Charles Dickens` biography. Reading. Speaking

Lesson title

Charles Dickens` biography. Reading. Speaking

Learning objectives that this lesson is contributing to (link to the Subject programme)

C. 7.2 Organize and present information clearly to others;
L. Understand with limited support the main points of extended talk on a range and curricular topics;
S. 7.4 Respond with limited flexibility at both sentence and discourse level to unexpected comments on a range of general and curricular topic;
R. 7.2 Understand independently specific information and detail in short, simple texts on a limited range of general and curricular topics;
W. 7.1 Plan, write edit proofread work at text level with some support on a growing range of general and curricular topics;
U.E.7.5 Use questions which include a variety of different tense on a range of familiar general and curricular topics;

Lesson objectives

All learners will be able to:
Learn vocabulary for describing important periods during lifetime;
Most learners will be able to:
Practice using the past simple to talk about what happened in the author`s life;
Some learners will be able to:
Talk about the author`s life;

Assessment criteria

Answer questions clearly using simple past tense.

Language objectives

Guess the meaning of new words

Values links

A theatrical adaption of Charles Dickens “Great Expectations” put on at the Vaudelle Theatre in London in 2013

Cross – curricular links

Literature, Art, Kazakh literature

Previous learning

End –of-term- test

Plan

Planned
timing

Planned activities

Resources

Start
0-4 min

Warm up.
Books closed. Write character on the board. Ask: What is a character? Elicit the answer: a person represented in a novel, film or play. Elicit examples of well-known characters from Kazakh literature, e.g. figures from folklore such as Aldar Kose and Zhalmauyz Kempir, and twentieth – century characters such as Berdibek Sokpakbaev`s Kozha.

5-10 min

Speaking:
Ask students to open their books at p56. Refer students to the photos and three questions:
-Is this a picture of a modern woman? How do you know?
-What sort of person do you think she is?
-What feelings is she expressing?
elicit ideas about the character shown in the photographs.

“Eyes Open – 3” for Kazakhstan by Ben Golstein and Ceri Jones with Eoin Higgins. p56

11-13 min

Explain that the character is called Miss Havicham and that she appears in a novel called “Great Expectations”

“Eyes Open – 3” for Kazakhstan by Ben Golstein and Ceri Jones with Eoin Higgins. p56

14-16 min

Ask students to open their books at p57. Refer students to the photo and questions:
-What do you know about Charles Dickens?
-Have you ever read his novels?
-What his novels did you read?

“Eyes Open – 3” for Kazakhstan by Ben Golstein and Ceri Jones with
Eoin Higgins. p57

17 –20 min

Reading:
Ask students to read the biography independently.

“Eyes Open – 3” for Kazakhstan by Ben Golstein and Ceri Jones with
Eoin Higgins. p57
the portrait of Ch. Di Dickens on the board.

21 –23 min

Ask students to complete the fact file.

“Eyes Open – 3” for Kazakhstan by Ben Golstein and Ceri Jones with
Eoin Higgins. p57

24 -25 min

Put students into pairs and give them a couple of minutes to compare their answers in pairs before to check them with the class.

“Eyes Open – 3” for Kazakhstan by Ben Golstein and Ceri Jones with
Eoin Higgins. p57

26 –30 min

Speaking:
Ask students some questions on the text they have read:
-When was Ch. Dickens born?
-Where was he born?
-Where did he spent a lot of his life?
-Why did he have to go to work when he was a child?
-Where did hi have to work when he was 12?
-What job did he choose later?
-When did he write his first story?
-When was his first book published?
-What was remarkable in 1833 in the life of Dickens?
-What was his wife`s name?
-How many children did they have?
-When was their first baby born?
-How many novels did Dickens write?
-What are the most famous his novels?

“Eyes Open – 3” for Kazakhstan by Ben Golstein and Ceri Jones with
Eoin Higgins. p57

31-35 min

Ask students to make up a plan of the text that will help them to retell the text.

“Eyes Open – 3” for Kazakhstan by Ben Golstein and Ceri Jones with
Eoin Higgins. p57

36-37 min

Ask strong students to present their plans of the text.

“Eyes Open – 3” for Kazakhstan by Ben Golstein and Ceri Jones with
Eoin Higgins. p57

End
38-40 min

Plenary.
Ask students:
-What was easy for you?
-What was interesting for you?
-Would you like to learn more about Ch.Dickens?
Homework: Charles Dickens` biography. -Ex1 p57 (SB) – good reading

Additional information

Differentiation

Assessment

Health and safety check

The stronger students present their plans of the text for the class as a example.

Though observation in individual and pair work and giving comments.

Сhange of activities during the lesson. Students are allowed to choose a couple to work independently, changing the location in the classroom.