Unit One The expensive fantasy of Lord Williams
1. Pre-class activity 15m.
1.1 Dictation 5m
The writer learned from his grandparents that you are either honest or you are not; there is no middle ground. Honesty is a moral standard inside of you that you use to judge the quality of your behavior. Honesty is in short supply. You must demand it of yourself. A good test of honesty involves three key principles: first, standing firmly for your convictions when confronted with pressure; second, always giving other people the praise they merit; third, being honest and open about who you are. Self-respect and a clear conscience help make relationships with others stronger.
1.2 clearing up the way 10m
please refer to Encarta “Scotland Yard”
2. Classroom practice
oral practice : how can we win over our pretentious attitudes?
2.1 Expected sentence structures 5m
2.1.1 …As -----------à (although)
example: Cold as it was, they went out.
2.1.2…Now that…-----à (seeing that / since)
example: Now that you are older, you should know better.
2.2 vocabulary blacklist (for teacher only)
Injection deputy estate auction inherit supervise justify corridor disguise
Twist utter switch
2.3 Question-based text analysis 75m
Note: Students are encouraged to read the article partially according to given assignments.
General background of the story:
Where and who?
Tomintoul, Scotland; Lord Williams, or Tony.
Paras. 1- 2
What did he do?
He provided such a large injection of cash into the village that he single-handedly brought the community back to life.
Para. 3
What is the truth?
Mr. Williams was not a lord at all but a government employee living out a fantasy that he was a Scottish noble and paying for it by stealing funds from Scotland Yard.
Para. 4
What was the result for Mr. Williams?
He was brought into court and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.
Para. 5
Para 1-5
What are the responses from the villagers to Mr. Williams?
Response 1:
At least some villagers are sticking by him.
Para. 6
Response 2:
It’s hard to understand how a clever person like him could mislead people like that. What he did benefited the village. A lot of the properties were beautifully restored.
Para. 7
Response 3:
Everyone wondered where the money was coming from. Why was he spending it in a little place in the mountains? He wouldn’t have gotten it back in 100 years.
Para. 8
paras 6-8
What are the major crimes that Mr. Williams committed?
Mr. Williams stole more than £8 million over eight years.
Para. 9
How did Mr. Williams spend the money? It went to create one more British lord. How?
Para. 10
Mr. Williams spent the money buying an estate and noble titles, to become the Lord of Chirnside.
Para. 11
Mr Williams sunk his dishonest gains into this village with fine stone cottages, central area of green grass, green rows of hedges.
Para. 12
Mr. Williams spent the money buying multiple cottages, a pub and a run-down hotel and turned them into very good-looking places.
Para. 13
Mr. Williams spent the money buying the crystal glasses, the most expensive ones for the restaurant.
Para. 14
Paras. 9-14
3. Teaching log. ( summarize what have been learned) 3m
teacher-students reflection.
4. Possible Assignments 2m.
Section a repetition
5. Appendix B 50m
Broadly defined, to scan is to read quickly in order to locate or find the place in a piece of writing where a particular item of information is given and to take in that item of information. This kind of reading involves no reading in any detail of large sections of the piece of writing. Perhaps it is particularly useful in reading newspapers or some magazines. The steps involved in scanning are the following:
1. Decide exactly what information you are looking for, and think about the form it may take. For example, if you want to know when something happened, you would look for a date. If you want to find out who did something, you would look for a name.
2. Next, decide where you need to look to find the information you want. You probably would not look for sports scores on the front page of the newspaper, nor would you look under the letter S for the telephone number of Sam Potter.
3. Move your eyes as quickly as possible down the page until you find the information you need. Read it carefully.
4. When you find what you need, do not read further.
Practice P19 Scanning 10m
Students-centered teacher-guiding
B Scanning and skimming for needed information 20m
Extensive reading
Practice P25
6. Text-book correspondence 50m
Students are greatly spurred to take part in recalling and reflection. Some minutes’ students’ talking will be appreciated in the procedure.