1.Fast-reading

Activity:Fast reading

Purpose: To have a general idea of the passage.

1.How many characters are mentioncd in the story?

2.Collect as much imformation as they can about Dr Manette?(8个)

2.Careful reading

Activiby1:Answer some questions

Purpose: To understand the passage better and develop Ss’ ability of guessing words.

a. When and where did the story happen?

b. Why is the past perfect tense often used? Like, They had come from England , having heard the strange news that Dr Manette was alive……

c.What’s the order of the three events?

1.Dr Munette was set free

2.Dr Manette was kept a prisoner for many years

3.Lucie Manette heard the news that her father was alive and set free

d. What’s the meaning of “mentally disturbed”in the sentence.

e. Who was Charles Darney? And why had he left France to live in England.

f. How do you understand the sentence“so he left France, preferring to give up the fortune that would one day come to him”

Activity2: Careful reading

Purpose: To understand the passage thoroughly

1.Relations between the main characters and finish the notes.

2.Arrange the following things in the correct order?

Sstep 3: Finishing the task

①Why did Charles Dickens mention that the two young man, Charles Darley and Sydney Carton looked so much like each other.

②Why did the writer write “An English spy told the Defarges,a revelutionary leader, that Sydney Carton in Pairs and he was the nephew of Marquis……”

③What did sydney carton promise Lucie Manette?

Activity:make up stories

Purpose: To develop Ss’ability of speaking and thinking

a letter addressed to Charles Darney

go back to France→arrest: be sentenced to death, special medicine. Change clothes, send to sleep, be carried out of , take the place of

Step4:More reading L87