Frightening nature(The Third Period)
m: what do you mean?
or: for what do you ask me to turn around?
c: you turn! you take your hat off! it's the dress. you have to put on another
one before you meet the children.
m: but i don't have another one. i would have made myself a new dress, but
there wasn't time.
c: well, i'll see that you get some material today, if possible. 1 don't know how
much the mother has told you.
m: the mother has not told me much.
c: you're the twelfth in a long line of governesses, who have come to look after my children since their mother died. i believe that you will do better than last one. she stayed only two hours.
m: what's wrong with the children, sir?
c: there was nothing wrong with the children, only the governess. …
step vi summary and homework
t: in this period we've done some exercises about word study. and we've learned a new grammar item: ellipsis. in doing this, we must remember that…(pointing to the sentences on the bb.) after class, do more exercises about it. and then do ex.5 on page 77. next class i'll ask some students to tell the story in their own words. that's all for today. class is over.
step vii the design of the writing on the blackboard
unit 10 frightening nature
the third period
this is a moving story.
the boy is deeply moved by the story.
grammar: ellipsis
1. upon arrival, my uncle hugged pompy and (?) tried to give him courage.
2. then came a smell of sulphur, and then (?) flames.
*1. upon arrival, my uncle hugged pompy and (he/my uncle) tried to give him courage, *2. then came a smell of sulphur, and then (came) flames.
step viii record after teaching