name: nabia farooq subject: english topic: in london with herbert (great expectations by charles...

Name: Nabia Farooq

Subject: English

Topic: In London with Herbert (Great Expectations by Charles Dickens)

Previous knowledge of students: Chapters 1-5

Method of Teaching: Lecture and formative

General Objectives: To develop and enhance reading, listening, analyzing skills of students.

Specific Objectives: To differentiate between that chronological system and today's.

English Syndicate 2

No. of students: T.B.C

Date and Time: 26th July 2011

Duration: 30 minutes

Venue: DASKBZ

Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself." - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

• Nov: “In London with Herbert” and “A Very Unexpected Visitor”

• Dec: “Provis Tells His Story”• Jan: “Provis Goes into Hiding” and “On the River”• Feb: “The Best of Friends”

Time Line of Nov 2011 to Feb 15th 2012

Ch-6: In London with Herbert

Ch-7: A Very Unexpected Visitor

Ch-8: Provis Tells His Story

Ch-9: Provis Goes into Hiding

Ch-10: On the River

Ch-11: The Best of Friends

Action Plan

•To analyze and differentiate between present time prisoners to those in 19th century.

•To compare and evaluate the mode of dressing , transportation and living.

•To analyze and evaluate the life of the rich and the pauper and the discrimination between the two.

Long Term Goals

•Brief Q/A will be asked in order to compare the punishment of the petty crime committed.

•Imagine and formulate the mode of dressing , transportation and living.

•To survey the lifestyle of the present time and then, where the poor were regarded less than dogs.

Short Term Goals

In London Pip met Herbert Pocket who was the same pale, young man whom Pip met at Miss Havisham’s and they had a fight.

Herbert welcomed Pip, he told him that Estella was brought up by Miss Havisham since she was a child, she is trained to hate all men. He also told Pip that Miss Havisham was rich and a proud lady, she had a stepbrother, her father left a very big property for her. She fell in love with a man who deceived her right on the wedding day. Herbert’s father Mr Matthew Pocket was Miss Havisham’s cousin.

Joe called on to Pip in London and gave him Miss Havisham’s message that Estella was in town and would be glad to see Pip.

Synopsis

Aims and Objectives

Develop the four basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Develop comprehension ability.

Develop skills for writing description and character sketches.

Book

Board, list of new words from the text.

Feature Film

Internet based research

Teaching Aids

• Survey – ask students to look at the picture on page 45 and think about what does it present.

• Silent reading – ask students to discover whether their prediction about Miss Havisham is correct or incorrect.

• Predict – how would the picture later on effect on her character.

• Explain the text through reading and meanings of new words.

Methodology

• Familiarization of relevant vocabulary.

• Brainstorming of new words.

• Oral presentation: Character sketches

Activity

• Recap the previous lesson.

• Read the text.• Explain new characters

and new situations.• Involve students to

make their predictions about future events.

• Sentences of any four words.

Oral

1.Detailed Q/A

Q. What do you think Miss Havisham’s aim was when she invited Pip to come and see Estella?

Q. Why was Pip trying to find excuses for not staying at his old home in the village?

2. Reference to context:

a. “Estella is a very difficult person to please, very proud ! Miss Havisham has taught her to hate all men.”

b. “ I am sure Pip would like to hear this news from you. “ So you go up to London and see him.”

c. Exercise from the book page 88.

3. Brief Q/Ans.

Q. What was the real truth when Pip told Joe he wished to walk to the coach stop alone ?Q. Who was Herbert Pocket ?

Written Work

• Reading of the text Ch-6.

• Picture composition, choose any one picture.

• Brief Q/A.

• Activity page Ch-6.

Home Assignment

OUP Progressive English Readers – Grade 3

Great Expectations film (1946) directed by David Lean

Wikipedia.org

Google Images

Sources

"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong." - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations