Module 3 Literature-Period 1 Introduction 外研版选修7

Module 3 Literature

Period 1

Module 3 Literature
Introduction

Introduction - Title
? Discussion:
1. Do you like literature? 2. Do you like Chinese novels or novels from other countries? 3. Can you name some famous novelists and their works?

Introduction – Activity 1
?Match the definition with the correct words. ?1. a child whose parents are dead orphan ?2. a Victorian home for poor people workhouse ?3. to happen take place ?4. to be extremely hungry and weak starve ?5. a very long story novel ?6. a person who writes novels novelist

Introduction – Activity 1
? Look at the picture and try to use these words to describe the picture. novelist take place orphan

workhouse

novel

starve

For example: The story takes place in the workhouse.

Introduction - Passage
photo
a ______from ________ scene Oliver Twist Charles Dickens (England)

? Fill in the form with information you get from the passage.

Novelist

When was the Victorian period? the middle of the 19th century

Where did the Many of his novel take place in story take place? ________. London
Who is Oliver?
a poor _______ orphan who lives in a workhouse ____________

Introduction – Activity 2
Work out the questions in pairs:
? What does Oliver look like?
?What ?What ?What

do you think his background is ? Why is in the workhouse? do you think he is saying to the man? do you think the other boys are thinking?

?Which
?What

words describe the man? Friendly and kind or cruel and unkind?
do you think happens next?

Homework -- Discussion