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Set induction
(5 minutes)















1. Teacher conducts an activity called the
Poison Box.
2. Teacher asks the pupils to pass the box
to their friends until the music stops.
3. Teacher asks the pupil who holds the box
when the music stops to come to the
teachers desk.
4. Teacher asks the pupil to come and pick
a card containing pictures of different kind
of monsters in movies.
5. Teacher asks several questions to the
selected pupil regarding the monster.
Eg: Is the monster scary? what does it do?

6. Teacher wears a frankenstein mask and
tells the students that they would be
learning about Frankenstein.



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Questioning and
answering

Inquiry


Poison box
Music
Speaker






Flash cards



Frankensteins
mask

To arouse pupils curiosity towards the
topic.

To capture the pupils interest towards
the lesson.

To activate the pupils prior knowledge
on the topic of the lesson.
Pre-reading
(10 minutes)

















1. Teacher tells students that they are going to
read an extract from a novel. He asks them
to look at the picture of their tasksheets and
discustudents what they think it shows.
2. Students report and discustudents their
answers and the Teacher asks them if they
know any books/films/magazines based on
stories about monsters.
3. The students most probably will mention
Frankenstein but if they do not, the Teacher
briefly informs them about M. Shelleys novel
(who Frankenstein is, who created him and
why) without revealing too much about the
story.

4. Teacher asks students to read and listen at
the same time to the first paragraph of the
text and find out who is talking, who he is
talking to and what he asks for.
5. Students report their answers and get
feedback from each other and the Teacher.

6. Teacher asks students to guess what
happens next in the story. Students answers
are written on the blackboard.





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Students
tasksheeet, audio
CD



Blackboard



To arouse students curiosity and activate
students background knowledge on the
subject.













To initiate students to the content of the
story and re-create the novel atmosphere
through listening to the CD for better s
involvement.


To encourage students to form
expectations on the text and anticipate
subject matter.
While-reading
(20 minutes)

















1. Teacher asks students to read the text
quickly (time allowance 3 minutes) to
check their predictions in the previous
activity. Students report their answers
and are also encouraged to mention
some of the actual events that are
described in the extract.

2. Teacher asks students to work in pairs to
carry out activity A of their tasksheets.
Teacher monitors and provides pairs with
help as necessary. Pairs report their
answers and get feedback from other
pairs and the Teacher.

3. Students are asked to think about and
discuss briefly in class Frankensteins
and the monsters feelings. After
students report their answers, they are
asked to carry out in pairs activity B of
their tasksheets.







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To encourage students to confirm, modify,
reject their previously made hypotheses
and practise in skim and timed reading.





To practise scanning for specific
information. To encourage co-operative
learning.




To give students practice in intensive
reading. To engage students in a real-life
like task (exchange of information), to
prompt them to paraphrase and avoid
copying directly from the text.






4. Pairs are encouraged to share work load
(one pair member could deal with
Frankensteins emotions and the other
one with the monsters) and then
exchange information so that both
members have both table columns filled
in.
5. Teacher monitors and advises during
activity preparation urging students to
use their own words as much as possible
to fill in the table. Pairs report their
answers and get feedback from other
pairs and the Teacher.





To integrate speaking skills and encourage
co-operative learning.



Post-reading
(20 minutes)






1. Teacher asks students about their own
feelings towards Frankenstein and the
monster he created. Students discuss
their emotions towards the two heroes
and explain why they feel this way.






Whole class discussions












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To encourage deeper s involvement,
identification and interaction with the text
by asking them to exprestudents personal
opinions and feelings about the two
protagonists. To integrate speaking skills.

















2. Teacher asks students to carry out
activity C of their tasksheets giving the
necessary instructions. Students work in
groups of 4 and try to guess how the
story continues by using the clues given
in the activity. Students are allowed
about 7'-8' to complete their stories. T
monitors and advises during group
activity preparation.
3. After groups report their stories in
clastudents, they listen to how the story
continues through the audio CD and
check whether their own versions
approached what really happened.
in the following sessions.











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To integrate writing (rhetorical structure of
a story) and listening skills and to
encourage students to use their
imagination. To develop students
negotiation and decision-making skills
through collaborative work.



Closure
(5 minutes)







1. If time allows, students are asked to fill in
in pairs vocabulary activity D of their
tasksheets. Pairs report their answers
and get feedback from the Teacher and
the other pairs.
2. As homework, students are
astudentsigned to carry out activity E of
their tasksheets. T promises to reveal the
end of the story



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To engage students in vocabulary
expansion and development.



To integrate writing skills, and to encourage
students to use their imagination. To
arouse students curiosity concerning the
final outcome of the novel.