Lesson 10: The elevator; reading

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Today

1. Recap article

2. Reading 

3. Planner

4. Homework

AIM: I can read an English text and describe the plot & setting

+ summarize this text.

see lesson 9 in drive for text  & handout

Article

1. Open the article of last class  (clothing style)

2. Check: adverbs, adjectives, linking words

The elevator - William Sleator

Martin, twelve-years-old, has moved to an apartment building with an old, small elevator. He wants to avoid it, but he lives on the seventeenth floor and doesn’t want to look like a coward. One morning an unusual lady rides the elevator with him, increasing his sense of dread.

1. Read the story.

 While reading, mark important parts of the story that you may need later on. Keep track of vocabulary you don’t know by marking those words and looking them up.

see drive lesson 10

Plot

De plot is een verhaallijn. 

Een simpele weergave van de plot is: karakter + doel + conflict = plot. 

Neem bijvoorbeeld de film The Lion King. Je karakter (bijvoorbeeld Simba) wil koning worden (doel), maar in de weg staat zijn oom Scar (conflict) en dat is je plot.

2. Talk about the plot of the story.

THINK - PAIR - SHARE

- What characters are there? Describe them.

-What is the goal?

-What conflicts are there?

-What do these conflicts have in common?

Setting

Setting is een term uit de narratologie waarmee aangeduid wordt waar, wanneer en onder welke omstandigheden de gebeurtenissen in een verhaal plaatsvinden. Met de setting wordt dus de achtergrond, het decor, beschreven waartegen het verhaal zich zal afspelen.

3. Talk about the setting

Pair + In the group:

- Where does the action in the story take place?

- The bigger picture: what environment/culture/country?

- Story-time: how long does the entire story take?

-Discourse-time: what parts in the story take up a lot of time? Why would that be?

4. Summarize

- What is the story about: write a summary in your own words.

- What is your opinion about the story?

- What would you change?

- What will happen next?

Share your summary

In groups of 4; Share your summary. 

- What are similarities/differences?

Practise vocabulary

Open the link, practise on Study GO

studygo.com

www.bbc.co.uk