USING LITERATURE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

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A LESSON PLAN FOR TEACHING SHORT STORY

Teacher’s Name

School

Class 11-A

Age of Students 17

Proficiency Level of Upper Intermediate

Students

Size of Class 26

Date of Presentation

Estimated Duration of 40 minutes

the Lesson

Performance By the end of the lesson, at least %80 of the

Objectives students will be able to use the target words in their
daily life, they will pronounce them correctly and
also they will be able to recognize the target
structure and do critical thinking about the content.

Language Skills and Learning Outcomes

Listening Students will be able to recognize the

target words related to content.
Pronunciation Students will be able to pronounce the target
words correctly.
Speaking Students will be able to talk about content by
using the target words
Reading Students will be able to guess the meaning
of unfamiliar vocabulary using contextual
clues from a text about content.
Writing Students will be able to write a paragraph about
the content by using target words.
Structure Simple past and past tense of to be
Materials Course books, pictures, video,handouts.

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Part 1.Warm Up

Teacher : Good morning.

Students : ------

Teacher : How are you today ?

Students : ---------

Teacher : What do you think about real friendship,do you have a real friend?

Part 2.Explain the aim

Today,we will learn something about O.Henry by reading his work which is called as “After
20 Years” also we will do a lot of fun activities and I hope you all will enjoy and learn..We
will play games,learn new vocabularies.At the end of the lesson,you will be able to use the
target words in a correct pronunciation and also you will be able to speak about the content in
a creative way.

Part 4. PRE-READING

Exercise 4.1. Introducing of the Author with Presentation and Video

4.2.Pronunciation of the Vocabularies

Intricate

Drag

Appointment

Tremble

Announce

Submerge

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4.3 Teaching Vocabulary

Intricate : /ˈɪntrɪkət/ - Adjective

Pronunciation: Giving pronunciation.
Repetition: Repetition of the vocab.
Convey the meaning: very complicated or detailed..
Sample sentence using the target word: We have learned the solution of an intricate math
problem today.
Use:Can you give an example with using this word ?

Drag : /dræɡ/- Verb

Pronunciation: Giving pronunciation.
Repetition: Repetition of the vocab.
Convey the meaning: pull (someone or something) along forcefully, roughly, or with
difficulty.

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Sample sentence using the target word: The girl drags the other girl in the picture.
Use:Can you give an example with using this word ?

Appointment : /əˈpɔɪntmənt/ Noun

Pronunciation: Giving pronunciation.
Repetition: Repetition of the vocab.
Convey the meaning: an arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place.
Sample sentence using the target word: I'd like to make an appointment with Dr Evans,
please.
Use:Can you give an example with using this word ?

Tremble : /ˈtremb(ə)l/Verb
Pronunciation: Giving pronunciation.
Repetition: Repetition of the vocab.
Convey the meaning: shake involuntarily, typically as a result of anxiety, excitement, or
frailty..
Sample sentence using the target word: Adam’s hands began to tremble as he opened the
letter.
Use:Can you give an example with using this word ?

Announce : /əˈnaʊns/ Verb

Pronunciation: Giving pronunciation.
Repetition: Repetition of the vocab.
Convey the meaning: to make a public or official statement, especially about a plan, decision,
or something that has happened
Sample sentence using the target word: She announced the winner of the competition to

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Submerge : /səbˈmɜː(r)dʒ/ Verb

Pronunciation: Giving pronunciation.
Repetition: Repetition of the vocab.
Convey the meaning: cause (something) to be under water.
Sample sentence using the target word: The submarine submerged when enemy planes
were sighted.
Use:Can you give an example with using this word ?

Part 5.Pre-reading Questions:

5.1Answer the following questions.

1.Is friendship important in your culture?

2.What does it mean to be a good friend?

3.Do you have any long-term friendship ?

4.How many years have you known your best friend?

5.Would you complain your best friend to the police about a fault?

WHILE READING

6.Reading: Let’s read the passage together –After Twenty Years

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The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and
not for show, for spectators were few. The time was barely 10 o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of
wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh depeopled the streets.
Trying doors as he went, twirling his club with many intricate and artful movements, turning now
and then to cast his watchful eye adown the pacific thoroughfare, the officer, with his stalwart form
and slight swagger, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace. The vicinity was one that kept
early hours. Now and then you might see the lights of a cigar store or of an all-night lunch counter;
but the majority of the doors belonged to business places that had long since been closed.
When about midway of a certain block the policeman suddenly slowed his walk. In the doorway of
a darkened hardware store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth. As the policeman
walked up to him the man spoke up quickly.
"It's all right, officer," he said, reassuringly. "I'm just waiting for a friend. It's an appointment made
twenty years ago. Sounds a little funny to you, doesn't it? Well, I'll explain if you'd like to make
certain it's all straight. About that long ago there used to be a restaurant where this store stands--'Big
Joe' Brady's restaurant."
"Until five years ago," said the policeman. "It was torn down then."
The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar. The light showed a pale, square-jawed face
with keen eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow. His scarfpin was a large diamond,
oddly set.
"Twenty years ago to-night," said the man, "I dined here at 'Big Joe' Brady's with Jimmy Wells, my
best chum, and the finest chap in the world. He and I were raised here in New York, just like two
brothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the
West to make my fortune. You couldn't have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was
the only place on earth. Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty
years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we
might have to come. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our destiny worked
out and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be."
"It sounds pretty interesting," said the policeman. "Rather a long time between meets, though, it
seems to me. Haven't you heard from your friend since you left?"
"Well, yes, for a time we corresponded," said the other. "But after a year or two we lost track of
each other. You see, the West is a pretty big proposition, and I kept hustling around over it pretty
lively. But I know Jimmy will meet me here if he's alive, for he always was the truest, stanchest old
chap in the world. He'll never forget. I came a thousand miles to stand in this door to-night, and it's
worth it if my old partner turns up."
The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch, the lids of it set with small diamonds.
"Three minutes to ten," he announced. "It was exactly ten o'clock when we parted here at the
restaurant door."
"Did pretty well out West, didn't you?" asked the policeman.
"You bet! I hope Jimmy has done half as well. He was a kind of plodder, though, good fellow as he
was. I've had to compete with some of the sharpest wits going to get my pile. A man gets in a
groove in New York. It takes the West to put a razor-edge on him."
The policeman twirled his club and took a step or two.
"I'll be on my way. Hope your friend comes around all right. Going to call time on him sharp?"
"I should say not!" said the other. "I'll give him half an hour at least. If Jimmy is alive on earth he'll
be here by that time. So long, officer."
"Good-night, sir," said the policeman, passing on along his beat, trying doors as he went.
There was now a fine, cold drizzle falling, and the wind had risen from its uncertain puffs into a
steady blow. The few foot passengers astir in that quarter hurried dismally and silently along with
coat collars turned high and pocketed hands. And in the door of the hardware store the man who had
come a thousand miles to fill an appointment, uncertain almost to absurdity, with the friend of his
youth, smoked his cigar and waited.
About twenty minutes he waited, and then a tall man in a long overcoat, with collar turned up to his
ears, hurried across from the opposite side of the street. He went directly to the waiting man.
"Is that you, Bob?" he asked, doubtfully.
"Is that you, Jimmy Wells?" cried the man in the door.

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 "Bless my heart!" exclaimed the new arrival, grasping both the other's hands with his own. "It's
Bob, sure as fate. I was certain I'd find you here if you were still in existence. Well, well,
well! --twenty years is a long time. The old gone, Bob; I wish it had lasted, so we could have had
another dinner there. How has the West treated you, old man?"
"Bully; it has given me everything I asked it for. You've changed lots, Jimmy. I never thought you
were so tall by two or three inches."
"Oh, I grew a bit after I was twenty."
"Doing well in New York, Jimmy?"
"Moderately. I have a position in one of the city departments. Come on, Bob; we'll go around to a
place I know of, and have a good long talk about old times."
The two men started up the street, arm in arm. The man from the West, his egotism enlarged by
success, was beginning to outline the history of his career. The other, submerged in his overcoat,
listened with interest.
At the corner stood a drug store, brilliant with electric lights. When they came into this glare each of
them turned simultaneously to gaze upon the other's face.
The man from the West stopped suddenly and released his arm.
"You're not Jimmy Wells," he snapped. "Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change
a man's nose from a Roman to a pug."
"It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one, said the tall man. "You've been under arrest for
ten minutes, 'Silky' Bob. Chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and wires us she
wants to have a chat with you. Going quietly, are you? That's sensible. Now, before we go on to the
station here's a note I was asked to hand you. You may read it here at the window. It's from
Patrolman Wells."
The man from the West unfolded the little piece of paper handed him. His hand was steady when he
began to read, but it trembled a little by the time he had finished. The note was rather short.
"Bob: I was at the appointed place on time. When you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it
was the face of the man wanted in Chicago. Somehow I couldn't do it myself, so I went around and
got a plain clothes man to do the job.
JIMMY."

Exercise 6.1: Read the questions and answer them according to the passage.

1. Who are the main characters?

2. What is the appointment between the two friends about in "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry?

3. When does Bob realize that the man to whom he is talking is not Jimmy Wells, and how does he
realize?

4. What is the difference between Jimmy Wells and Silky Bob ?

Answer Key :

1) Bob, Jimmy and Police Officer

2) The appointment between Bob and Jimmy to meet again in twenty years was just for the
sake of reunion .

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 3) Bob realizes that the man with whom he talks is not Jimmy Wells after they walk under the
brilliant electric lights of a drug store. He is startled that this man is a stranger
4) The difference is the two paths that each took over their lives. Bob became a thief while
Jimmy led a more honorable life.

Exercise 6.2:Making Outline : Write the

Exercise 6.3:CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: Read the descriptive phrases below. Look up any
unknown words in a dictionary. As you read the story, decide if these phrases describe The
man waiting for his friend or The first cop.

a-A little white mark near his right eye

b-Watchful
c-reassuringly
d-square-jawed face
e-Keen eyes
f-A fine looking cop
g-stalwart form

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Answerkey : a-1 , b-2,c-1,d-1,e-1,f-2,g-2

Exercise 6.4.:Questionning

1-Which sentence reveals the story's point of view?

A) "The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively."

B) " I dined here at 'Big Joe' Brady's with Jimmy Wells, my best chum..."
C) "I'll be on my way."
D) "I should say not!"

2-Bob feels that his old friend Jimmy Wells is a — *

A) real genius
B) true friend
C) go getter, always making clever deals
D) razor-sharp wit

3-Who is telling the story?

A) Jimmy Wells
B) "Silky" Bos
C) An Unnamed narrator
D) The second police officer

4-Which of the following statements best describes “Silky” Bob’s reasons for returning to New York
City? *

A) He has come to see his dying mother.

B) He is trying to avoid being arrested
C) He is meeting a girlfriend
D) He is hoping to meet an old friend

Answer Key : 1-A , 2-B,3-C,4-D

Exercise 6.5.: Vocabulary -Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the box.

Appointment Announce Submerge

Tremble Intricate Drag

1-) The politicians ____________ the new law about the distance education.
2-) The cat was ___________ in front of the window because it was wet.

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3-) Our English teacher will not come to the lesson because she has an __________ with her
doctor.
4-) Soldiers ________ the submarines when they saw the enemy soldiers.
5-) She ____________ the canoe down to the water.
6-) Professor solved a ___________ question successfully.

Answers : 1-announced,2-trembling,3-appointment,4-submerged,5-dragged,6-intricate

6.6. Vocabulary Exercise 2 : Please try to match pictures with the words listed in
Exercise 4.2.

1. 2. a.The labyrinth game on the board was

so intricate for him

b. The new law was announced in the

TV program..
3. 4.

c.She submerged the lake suddenly .

d.Animals were trembling because of

5. the cold weather.

e.She dragged his friend along the road.

f.I have an appointment on Friday.

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Part 8.POST READING

Exercise 8.1:Speaking

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“After Twenty Years” is a story about two friends, Bob and Jimmy. They go their separate
ways but agree to meet again twenty years later. Bob returns to New York City. He is waiting
for Jimmy to arrive where the restaurant used to be where they said good-bye to each other.
Think of your own situation: Who is your best friend? What would happen if you and your
friend go your separate ways? Imagine you meet again in twenty years. What will you both
be like? What do you think your conversation might be like?Work in pairs…

Exercise 8.2:Game

I will seperate you three different groups and i will give you two pictures and features of the characters
from the short story and you will match them.The group which complete the task first will win the
game.

Part 9.Summary of the lesson

 We have talked about friendship today.We have read the short story of O.Henry which
is called as “After Twenty Years” and we have learned the target words from the text
and also we have done some exercises.Let’s pronunce again teh target words…
Intricate,Drag,Appointment,Tremble,Announce,Submerge..Do you have any question?

Part 10.Homework

Please,talk with your parent about the following questions :We will read them next
week
1.If your friend stole money, would you tell the police? Why?

Yes- Maybe -No

2. If you were a cop and were supposed to arrest your friend for a crime, would you do it? Why?

Yes- Maybe -No

3. If your friend did something to hurt you, would you forgive your friend if he or she apologized?
Why?

Yes- Maybe- No

NAME Answer to Answer to Answer to

Question 1 Question 2 Question 3

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Complete the Self Assessment and Evaluation part

Part 11.Self Assessment and Evaluation.

a.Self Assessment

1:complex; complicated; hard to understand, work, or make: ___________

2:to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; tr
ail : _________________

3: a meeting set for a specific time or place: ____________________

4:to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, exciteme
nt, weakness, or cold; quake;quiver : _________________________

5: make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: ____________

6:to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.

________________________

1-Where is the setting ?

A)Orlando

B)Chicago

C)Boston

D)Newyork

2- How did the police officer recognize Jimmy?

A)He didn't, the police office just kept walking

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B)He lit his cigar and the police officer was able to see his face

C)Jimmy introduced himself

D)From a Picture

3- What happens at the climax of the story?

A) Bob relayed that the man is not really Jimmy

B) Bob pulls out a handsome watch

C) The plainclothes policemen tells Bob that he is under arrest

D) Bob notices Jimmy is taler

4- Which quote supports Bob's reson for returning to New York City?

A) "The West if a pretty big proposition."

B) "His scarf pin was a large diamond"

C) "It takes the West to put a razor edge on him."

D) "We agreed that night we would meet here again."

b.Self Evaluation

New Vocabularies

Write 7 new vocabularies you learned and write their Turkish meanings.

ENGLISH WORDS TURKISH MEANINGS

1- 1-
2- 2-
3- 3-
4- 4-
5- 5-
6- 6-

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