Unit: 14 “Humans and Monsters”(based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Film by Kenneth Brannagh Level: 1st Bachillerato
Sessions | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
General objective | Use comprehension strategies that allow the interference of unknown meanings through context | Reflect on the functioning of the FL in comm, in order to improve their own productions and understand others in diff situations | Use the FL both orally and written in order to communicate fluently and correctly through the use of adequate strategies | Understand and interpret critically oral, written and visual texts emmited in habitual situations of communication | Reflect on their own learning process using autonomous resources | Understand and interpret critically oral, written and visual texts emmited in habitual situations of communication |
Specific objective | Create and perform a dialogue from the video | Do a role-play | Discuss on literature and cinema | Summarise and interpret inf from the text to express some arguments to defend an idea | Write a biography of one of the characters and discuss the topics raised in the novel | Read authentic Eng texts Write a correct piece of writing |
Warm up ss-t | Brainstorming: Romanticism, Frankenstein, films. Do a quiz.- Show photos of several films to motivate Ss | Check homework Eliciting: Ss predict what they think is going to happen now to the characters they already know: V Frank, the monster, H Clerval. | Check homework Eliciting: T reads out a summary of the narrative to date. He makes deliberate mistakes. Ss shout out when they hear a mistake & correct | Eliciting: Ss are given a map and they have to trace arrows indicating the itinerary followed by Frank in the novel | Brainstorming: Ss have to shout out their favourite and less favourite scenes in the book | Eliciting: Discussion related to the topics that have been raised in the book: ethics and technology in the novel and nowadays |
Presentation t-ss | Film: 5m. Opening scenes: Walton is on an expedition to the N Pole and writes letters to his sister Margaret about the difficult conditions of the ship. One day a man is taken on board: Frankestein, who tells him the story of his life | Film: 5m (Frank’s little brother is murdered by the monster, but Justine, who is an innocent friend, is condemned and hanged) | Film: 5m (the monster asks Frank to make a female for him) Vision is off ans Ss just listen | Film: 5m (Dr. Frank gets married, his wife will be killed by the monster) The sound of the film is off | Film: 5m. End of the film. (Frank is very ill, he revises his life and feelings. He dies and the monster shows up. Finally it will disappears) Ss discuss whether or not they have enjoyed the ending | FINAL TASK Rewrite a biography of one of the characters |
Practice S FB | Ss watch the video again: Wh-viewing: (Skimming) T/F sentences After-viewing: (Scanning) answering more specific Qs | Wh-viewing: (Skimming) Gap filling After-viewing: (Scanning) Jumbled text | Wh-list: Ss write down the images they guess are being shown. Then they watch the film but now with vision on, they check and compare | Wh-viewing: (Skimming) Ss write in pairs a dialogue for the scenes they are watching and then check with original After-viewing: (Scanning) some Ss role play a diff dialogue with sound off | Reading: Ss have to order the life of Frankenstein’s creator chronologically. | Vocabulary activitiesComplete the activities which will enable the final task |
Production Freer ss-ss ss | Pair-work: Video (sound off) Ss watch the scenes where Frank meets his friend Clerval, who came to study at univ Dialogue creation & perform | Pairwork. Role-play. Ss choose 2 characters and write a dialogue showing their personalities and their role in the narrative: Frank-Clerval, Justine-judge | Group-work: Discussion: Ss compare the book and the film, and express the positive and negative things. Cinema or literature: what do you prefer? | Group-work: Discussion: Guilty or innocent? Ss revise sentences describing main characters and then they decide and defend who is less guilty, Frank or monster | Writing: Ss have to write a short review of the most imp events of Mary Shelley’s life | Writing: Rewrite a biography of one of the characters |
HW | Reading from Walton’s letters to Chapter 7 Activities: Rein & Ampl | Reading Ch8-14 Activities | Reading Ch15-21 Activities: reinf & ampl | Reading Ch 22-end Write a brief summary of the story | Briefly, rewrite the end of the book |