IF I WERE YOU

1 MEANINGS (COPY FROM YOUR READER)

2 EXTRACTS
1 a The speaker tells about his life because he thinks he has a listener in the intruder .
b He tells the intruder his age and that he lives alone in the cottage .
c The story he said about his life , the details proves that he is not telling the truth .

2 a He had broken into the cottage as he had an idea that Gerrard lived alone .
b Gerrard wants to know the nature of the crime the intruder had committed .
c The intruder’s specialty is jewel robbery .

3 ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

1 The intruder enters Gerrard’s cottage after having gathered information about him . He is also similar
in build to Gerrard .

2 It is not the truth Gerrard knew that the Intruder had devious plans against him and he did not want
the Intruder t know his true identity .
The other sentences that tells us that he is not speaking the truth are
“I said it with the bullets and got away unfortunately …… I’m expecting trouble . My bag’s packed ready
to clear off . There it is .”

3 Gerrard is a play wright . We know this from the introduction of the play . Also towards the end he
calls to say .
“I can’t let you have the props in time for rehearsal ….”
These allusions are made to his professions as a play wright .

4 The Intruder predicts that Gerrard will stop being smart as he plans to kill him .

5 Gerrard makes him to believe that he ( Gerrard ) himself is a fugitive after having committed a heinous
crime and that if the Intruder takes his identity he will be caught and processed as Gerrard .

6 The Intruder will be hanged as he will be discovered living under the identity of Gerrard , The speaker
cannot be hanged again after the truth is out as , technically , he has already been hanged .

7 The Intruder belongs to Aylesbury Gerrard knows this time when the former says “It brought me
Aylesbury that’s where I saw you in the car . Two other people saw you and started to talk .

8 Gerrard gets the better of the Intruder by leading him to the door . The Intruder believes that this door
leads to the garage but it actually opened to cupboard , Gerrard shuts the Intruder inside this .