Teaching plan

Teaching aims:

1.       To read the play of Home Alone, mainly focusing on Act One and Act Two.

2.       To learn to apply the basic reading skill: how to read a play.

3.       To learn some useful expressions in this paly.

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Revision

Talk about your own growing pains.

Step2 Presentation

(1)    Watch a part of the movie Home Alone, and answer the questions:

1.       What are the people in the movie doing?

2.       What is the main character’s name?

Keys:

1.       They are quarreling with each other.

2.       Daniel.

(2)    Reading strategy: reading a play

1.       A play contains five elements: character, time, place, event, feeling/circumstance.

2.       A play is in the form of a dialogue.

3.       A play is spoken directly, even if they are grammatically in correct.

4.       A play should be read out loud with emotions, not read silently.

(3)    Read the play by yourself and answer the questions.

1.       Who are the main characters in the play?

2.       Why do the parents get angry?

3.       What really happened to the dog, Spot?

Keys:

1.       Eric, Daniel, Mum, Dad.

2.       The room was a mess.

3.       Spot was ill.

True or false:

1. The boys do not expect their parents to come back so early.           T

2. Spot, the dog, looks great.                                     F

3. Daniel’s parents still think of him as an adult.                      F

4. Eric does not want to explain to their parents.                      F

5. The boys didn’t clean the house because they went to the clinic.       T

6. The mother thinks the father should be stricter with Daniel.           F

(4) Read Act One in different roles, and then fill the form.

Read Act Two in different roles, and then fill the form.

(5) Answer the following questions:

   1. What are the boys doing when their parents come home?

2. How does the room look when the parents arrive home?

3. Why are the parents angrier with Daniel than with Eric?

4. What is the emergency that Eric wants to tell his parents about?

5. What does the father want to do with Daniel?

Keys:

1.       They are playing with a soccer.

2.       The room is in a complete mess

3.       Because they left Daniel in charge.

4.       Spot was ill and they had to take the dog to the clinic.

5.       He wants to punish Daniel.

.Step3 Consolidation

   Look through the play, and then complete the missing words.

Step4 Homework

1. Finish C1, C2 on Page 24

2. Try to write an ending to Act Two after class in the same group that performed in the class.