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Books. Instructor : Nguyen Ngoc Vu Presenter : Dang Phuong Dung Le Thi Thu Hien. READING ACTIVITIES. Warm-up activity Before you read While you read After you read. Match the book covers with the words. Novel Dictionary Picture book Textbook. Warm-up activity.
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Books Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu Presenter: Dang Phuong Dung Le Thi Thu Hien
READING ACTIVITIES • Warm-up activity • Before you read • While you read • After you read
Match the book covers with the words. Novel Dictionary Picture book Textbook Warm-up activity
Dictionary Novel Textbook Picture book
Before you read Teach new language Introduction about Jane Austen and the novel Emma. Guiding question
New language Gossip (n): is a story about the personal life of some people. It’s may be not true. Gossip (v): to talk about other people's private lives gossipy (adj) Ex: Van is a talkative girl. She likes making gossip about people around her.
Be engaged (to someone): agree to become someone’s wife/husband Ex: Miss Nhu was engaged to Tuan yesterday. They will get married next month.
Disposed (to do something): to be ready to do something. Ex: The businessman is disposed to set off for his business trip.
Reveal sth (to sb) : to make someone know about something. Ex: keep secret. Don’t reveal it to any one
16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817 English novelist the most widely read and most beloved writer in English literature Jane Austen
A novel by Jane Austen, first published in December, 1815 Main character: Emma is a beautiful, high-spirited, intellectual, and 'slightly' spoiled woman of almost 21 Emma has been the subject of many adaptations The novel Emma
Guiding questions you’re going to read a passage from a novel Emma by Jane Austen. Read it and answer the following question: What is Jane Austen’s style?
While you read Complete the following sentences. Use words from the text. • Marriages and deaths cause gossip among the villagers in Emma because they are both…. and ……happenings. • The fact that “marries” and “dies” are put closely to each other while the tone is calm brings us a kind of…. • All Mr. Elton could tell us about his fiancee was her….and….
4. The phrase “ by some means or other” makes us doubtful about the… of the information about Miss Hawkins’s perfection. 5. Austen’s writing gives the impression that she agrees with the gossip but her ….implies the local people were mistaken.
Answer key 1. infrequent - important 2. shock 3.Christain name – favorite composer’s name 4. reliability 5. tone
After you read Discuss with your partner these questions. 1. Have you ever read Jane Austen or any other woman writer? What is special about them? 2.What kinds of books do you often read? Do you prefer to read for the information or for entertainment?
Some useful language My favorite author is… The author that/who I really like is… I like reading… I prefer to…for….