Teaching English using Literature

Plano de Aula

Objetivo
Oportunizar o aluno a conhecer os clássicos da Literatura Norte-Americana através do Ensino de Língua Inglesa, estimulando-o ao questionamento, à crítica e à produção.

Conteúdo
Livro: “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” Chapter II – The Fence
Text Comprehension;
Past Tense;
Interrogative words

Metodologia
Talking about the author;
Video to introduce the story characters;
Presentation of the story;
Comprehension to check the understanding of the story;
Personal questions to express the students’ own opinion;

1- About the autor

· His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
· He was American.
· He lived in Hannibal, Missouri (USA).
· From 1853 to 1854, he was a journalist.
· In 1856 he was a pilot for the boats on the Mississippi River.
· In that time they used steamboats to cross the rivers.


Why Mark Twain?

· To know how deep the river was, a man threw a rope in the water. There were marks on the rope at every 3 feet. Then, the man looked at the mark on the rope. He saw the depth of the water. Sometimes he shouted to the pilot “Mark Twain”. This meant “Second mark”. Samuel heard this shout many times. When he wrote his stories, he took these words for his name- Mark Twain.
· In 1870 he got married to Olivia Langdon. They had two daughters.
· He died in 1910.

2- Book: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

This book is one of the books written by Mark Twain and Tom Sawyer is one of the characters created by the author. The book is divided in 15 chapters and each chapter is a Tom Sawyer and his friends’ adventure. Today we're going to work with chapter 2. Before we begin to work with it, let’s know a little about Tom Sawyer.

WHO IS TOM SAWYER?
( Watch the video and answer)

According to the video, how do you describe Tom Sawyer?
- How old is Tom Sawyer?
- What things does he like to do?

Now, let's read the story.

http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?catid=59809&docid=154691

Story comprehension

a- What’s the day of the week in the story?
b- What did Aunt Polly ask Tom to do?
c- Did he like? Why not?
d- Why was Tom worried about his friends?
e- What were Tom’s friend’s names?
f- What did they do when they saw Tom painting the fence?
g- Did Tom let them to paint the fence?
h- What did they have to do to paint the fence?
i- What did Tom get from his friends?
j- What was Aunt Polly’s reaction when she saw the fence painted?

Now, let's share ideas?

a- Do you think Tom is a good example for children? Why?
b- What do you think about punishment? Do you think punishment is a good way for parents to educate their children?
c- In your opinion what should parents do to educate their children better?