Sherlock Holmes

Lesson Plan 7
0. 2 teams Igloo vs Stilt house students take their card from the hat
1. Warm up: http://go4english.co.uk/ffk/read.php?unitid=1427 MEMORY GAME
FURNITURE
2. READ FRAGMENT 1
3. COMPREHENSION exercise - put the events in chronological order
4. FORENSIC vocabulary - ppt + quiz
5. IDENTIFY THE STUDENT IN 30 SECONDS!
- 2 teams - teams take turns to give one sentence about a detail which
is true only about ONE member of their team (objects he/she has, clothes,
accessories, etc) and the other team gets 30 seconds to search the members
of the other team/ their bags / etc in order to discover the student described!
- e.g. One of us has got a dolphin! (There is someone in their team who
has a dolphin-shaped earring.)
6. READ FRAGMENT 2
7. COMPREHENSION exercise - tic-tac-toe
8. MOVIE - Part 5
9. WHILE WATCHING - write TRUE/FALSE
10.PLAY - The three students - Day 7
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warm up: Drama activity - SAME WORDS, DIFFERENT SPEAKERS!

students work in pairs to act out the short dialogue; the dialogue
is the same, but the students' intonation and gestures should be
different and expressive enough for the other students to guess
where the characters are and what they are doing!
SITUATON 1: at a police station
POLICEMAN: You did it, didn't you? (threatening)
SUSPECT: No, no, no, I didn't! It wasn't me!(scared) What happens is
that ...
SITUATON 2: in the park

GIRL: You did it, didn't you? (pleasantly surprised to find a ring
on the bench)
BOY: No, no, no, I didn't! It wasn't me!(amusedly lying) What
happens is that ...
SITUATON 3: at home
FATHER: You did it, didn't you? (certain that his child did
something wrong)
CHILD: No, no, no, I didn't! It wasn't me!(forcefully denying
everything) What happens is that ...
SITUATON 4: in the ocean
1ST SWIMMER: You did it, didn't you? (hoping he was hit by his
friend's leg in the water)
2 ND SWIMMER: No, no, no, I didn't! It wasn't me!(terrified by the
sharks swimming around them) What happens is that ...
SITUATON 5: in heavy traffic
1ST DRIVER: You did it, didn't you? (furious that the other driver
hit his/her car)
2 ND DRIVER: No, no, no, I didn't! It wasn't me!(apologetic) What
happens is that ...
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Listen to the fragment on CD (first half of scene 8)

Read the fragment
Comprehension exercise write the missing word
ACT OUT the fragment of the play: the students work in groups of 5
(Holmes, Soames, Bannister, Watson, Gilchrist); in the end they vote
for the best actors