人教新目标高中英语课件：Integrating skills lreading.ppt

drama director plot theatre actor/actress stage dress/costume setting lights make-up script tragedy comedy pre-reading guy de maupassant (1850-1893) a well-known french novelist and short story writer. his style was direct and simple, with attention to realistic detail. he had a fine use of irony. his works: une vie (a womans life) bel-ami (best friends) my uncle jules boule de suif (ball of fat) 1. how many scenes are there in the play? 2. how many characters are there in the play? 3. who are they? what are the relationships between them? 4. why is the play entitled the necklace? skimming jeanne mathildepierre friends couple scene1 time: place: characters: plot: one afternoon, 1870 a park in paris mathilde, jeanne marthilde tells jeanne about her ten years of hard life. meeting with an old friend 1. why didnt jeanne recognize mathilde at first? 2. what had mathildes life been like in the past ten years? scanning scene2 ten years before, 1860 mathildes home mathilde and pierre loisel an invitation to a ball at the palace time: place: characters: plot: 3. what happened to them? 4. why was mathilde worried? 5. how did she solve this problem? scene3 in the park ten years later, 1870 mathilde, jeanne the story of a lost necklace time: place: characters: plot: 6. what happened on their way home after the ball? 7. what did they do for jeanne? 8. what was the truth? 9. what would mathilde feel on hearing the truth? mathilde pierre jeanne honest, responsible, vain vain, ambitious kind, generous and warm-hearted what do you think of mathilde/ pierre/ jeanne? give us your reasons. dialogue: mathilde returns to the palace where the ball was held to ask about the necklace, and she has a conversation with the waiter/ waitress there. post-reading plot: get the invitation borrow a necklace lose the necklace return the necklace learn the truth retell the story the necklace is not a real diamond one. next month we will pay off our debts. can i borrow some jewellery ? sorry. i didnt recognize you. short pleasure, long lament. 痛快一阵子，悲叹一辈子。 do you agree to use the following sentences to describe mathildes life? why? life is like theatre and theatre is like life. 人生如戏，戏如人生。 it is beyond expectation but within reason. 意料之外，情理之中 the story hasnt been finished yet. can you imagine what will happen to mathilde after she knows the truth? continue the play and act it out. role-play possible endings 1.the loisels decided to go to jeanne and asked for the real diamond necklace. jeanne took pity on them and returned it to them. 2. they decided to go to jeanne and asked for the real diamond necklace. but jeanne refused. 3. mathilde felt very excited and angry. she decided to get back the real diamond necklace but her husband stopped her doing so. 5. jeanne was so moved that she took mathilde home and gave her a lot of money. with the money, mathilde and her husband started a new life and live