Урок на тему "Відгук про книгу. А. Крісті. "Немейський лев".

 

 

 

_{Англійська мова}

 

_{Урок домашнього читання}

_{за оповіданням Агати Крісті}

_{«Немейський лев»}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Учитель: Новікова С. А.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home Reading

Agatha Christie. The Labours of Hercules

 The Nemean Lion

 

 

Aims:

• to teach the pupils to give a book review (with focus on  story elements);
• to extend and practice the vocabulary on the topic “Crime and criminals”;
• to develop the pupils’ socio-cultural competence,  imagination, thinking and learning skills;
• to implant interest in English literature. 

 

Aids:

PC, story map, pictures, photos, hands-out 

Time: 45’

Form: 10

Procedure

 

1.Organizing.

 

2. Motivation. Setting the tasks.

 

3. Preparation

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary review

Match the words with their definitions:

 

A witness	an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person
A detective	taking a person away by means of fear, force
To prosecute	To inquire into or study in order to find out facts or information
Kidnapping	anyone who has committed a crime
To investigate	to hold another person or group responsible for a fault
To blame	that which proves or disproves  something
To solve	one who knows something  by personal presence
To make inquiries	to find the answer or explanation for; clear up; explain
An evidence	To ask about
A series	an action which is against the law
A crime	a group or a number of related or similar things, events
A criminal	To start civil or criminal proceedings against

 

 

 

Contents review

(Computer testing)

 

4. Presentation

 

Story Elements Map

• Title
• Author
• Setting
• Plot summery
• Characters
• Personal opinion

 

5. Practice

 

• The Title (reference to Greek mythology)

 

• The Author

 

Life Profile

 Read the text and answer the questions:

Agatha Christie

https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ch-Co/Christie-Agatha.html

Agatha Christie was the best-selling mystery writer of all time. She wrote ninety-three books and seventeen plays, including the longest-running play of modern-day theater,  The Mousetrap.  She is the only mystery writer to have created two important detectives as characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

 Childhood and family. The daughter of an American father and a British mother, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born at Torquay in the United Kingdom , 1890. Agatha described herself as having had a very happy childhood. She was educated at home, with later studies in Paris, France. Her mother believed children should not learn to read until they were eight, but Agatha taught herself to read at four. Her father taught her mathematics via story problems, and the family played question-and-answer games much like today's Trivial Pursuit. She had piano lessons, which she liked, and dance lessons, which she did not. When she could not learn French through formal instruction, the family hired a young woman who spoke nothing but French to be her nanny and companion. She grew up in a family environment  full of stories—from the dramatic, suspenseful tales her mother told her at bedtime to her elder sister's frightening creations. She began creating her own fictions, too, with the help of her nanny, her dolls, and her pets. During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse. In 1914 she was married to Colonel Archibald Christie, with whom she had one daughter.

 Early characters. In Christie's first book,  The Mysterious Affair at Styles  (1920), she introduced one of her two best-known detectives, Hercule Poirot.  He is reasoned and unemotional while solving mysteries. Poirot places his faith in his brain's "little grey cells".

A mysterious breakdown.  The year 1926 was an important one for Christie. It saw the publication of her first hugely successful novel,  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,  in which the narrator (the character in whose voice the story is told) is the murderer. It was also a year of personal tragedy. Christie's mother died in 1926, and Christie discovered that her husband was in love with another woman. She suffered a mental breakdown and on December 6 she disappeared from her home. Ten days later the police found her in a hotel in Harrogate, England, where she had been staying the whole time, registered under the name of the woman with whom her husband was having his affair. Christie claimed to have had amnesia. She divorced her first husband two years later.

 In 1930 Christie married Sir Max Mallowan, a leading British archaeologist. She often accompanied him on his expeditions in Iraq and Syria and placed some of her novels in those countries.

Major works.  In 1930 Christie also produced what is believed by many to be her best-written novel,  Murder at the Vicarage.  This mystery also marked the first appearance of Jane Marple, who became one of Christie's favorite sleuths.

 In the mid-1930s Christie began to produce novels that bore her special manner  -   Murder in the Calais Coach  (1934), And Then There Were None  (1939) , Easy to Kill  (1939), A Murder Is Announced  (1950)  . In them she arranged a situation that seemed unrealistic, and then she placed characters, who acted for the most realistic of reasons, into this framework. Also interesting in these books is Christie's philosophy that it is quite acceptable to kill a killer, particularly one whose crime is especially horrible.

 Christie wrote several works in addition to her fiction, including seventeen plays. Her play The Mousetrap  opened in London in 1952 and was a huge success, playing there for over thirty years. In addition, many of Christie's mysteries were made into movies.

 In 1971 Christie was named a Dame of the British Empire—a title given by the English king or queen in honor of a person's extraordinary service to the country. Five years later Christie died on January 12, 1976.

Vocabulary: environment – оточення, suspenseful – захоплюючий, reasoned – обґрунтований, логічний, faith – віра , narrator – оповідач , mental breakdown – психічний розлад , sleuth – детектив, framework – обставини, умови, extraordinary – незвичайний.

 

1. When and where was Agatha Christie born?
2. What do you know about her childhood?
3. Who and what helped her to create her own fiction?
4. What did Agatha Christie do during World War I?
5. What was her first book? What character did she introduce in it?
6. How old was Agatha Christie when she married Colonel Archibald Christie?
7. What caused Agatha’s mental breakdown in 1926?
8. What did her second husband do?
9. What’s Christie’s best written novel?
10. Which of her plays was a huge success?
11. What title was Christie named in 1971?

 

• The Setting

 

 

The place

Pupils’ report on Kensington Gardens

 

The time

Pupil’s report on life in Britain in the 1940s

 

• The Plot summery

 

Making a step-by-step summary:

teacher’s example (chapter I);

as a class (chapter II);

in groups (chapters III-V).

 

6. Self-evaluation

 

Evaluate your retelling-a story-skills as for different story elements:

	Title	Author	Setting	Plot   summery	Characters	Personal  opinion
It’s easy for me to speak about it
It’s not so difficult but  need some practice
I need much more practice to be good at it

 

 

7. Home assignment

 

Fill in the character analysis form

 

Appearance (face, body, clothes)
Personality
He/She says…
He/She does...
Others say about him/her…
The author says about him/her…
How does he/she change or grow during the story?
Conclusions
Appearance (face, body, clothes)
Personality
He/She says…
He/She does...
Others say about him/her…
The author says about him/her…
How does he/she change or grow during the story?
Conclusions