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

Mathilde Pierre Jeanne Plot: get the invitation ? borrow a necklace ? lose the necklace ? return the necklace ? learn the truth * * * 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 Woman’s 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 Mathilde Pierre 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 Why didn’t Jeanne recognize Mathilde at first? What had Mathilde’s life been like in the past ten years? Scanning Scene2 Ten years before, 1860 Mathilde’s 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? 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 Retell The Story ??????????????????????? The