended to be a member of Oliver's family.

Of course, Nancy pretended to be Oliver's sister.

Nancy pretended to be Oliver's sister in order to kidnap him.

Question three, in fact that's the end of our questions.

Let's now test your memory of this extract once again, through a fill in the gaps exercise.

Here is a paragraph to summarising what has just happened in that extract.

But as you will see, there are some key words which are missing.

Use these key words in the table below the paragraph to complete the paragraph.

Press the pause button on your video now and complete this paragraph in your book or on your page.

Off you go.

I will now show you the right answers.

Fagin orders Nancy and Bill to the kidnap Oliver to prevent this orphan from telling the police about the gang's criminal activities.

Nancy finds Oliver walking through London on his way to deliver a parcel for Mr. Brownlow.

Nancy pretends to be Oliver's older sister and attempts to take him with her.

Oliver's protests are ignored by Nancy and a gathering crowd.

Bill then arrives and drags all over back to Fagin.

Well done if you've got full marks there.

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And that brings us to the end of our lesson.

Well done for all of your amazing work today, you've blown me away.

Your brain is getting bigger and bigger and bigger with all the things you're learning.

In our next lesson, we're going to learn more about the novel's scariest character Bill Sikes.

This character scares the living daylights out of me.

We'll analyse them more in our next lesson.

I'll see you next time.

And before you leave, make sure you complete the quiz on all the learning you've done today.