Season 8 Episode 4: Listen

1.    What is the idea the Doctor has about a creature that hides?

2.    Describe Clara’s first date with the other teacher. Did it go well?

3.    What does Clara discover when she gets home?

4.    BONUS: Does the Doctor have an idea about being alone? What is it?

5.    Describe the dream that the Doctor talks about. Have you had a dream like that one? Has Clara had that dream?

6.    What does the Doctor need Clara in order to see? Where do they do next?

7.    Where does the TARDIS take them?

8.    What other things does this hiding creature do?

9.    What happens after Clara gets under the bed with ‘Rupert’?

10. What does Clara decide to do after the trip back in time with Rupert?

11. What does the ‘End of the Universe’ look like?

12.  What/who does the Doctor want to see?

13. IS there anything there in the silent darkness? What is the reason that the Doctor had the dream?

Doctor Who Season 8 Episode 2 “Into the Dalek”

Vocabulary:

Patient: (noun) someone/something getting care in a hospital or clinic

Miniaturize: (verb) to make miniature/very,very small

Regularly: (adverb) in a regular way or style

Moral: (adjective) good, understanding right and wrong

1.    Describe the woman the Doctor saves.

2.    Who/what is the patient?

3.    BONUS: Where is Clara, ‘the impossible girl’? Describe the male character she met at the beginning of this episode.

4.    BONUS: What does the Doctor come to Clara to ask? Who does he need her to fight?

5.    Describe the Dalek aliens (how they look) on the inside and the outside.

6.    Why must the Doctor and Clara become miniaturized? BONUS: Why do they have to breathe regularly during the process?

7.    BONUS: Why does the Dalek say it changed to become good/moral?

8.    How does the episode end?

Doctor Who Season 8 Episode 1 “Deep Breath”

Vocabulary:

Tyrannosaurus Rex: (noun) the large meat eating (carnivourous) dinosaur with short arms and large, muscular legs

Renewed: (verb made new again

Form: (noun) shape or outside appearance/looks

invite: (verb) to ask someone/something to come to a party, meeting, or event

Abandon: (verb) to leave something/someone alone

1.    How does the episode begin?

2.    Why are the green and brown alien excited to see the blue telephone box labeled ‘Police’?

3.    What is strange about the doctor?

4.    How does the dinosaur feel in the city environment?

5.    Why does Clara feel unhappy about the change in the doctor’s form?

6.    Why is the doctor very upset about what happened to the dinosaur?

7.    What murder does the doctor decide to solve?

8.    How does Clara or ‘The Impossible Girl’ get invited to lunch?

9.    What is strange about the other people in the restaurant?

10.  What is the purpose of the restaurant for the man in the wheel chair and the other things on the space ship?

11. How does Clara behave when she is abandoned by the doctor, is she brave?

12. BONUS Question: Why did the robot murder the dinosaur?

13. Does the doctor come to save Clara?

14.  Is the doctor different?

15. BONUS: What does the ‘new’ doctor tell Clara they are not? What does the old doctor ask her to do on the cellphone?

16. Does Clara choose to travel on with the ‘new’ doctor?