Unit 13 The Mystery of the Moonstone [Reading]
unit 13 the mystery of the moonstonestep 1 pre-reading:
1.what do you already know about the story the moonstone?
something about the moonstone
2.how many main characters in the novel? who are they?
characters :
rachel verinder : a beautiful and wealthy young woman, who lives with her mother and several servants in a fine house in england.
godfrey: a successful bachelor with many lady admirers, who asks rachel to marry him .
franklin blake: rachel’s childhood friend.
dr. candy: a local doctor who has a quarrel with franklin about a prescription.
the indians they follow the moonstone around the world wait for an opportunity to take it back .
rosanna: rachel’s maid who seems fond of franklin.
sergeant cuff: a policeman.
step 2 fast reading
make the students try summing up the main ideas of some paragraphs, then show them some suggested ones.
para 1 : sth about the moonstone
para 2: some information about rachel
para 3 : the tension and strange things caused by the moonstone
para 4 : sth happened at rachel’s birthday party
para 5 : the miss of the moonstone and sergeant cuff’s discovering
para 6 : the 1st suspect
para 7 : the 2nd suspect
para 8 : the 3rd suspect
para 9 : the 4th suspect
para 10: sergeant’s vital clue
analyse the structure of the passage:
part 1 ---- paragraph 1 : how rachel gets the moonstone as her present.
part 2 ---- paragraph 2: rachel’s happy life before her eighteenth birthday party.
part 3 ---- para 3-4: what happens at the party.
part 4 ---- para 5: the moonstone is missing and sergeant cuff is asked to investigate the case.
part 5 ---- para 6-9: how sergeant cuff analyse the case
part 6 ---- para.10 the last paragraph: sergeant cuff finds a vital clue of the theft ---- a smear in the wet paint on the door.
step 3 careful reading
1.who gave rachel the moonstone ?why did he give it to her ?where did her uncle get the moonstone ?
rachel’s uncle gave her the moonstone .he wanted to pass on his bad fortune to her in an act of revenge .he stole the diamond from the temple in india.
2.what happened to the diamond after the birthday party ?
it was gone .
sergeant cuff thought many people might have stolen the diamond .who do you think stole the diamond ?
decide true or false:
1.the man who stole the moonstone left it to his sister’s daughter because he loved her very much. f
2.godfrey was under suspicion for stealing the diamond because rachel refused his marriage . 3.sergeant cuff has one vital clue_ the stained garment . f
4.franklin’s being love with rachel made dr candy angry for dr candy loved her deeply. f