This lesson contains 26 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Lesson duration is: 50 min
Items in this lesson
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Lesson 2
The setting
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In today's class you will learn:
1. how to describe the setting of a story
2. which verbs, nouns and adjectives you can use to describe a setting.
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Steps
1. Put the parts of the story in the right order.
2. Read an original part from A Christmas Carol
3. Which words did Dickens use?
4. Describe an illustration
5. With your group, write a paragraph that describes the illustration.
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One Christmas Eve Scrooge is unkind to people who work for him and won't give money to charity. He is also rude to his nephew who invites him over to spend Christmas with them.
The Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge his past Christmases. Scrooge loved money more than Belle.
Scrooge is visited by Marley, his business partner who died years ago.
The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge the Cratchit family and Tiny Tim. The ghost then takes him to his nephew's Christmas party, to which he had been invited, but refused.
Finally, The Ghost of Christmas Future terrifies Scrooge by showing him visions of his own death
The ghosts' journey through time teaches Scrooge the mistakes he has made in his life. When he wakes up on Christmas morning, he is buys a turkey for the Cratchit family. He spends Christmas with his nephew.
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Discuss with your classmate:
Do you know all the words? If not, what do you think it means? How do you know this?
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Look at your illustration
1. One by one say a sentence that describes the illustration.
2. Each sentence should have new information.
3. Continue till you can't add new information.
4. Together, make a list of words (nouns, adjectives and verbs) that you can use to describe your illustration.
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Now...
You are going to write a paragraph about the illustration together!
Use the words that you have written down.
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Write a topic sentence
Fold your paper in such a way so that your group members can't read it and hand it over to the person sitting next to you.
Example: The streets were dark and empty.
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Write a sentence with evidence.
Fold your paper in such a way so that your group members can't read it and hand it over to the person sitting next to you.
Example: The streetlights were broken and everybody was inside.
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Write a sentence with an analysis
Fold your paper in such a way so that your group members can't read it and hand it over to the person sitting next to you.
Example: Even the cats were scared and hid under the bushes.
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Write a concluding sentence.
Example: It was not a good time to be outside.
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Open your papers and read the paragraphs.
Choose the best one.
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Correct it and write it under the illustration.
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Share your paragraph
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Share your paragraph
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Share your paragraph
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Share your paragraph
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Share your paragraph
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Share your paragraph
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Share your paragraph
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What have you learned?
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What would you like to know more about or practice more?
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Lesson 3
The characters
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Today you are going to
- learn about the characters in A Christmas Carol.