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Level 1 Beginner/Elementary CEF: A1
A Little Trouble in Dublin
Cam Dis Rea
Richard MacAndrew
Aims ■
To make students interested in the book.
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To think about the types of events that might happen in an adventure story.
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To learn more about some of the characters charac ters in the story and their relationship relationship with each e ach other.
NB You may fnd that many o the activities described below can be exploited better in your students’ own language or mother tongue, i you speak it. Te mother tongue, i used careully as a resource, can acilitate your students’ progress in English and help them to understand the context o the story, thus preparing them to understand it better when they read it.
Pre-reading Activities 1 ell students the title o the book is A Little Little Troub Trouble le in Dublin. Write a list o types o stories (genres) on the board (e.g. murder mystery, comedy, science fction, romance, adventure). Discuss these with students to ensure they know what they all are. Students now look at Illustration 1. Ask What Ask What do you see? Suggested answers: two people (a boy and a girl) running away rom a building at night, money.
Now ask What ask What genre do you think A Little rouble in Dublin is? Answer: Adventure.
2 Ask students to look at Extract 1, a list o people
4 alk briey to students about bank notes. o images do they have on them?
Suggested answer: images o people or p are important to a country or group o co
Give students a piece o paper the size o and ask them to design a new note. Stick up and give them all a number. Now ask vote or or their three avouri avourite te designs. NB Students must not vote or their own Which is the most popular design?
5 ell students that in A in A Little Little Troub Trouble le in D Mary visits a museum shop. Divide the cl two teams and ask each team to write up items they think are on sale in a museum give each item a price (in euros). Tis pri should be a whole number (e.g. €13, not eams now swap lists. Give each team tw to memorise the list o items and their pr the end o the two minutes, the winning t is the team that remembers the most item prices accurately.
6 Ask students to read Extract 3. Discuss w happening in the extract.
Suggested answer: Andy and Mary are o man in Dublin. Te man goes into a hous wants to leave, but Mary wants to wait lon Sign up to vote on this title isn’t isn’t happy, but he doesn’ d oesn’tt want to leave h Useful useful wait Not Tey another 30 minutes.
Now ask students to imagine that Andy to say what he thinks about waiting. Tey
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nervous). Finally, ask them to write a simple scene as in Extract 3, where they ollow someone. Tey should try to show what the place is like and how they eel as well as what is happening.
9 Ask students to look at Illustration 3 and to discuss with a partner. What do they think is happening and why? Answer: Andy and Mary are trying to escape rom the two men in the picture by putting their hands over their eyes so they can’t see while the car is moving (although you may wish to let the students fnd this out by reading the book).
10 Students think o a caption or the Illustration 3 and share these with the whole class.
Post-reading Activities 1 Ask students to complete the sentence: Te thing I liked best about A Little Trouble in Dublin was … 2 Ask students to make a change to the story to provide an entirely dierent ending. Feedback to the whole class. How similar are the ideas? 3 Game – How well do you know me? Place the class in groups o three – Student 1 is Mary, Student 2 is Andy and Student 3 is the questioner.
You're Reading a Preview Student 3 secretly writes three questions about Mary full access with a free trial. and three questions about Andy (e.g. At Unlock a restaurant, does Mary choose a burger, a pizza or a salad? ). Download With Free Trial Student 3 then asks Student 1 the three questions about Mary without Student 2 being present and notes the answer.
Student 2 then returns and Student 3 asks him the same three questions about Mary. Student 2 gets a point or every answer that is the same as Student 1’s. Now repeat the above, but this time with Student 3 asking Student 2 questions about Andy while Student 1 is out o the room.
4 Write a 100-word story or a Dublin newspaper about Mary and Andy’s adventures.
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People in the story Andy Lawson: a thirteen-year-old boy; Mary Lawson’s twin brother Mary Lawson: a thirteen-year-old girls: Andy Lawson’s twin sister Miss O’Brien: Andy and Mary’s science teacher Mr Green Shirt: Mary sees this man in a shop Mr Blue Shirt: a riend o Mr Green Shirt Inspector Helen Forrester: a Dublin police ocer Sergeant Tom Brady: A Dublin Police ocer. Extract 2
‘I can’t take this,’ said the shop assistant. ‘Why not?’ asked Mary. ‘It’s not a real €20 note,’ he answered. ‘It’s orged – it’s not real. Look here.’ He ound a new €20 note and put it on the shop window. Ten he put Mary’s note next to it. ‘Look on the le o the note,’ the assistant told Mary. ‘You can see a kind o window on the real note, but there isn’t one on yours. Yours is orged.’
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Mary watched the man. He turned right. Andy and Mary ran aer him and turned right too. Download With Free Trial ‘Don’t get too near him,’ said Mary. ‘We don’t want him to see us.’ For ten minutes they walked about fy metres behind the man. First there was rinity College on their le, then the National Gallery on their right. Next came Merrion Square. Tere were houses round the Sign up to vote on this title square, and trees and gardens in it. Useful Not useful Te man walked up to the ront door o a house, opened the door and went in.
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