Functional Skills English - The door in the wall presentation
Functional Skills English
Week 31 -
Skills we will be focusing on today!
Items in this lesson
Functional Skills English
Week 31 -
Skills we will be focusing on today!
LO:
Identify main ideas from a short extract.
Understand new vocabulary in context.
Share opinions and personal responses.
The door in the wall – H.G. Wells (1906)
If you found a hidden door that led somewhere amazing … would you go through it?
What might be on the other side?
Why/Why not?
What could be hidden behind this door?
In pairs, describe this picture, using the 5 W’s.
Extension: What is the atmosphere or mood created?
What, why, when, how, and who?
What could be behind the door?
Would you open it?
What emotions might you feel opening the door?
Whole group discussion!
Part 1 themes:
From these pictures can we identify any themes in this extract?
Curiosity
Childhood and innocence
Real or imagined
Can you think of any others?
Vocabulary Hunt!
In pairs, find some examples from part 1 of the things below:
Try and find two examples of each!
Introduction of a story recap!
In pairs, discuss what you know or remember about how a story begins!
Characters
Place/Setting
A mood or atmosphere.
A dilemma or problem!
Please summarise in your own words in your books!
The Exposition – or beginning of a story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78RnR1LKYPg
Part 1:
Wallace’s confession and the first discovery of the door in the wall.
We will be reading part 1 of ‘The door in the wall’.
Please be ready to read aloud if you feel comfortable enough to do so!
If there are words that we encounter that you do not know, please underline and we will go through the meanings of them!
Draw the scene – Part 1
Your turn – Draw or write the events in the extract in order!
BEGINNING, MIDDLE AND END
Your predictions…
Now that we have read the first part of the story, discuss or write down what you think will happen next!
Prediction: something you believe will happen, based on what you already know.
