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If only, I wish and the 3 conditionals to develop the oral skills through ICT
Pre-viewing activity 1
(PPT demonstration through picture or simple use of board)
“A skeleton in the cupboard” Are you familiar with this
expression?
Get divided into small groups and discuss its meaning
providing examples. Then report to the class. You need to
decide who is going to be the spokesman of the group.
Previewing activity 2
(PPT demonstration with web-researched picture of Adolf Hitler and skeleton gif
images)
This figure’s cupboard has plenty of skeletons. Can you mention some? Discuss
with your group and make up a short list. Use your history knowledge.
Now you may check your answers by visiting the site of Holocaust Memorial Museum
URL: http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/
3. Auschwitz
4. Death Marches
You are going to watch an extract from the movie “The Reader”
(Kate Winslet, David Kross, Ralph Fiennes). Before watching, go
through the synopsis of the story so far to get an idea.
Watch the first part of the clip and with your group work out the answers to the following
questions:
1. Which law school are the young people attending? What do you think of their choice?
2. What is the group’s first assignment?
3. How seriously does Michael take his work?
4. Where do the students and their professor go by train? Why?
What is in their minds? Guess the hypotheses these people are making about their choices
Watch the second part of the clip and complete the missing information on the table
(group work). Hanna Schmitz is Michael’s long lost lover, now a defendant.
The trial
Hanna’s charge
Hanna’s SS duties
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Describe Michael’s feelings and thoughts in the stills. Speak like him (1st person)
Step 2 - These characters’ words hide a wish. Can you work out what each one silently
wishes?
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Get divided into groups. You are preparing a poster of the movie on which there will be
pictures of several of the movie characters. Your task is to write a few words below each
character describing his role in the movie.
Get divided into groups. You are presenting some of the movie characters in the movie
advertising leaflet which is distributed to the public in the cinema halls.
Write a few lines (4-5) about each one of them.
In groups, discuss which of all the characters you mostly sympathise with. Your group
spokesman will report to the rest of the class.
Suppose the two young men had to express their view concerning Hanna’s guilt during the
trial. Their views differ dramatically, so you have to take sides. Help them support their
ideas with appropriate arguments.
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Suggested areas
• Concentration camps
• Major historic figures
• Nazi Germany , and so on
b. Uncommon relationships
• Types of differences
• Famous couples with a difference and their stories
• Social attitudes across centuries
c. Education
• Unresolved crimes
• Notorious criminals
• The Nuremberg trial
• Important trials
• Unjustly sentenced victims
• The capital punishment