Istituto Comprensivo di Montecchio Emilia

Progetto "Giardini partecipati" alla Scuola "E. De Amicis" di Montecchio Emilia

"The Selfish Giant" di Oscar Wilde - Progetto a cura della docente di L2 Giorgia Medici

Un giardino per... approcciarsi alla letteratura.
Le classi quinte della Scuola Primaria hanno scoperto Oscar Wilde e il suo giardino del Gigante Egoista. Hanno lavorato motivati con letture e interpretazioni (pdf, 217 kb), musica e films, disegni e colori (pdf, 86 kb).

"The Giant had a beautiful garden. It had lovely green grass, peach trees and rich fruits. Birds sang there and children played."

Material:
• 1 copy of the short story for each pupil
• coloured pencils
• attention and motivation

Warm up:
• Brainstorming about the meaning of the word selfish
• The children make their books by organizing together the pages and writing numbers on them
• Write the name on page 1
• Vocabulary on page 2

Lesson 1:
• Presentation of the four seasons' words: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn
• Ask to each pupil: What's your favourite season? Is December in Autumn? or Is May in Summer?
• Let's read page 3 and part of page 4
• Let's describe the situation: how are the children? What is the garden like? Underline in GREEN the adjectives and the positive sentences about the garden.

Lesson 2
• Two or three volunteers make a short summery of the lesson before
• Let's read page 4 and page 5
• Underline in PURPLE the changing of the weather
• Vocabulary: the Weather
• Colouring the picture

Lesson 3
• In class: Listen Vivaldi's Spring and Winter and in the meanwhile draw the garden in Spring on page 1 and the garden in winter on page 20
• At home: Understanding the text, page 6

Lesson 4:
• Fruit by my garden: complete the additional page about fruit and seasons
• Let's read page 7
• Underline the verbs

Lesson 5:
• Two or three volunteers make a short summery of the lessons before
• Let's read page 8, 9 and 10
• Underline the verbs
• Choose 2 verbs and say the indicative present (affirmative and negative form, than write it down)

Lesson 6:
• Revision of the short story until now
• Oral test: read part of the text in English
• During the oral test the rest of the pupils work in pairs on page 11 and 12

Lesson 7:
• Let's watch part of the cartoon (from Youtube)

Lesson 8:
• The teacher make a summary of page 13, 14 and 15
• Quick reading of page 13, 14, 15
• Page 16
• At home: Draw the cover of your book

Lesson 9:
• Let's watch the cartoon

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