Lesson plan

Teacher: Venera ROTH-GROSS

School: Colegiul National “A. Muresanu” Bistrita
Date: 11th December 2017
Class: XI A
Length of the lesson: 50 minutes
Topic: David Copperfield – by Charles Dickens
Aims:
 To familiarize the students with some aspects of the work of Charles
Dickens
 To make sts aware of one of the main themes in Dickens’ work: the tough
life of children
 To practice silent reading
 To enable students to answer comprehension questions
 To enable students to analyze a literary fragment making use of questions
 To enable students to discuss the aspect of education in Victorian times
and nowadays

Materials: worksheets from “Fields of Vision – Literature in the English Language” by

D. Delaney, C. Ward, C. Rho Fiorina

Assumptions: The students may have heard of the novel by Dickens, but only a few of
them may have read it

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Procedure:
Time: Activity: Interaction: Aids:
5’ - checking homework T - Sts

5’ - Lead in – T asks sts to think about T - Sts

childhood memories, especially
about being afraid or intimidated
by an adult (link to a recent case
on TV and Internet)
2’ - T elicits Sts to read the T - Sts worksheets
introductory info about the author
and the novel
- T asks Sts to read the fragment “I
Fall into Disgrace” (F2)
5’ - Sts read the text silently
8’ - Comprehension questions – the T - Sts worksheets
whole class discuss the 7
questions with the teacher
7’ - Analysis - – the whole class T - Sts worksheets
discuss the 6 questions with the
teacher
- T asks Sts to read the fragment
“The One Thing Needful” (F9)
5’ - Sts read the fragment silently
8’ - Comprehension questions – the T - Sts worksheets
whole class discuss the 5
questions with the teacher
5’ - Analysis – the whole class discuss T - Sts worksheets
the 7 questions with the teacher

 Homework – to write a short text about what their perfect school would be
like, including the prompts on F9.