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This week's lesson is about the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens. Regarded as one of the greatest writers in the history of English literature. Level Intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level B1 and above)

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IO348T Charles Dickens

This week's lesson is about the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens. Regarded as one of the greatest writers in the history of English literature. Level Intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level B1 and above)

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Inside Out

e-lesson Week starting: 26th May 2008

1. Charles Dickens
This week’s lesson is about the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens, widely
regarded as one of the greatest writers in the history of English literature.

Level
Intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level B1 and above)

How to use the lesson


1. Ask your students if they have heard of Charles Dickens, and if so, what they know
about him. Who do they consider to be the greatest writers in the history of their own
country, and why?

2. Give your students five to ten minutes to read through Worksheet A, encouraging
them to look up new vocabulary. (Note, however, that some words that might be new
are not in the glossary because they form part of Exercise 1.) Tell them they are going
to answer a series of questions on the text, but that they shouldn’t write anything
down at this stage.

3. When the time is up, give each student a copy of Worksheets B and C, then divide
the class into pairs and ask students to work together. In Exercise 1 they have to find
the words or expressions to match the definitions, and in Exercise 2 they should
answer the true/false/doesn’t say questions.

4. Check answers in open class.

5. Keeping students in their pairs, ask them to turn over their copies of Worksheet A
or to temporarily hand them back to you. Move on to Exercise 3 on Worksheet C, in
which the students have to look at the eight excerpts from the text, decide whether
they have been written correctly, then ‘bet’ anything from 10 to 50 points on their
guesses. In the first column after the statement they should write C (correct) or I
(incorrect). In the second column they have to write the number of points they are
willing to bet on their answer (10 points if they are forced to guess, going up to 50 if
they are very confident about the answer). You could also ask your students to try to
correct the sentences they have classed as incorrect.
6. After the pairs have given their answers, it’s time to score. Each pair calls out their
answer and how many points they have bet. If they have answered correctly, students
enter their points in the final column (points won). If they have answered incorrectly,
they should enter their points in the third column (points lost). At the end, students
subtract the total of the third column from the total of the fourth column to give the
total number of points they have won. The pair with the most points wins.

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Answers

Exercise 1
1. benevolent 2. orphan 3. polish 4. filthy 5. instalment 6. pickpocket 7. novel
8. masterpiece 9. label 10. support 11. gang 12. debtor 13. awful
14. social conscience 15. vivid

Exercise 2
1. F 2. T 3. D 4. F 5. F 6. F

Exercise 3
1. Correct.
2. Incorrect. ‘ … he had to support his family by working ten hours a day …’
3. Correct.
4. Incorrect. ‘ … people had to wait patiently for the next instalment …’
5. Incorrect. ‘All his stories make the reader desperate to know what happens next
…’
6. Incorrect. ‘His novels provide a vivid description of life...’
7. Incorrect. ‘ … his special talent for storytelling soon became obvious.’
8. Correct.

2. Related Websites
Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bleakhouse/animation.shtml
An amusing narrated animation about the life of Charles Dickens from the BBC
website. There is also a link to a short biographical text. Challenging for intermediate
level.

http://charlesdickenspage.com/
An interesting website on the life and work of Dickens, including a map of
Dickensian London and a glossary of the nineteenth-century words and expressions
that appear in his works. Challenging for intermediate level.

http://www.filmeducation.org/olivertwist/index.html
A website especially for teachers on the theme of Oliver Twist. Includes a feature on
‘Oliver’s London’ and profiles of the major characters in the story. Challenging for
intermediate level.

This page has been downloaded from www.insideout.net.


It is photocopiable, but all copies must be complete pages. Copyright © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008.

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