2019学年度外研版选修七Module3LiteraturePeriod 4 Writing教案

■ Goal

● To practice writing a description of characters

● To enjoy the reading of Great Expectations

▇ Procedures

Step 1: Read the passage Great Expectations again and try to fill in the blanks before doing the writing.

characters family situation in life personality

Pip

Estella

Miss Havisham

Abel Magwitch

For reference

characters family situation in life personality

Pip poor orphan; living with his sister's; helps a starving convict; years later, receives money every month; educated; lives comfortably; has a successful career; marries Estella at last. kind, helpful

Estella a little complicated Magwitch's daughter; seem to be abandoned; living with a wealthy old lady; married a wealthy man; treated badly; then became a widow; at last learnt the meaning of love; marries Pip beautiful; cold and cruel to men at one time

Miss Havisham wealthy fiancé left her on her wedding day; encourages Estella to treat men coldly and cruelly lonely; hates all men

Abel Magwitch a little complicated a convict escaped from prison; caught again and sent to Australia; made a lot of money in Australia; gives Pip money every month to repay his kindness; returns to England illegally; then caught and dies. indomitable (百折不挠的)

loyal(讲义气的)

Step 2: Discuss your ideas with your partner

Step 3: Write a short description of the characters in Great Expectations according to the form above.

Step 4: Now here's some part from Chapter 59 in Great Expectations. Shall we enjoy reading it together?

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Chapter 59

I had heard of her as leading a most unhappy life, and as being separated from her husband, who had used her with great cruelty, and who had become quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice (贪婪), brutality (野蛮), and meanness (卑鄙). And I had heard of the death of her husband, from an accident consequent on his ill-treatment of a horse. This release had befallen her some two years before; for