Unit15 The Necklace

Reading The necklace

Goals:

1. To get to learn more information about drama

2. To have a better understanding of the outline of the drama

3. To learn some basic reading skills

4. To develop students’ imagination and creativity by continuing the play

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1: Warming ups

Task 1: Get students to discuss the following two questions

1. What kind of plays do you like best? (funny plays, serious plays or sad plays) Why?

2. Can you tell me some famous playwrights in China or abroad?

(Caoyu, Laoshe, Shakespeare, Charlie Chaplin, Maupassant, etc)

Task 2: Competition To see who is the fastest to match the writers and their works and countries

Caoyu The Thunder Storm

Britain Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

France Maupassant The Million Note

China Mark Twain The Necklace

America Laoshe Tea House

Step 2: Reading

Task 1: Pre-reading

Ask one student to do the daily report

Topic: Maupassant ----- a great French writer

Task 2: Skimming

Ask students to listen to the passage and then find out how many scenes there are and how many characters there are in the play

(The answers: 3 scenes; 3 characters)

Task 3: Scanning

Ask students to read each scene fast by themselves and sum up the main idea of each scene

Suggested answers:

Scene 1: Mathilde met with Jeanne in a park in Paris

Scene 2: The Pierres talked about their going to the ball in the home

Scene3: Mathilde continued to tell Jeanne what had happened to her and why she had changed a lot

Task 4: Careful reading

Group work: ask students to discuss each scene and find more information about the play by filling in a table

Task 5: Post-reading

1. Let students discuss in groups and give a description of the characters in the play using adjective

Suggested answers:

2. Summary

Let students discuss the following questions to further understand the story

1) What can Mathilde do next?

2) What can Mathilde say to her husband when she gets home?

3) What can Jeanne do next?

4) What do you think of the ending?

Step 3: Acting

Task 1: Ask students to discuss in groups to continue the story and write a scene in mind in which Mathilde comes back home to tell her husband about her meeting with Jeanne

Task 2: Choose several groups to act out their play in front of the class

(Remind students of using some stage properties and stage directions while acting out the play

Step 4: Homework

1. Written

1) Exercise book

2) Write an ending which is based on the story

2. Oral

Read the passage for 3 times and find out some good sentences to recite