Reading

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Unit 15 Reading

Designed by Wu Meili
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Lets enjoy the play.
The Jade ????
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Caoyu
France
The Thunder Storm
China
The Necklace
Maupsassant
Shakespeare
America
One Million Pound Note

Britain
The Merchant of Venice
Mark Twain
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Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
He was a well-known French novelist and
short-story writer. He was born in Normandy,
France, on Aug 5, 1850.
Main Works
The diamond necklace, Ball of fat(???),etc
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The Necklace
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• getting the invitation
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• borrowing a necklace
• ?
• attending the ball
• ?
• losing the necklace
• ?
• returning the necklace
• ?
• learning the truth

plot
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Video Scene 1
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Scene 1

• Time
• Place
• Characters
• General idea

One afternoon, 1870
A park in Paris
Marthilde, Jeanne
Marthilde tells Jeanne about her ten years of
hard life.
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Scene 2
Ten years before

• Time
• Place
• Characters
• General idea

Home of Mathilde and Pierre
Mathilde and Pierre Loisel
Pierre and his wife were invited to the ball at
the palace.They decided to borrow some jewellery
from Jeanne.
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Scene 3

• Time
• Place
• Characters
• General idea

Ten years later
In the park
Mathilde, Jeanne
Mathilde lost the necklace at the ball. So she
and her husband worked ten years to pay for it.
But ten years later, Jeanne tells her the
necklace was not a real diamond necklace.
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Characters
a young lady, pretty but vain(???)

• Mathilde
• Pierre
• Jeanne

a government worker, not rich
a young lady, rich but warm- hearted
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The line of Mathildes fate

attend the ball
??
pay off
borrow
work hard
receive an invitation
learn the truth
lose

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Discussion
Girls If you were Mathilde , what would you do
next?

Boys If you were Pierre, what would you
do next?
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Homework

• 1. Read the play.
• 2.Continue the story and write a scene in which
  Mathilde comes back home to tell her husband
  about her meeting with Jeanne.