Extensive Reading

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Extensive Reading
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Pre-reading

• 1. Do you know something about Wilkie Collinss
  life?
• I know he was the author of The Moonstone and
  he had written several detective stories.

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• 2. What was he considered as in the English
  literature?
• He was considered as the father of the modern
  English detective novels.

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• 3. How many detective novels Collins wrote have
  you read?
• Ive read The Moonstone in the textbook and
  The Woman in White The Moonstone was considered
  as the first and greatest of English detective
  novels.

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• 4. Do you know another great writer, Charles
  Dickens? Have you read his works?
• Charles Dickens was the greatest novelist of
  English world in the nineteenth century. He wrote
  a number of good English novels

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• such as Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities,
  Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Hard Times.

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Fast-reading
Wilkie Collins
Name
Birth year and birthplace
Works
in London, in 1824
26 novels and many other stories, plays and
non-fictions
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Achievements
Masterpiece
Honour or Title
the first and best detective English novel
The Woman in White and The Moonstone
the Father of the English modern detective novel
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Careful reading

• Why did crime in Britain increased quickly at
  that time?
• Farms needed fewer workers because of using
  new machines. So people from the countryside
  moved to the cities to look for jobs in factories.

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• Factories also needed fewer workers because
  of using more and more machines, so there were
  not enough jobs to offer them.
• Urban populations increased quickly and
  unemployment, overcrowding and poverty became
  widespread.

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• I think crime at that time was on the rise
  mainly because of the Agricultural and Industrial
  Revolutions.

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Analyze
The writing skills and techniques in The
Moonstone

• 1. The way he revealed the events to readers by
  using different characters to tell a story.

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• 2. He described different characters with
  different personalities and voices to make the
  story more interesting and amusing.
• 3. He used several features of the plot to start
  trends in mystery writing.

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Homework

• Preparation review the checkpoints
• in this unit.