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The Outline of the Lesson

The Subject:      Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles (home reading

                            lesson).

The Objectives:   to check the knowledge of the vocabulary items, relating to the

                              episode, to practise the usage of the pronouns (subject, object,

                              possessive) and possessive adjectives; to develop speaking, reading,

                              listening, writing skills; to develop imagination, memory, attention,

                              to foster love for reading books, to develop artistic skills and to

                              broaden the outlook.

Audio-visual aids: a tape-recorder, a crossword, cards with pronouns, pictures.

 The Procedure of the Lesson

Preliminaries: Good morning, friends. I am pleased to see you! How are you today? (How are you keeping? How are you getting on?)

T – S1   - Hi, Julia! Nice to meet you!

• How are you keeping?
• I am on the top of the world today, thanks.
• Have a nice day!

Work in Pairs:  Greet your friend, wish him or her a nice day.

Warm up:  You all know today we’ve having a home-reading lesson. I believe you all   

                    like books, but what is reading for you?

   Use the prompts on the board to continue the sentence; work in a chain-fashion.

                                    essential

  Reading   …….    important             because               ..…….

 Books    necessary            the matter is

    Useful

 I hope you all have your favourite books. Think about one and recommend it to your friend. Use the phrases:

• Don’t miss the chance …..
• I strongly recommend you …..
• You shouldn’t miss the chance …..

  Pair Work

  T-S2    -   I wonder, do you like reading books?

•    Well, it’s one of my hobbies. 

   S3 - S4   - You know, yesterday I finished reading “Robin Crusoe”.

• Sounds interesting!
• The book is really great! Don’t miss the chance to read it.

Checking the hometask:

1. Speaking: (Based on the biography of Arthur Conan Doyle)

  Well, as for me, I’m keen on detective stories. What book would you advise me to read? Who is the author of it? Sounds like he is American, is it really so?

• Arthur C.D. was the only son in his family.
• He didn’t study well at school.
• As a boy he liked boats and sailing.
• He had no time for family.                  (Make the statements correct)

 Conducting the interview (based on Ex.29 p.21)

    I see you really know much about this person. So let’s pretend we’ve invited Arthur Conan Doyle to our class and we have a chance to ask him questions. – Alex, don’t you mind being Arthur Conan Doyle? And you, Tania, pretend you are a reporter.

    Conduct the interview with this famous person. All the rest, you are to participate too. So let’s begin.

• Thank you, that was great!

  Singing a song “Books”. Now let’s have some fun singing a song.

2. Episode 1 (p.22-23)

 Vocabulary Revision: it’s high time to pass over to the detective story, written by this really talented writer. Do you remember its title? Who are the main characters of the episode? How did the story start? Why did Dr. Mortimer come to see Holmes? So let’s revise the vocabulary items, doing the crossword and see who is in need of Sherlock Holmes’ protection. Here are the copies with a crossword, take your time and find out who needs help.

   Exchange your copies, let’s check:  - say the word and spell it. So, who needs protection?  (Sir Henry). Good job, thank you!

 Arranging the events in the story:

  Now combine into 2 groups, take the pictures and put them in the correct order. Write the number 1-8 on each of the pictures.

Listen to the tape and check if you’ve done it right.

Answer the questions:

• Who kidnapped a girl? (Sir Hugo)
• Who did the girl die of? (fear)
• Who killed Sir Charles? (the hound)
• Why did he need help?

Role – play (Episode 1). Take roles to act out the episode (p.22)

 What are your impressions of the acting? (It was to my taste, I enjoyed the atmosphere. It made a great impression on me,  … role was interesting and realistic)

3. A game ( Revising Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives)

  Combine into two groups and place the pronouns according to their group (subject pronouns, object pronouns), (possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns). They have all mixed up in my bag. Help them to be in their places. Take your time.

Subject Pronouns        Object Pronouns       Possessive Adjectives      Possessive Pronouns

    I  me my mine

  you you your yours

  he  him his his

  she her her hers

             it it its    -

             we  us our ours

            you you your yours

            they them their theirs

 Read the pronouns and check if everything is correct. When do we use each group?

 Use the pronouns and possessive adjectives to replace the words in bold with the correct pronoun. Read, translate, and identify the pronoun. Work in chain fashion. (p. 23 Ex. 6)

Summing up and Setting the hometask:

  Well, you’ll worked well today. I hope you understand that without books our life will be empty and boring. So read  books and enjoy them, because “Except for a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book”.

   For the next time read and translate Episode 2 (p. 42) and write out all unknown words into your vocabularies. Ex. 1, 3 p. 43 (in written)

Assessment

  The lesson is coming to the end. Thank you for your fruitful cooperation and good job. Your marks are … The lesson is over! Bye!