90s Comedy Where a Ditzy Boy Starts a New School

Pre –reading

Method K-W-L

Learners complete the chart by using method K-W-L chart.

While - Reading

Each group is given two different texts. Learners read the texts and highlight key words and share opinions about the reading passage in their groups.

After some minutes of reading, teacher distributes the posters and colorful pencils, in order to suggest a mind mapping activity. Learners have to make up a mind map in accordance with the information from the text.

Differentiation : individual support for more struggling learners.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was a very popular and talented English novelist of the Victorian Era. He was born in 1812 in a poor English family. Charles had many brothers and sisters but he preferred reading to playing with children. His father had many books so young Dickens learned to read very early and spent most of his time reading them.

When Charles was 10 years old, his family moved to London where his father got into debt. Soon his father was put into prison that's why Charles had to start working. He worked at a small factory in London, pasting labels on bottles. The boy had to work in dreadful conditions for 2 years.

Then Dickens managed to go to school for some time, however he didn't learn much there. He liked studying at home by his own or with the help of his father. Later Charles worked as a clerk in a lawyer's office and at the age of 25 he wrote his first sketch which was soon published by a magazine.

Then the magazine published nine other sketches all of which had a great success. The sketches became Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Since then Charles Dickens devoted himself entirely to literature. He wrote such famous novels as Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield and Great Expectations.

All of his books are interesting and humorous even if they often describe the hard life of poor people. Charles Dickens died in 1870. He was one of the greatest English novelists whose books are still read all over the world.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was one of the greatest and famous writers in human history. He was born in Stratford-on-Avon, a small town in the middle of England. His father wanted his son to be a well-educated person and William was sent to the local grammar school.

Studying at school the boy actually did not have any free time. But he spent his rare spare hours walking in the forest or watching the river Avon.

Those days there were not a lot of theatres in towns and actors and actresses had to travel moving from one place to another with their shows. Sometimes they visited Stratford-on-Avon. William liked to watch them playing. He got fond of their profession and he decided to become an actor.

He went to London and there he became an actor. At that time he began to write plays too. Shakespeare was at the same time an actor and a playwright. In his works he reflected events of his contemporaries' life. His plays were staged in many theatres, translated into many foreign languages. That made Shakespeare a very popular man.

Most famous of his plays are Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet. They are still popular and you can watch his .plays in almost any country of the world. He produced thirty seven plays at all. He had connections with the best English theatres for about 25 years.

William Shakespeare wrote also a lot of poetry including his unbeaten sonnets. There are numerous songs written with his poems. He is still most often published author of the world and well known among people. We do not know much about his life. We can only guess what kind of man he was analysing the legends and a few documents of the time.

Shakespeare died in 1616, but millions people today still admire his plays.

Physical minute

Post – reading :

When they finish making up a poster, they will stick them to a blackboard and retell the text in turns.

90s Comedy Where a Ditzy Boy Starts a New School

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