Pearson Education Limited 2002 Penguin Readers Factsheets

Penguin Readers Factsheets
Teacher’s Notes
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Published and distributed by Pearson Education
Factsheet written by Coleen Degnan-Veness
Factsheet series developed by Louise James
The following teacher-led activities cover the same sections of text
as the exercises at the back of the reader, and supplement those
exercises. Further supplementary exercises, covering shorter
sections of the book, can be found on the photocopiable Student’s
Activities pages of this Factsheet. These are primarily for use with
class readers, but with the exception of pair/groupwork questions,
can also be used by students working alone in a self-access centre.
ACTIVITIES BEFORE READING THE BOOK
1 Find out how many of your students have seen the movie
The Mummy Returns
. Divide the students into small groups,
putting students who have seen the movie with ones who
have not. The students who have seen the movie should tell
the others about the characters and their relationships. 
2 Write these words on the board: 
battle, bracelet, desert, gold,
king, mummy, pyramid, scorpion, soldier
. Ask the students to
find these words in their dictionaries and to write the words
on one side of a sheet of paper, then turn the paper over and
write the definitions and/or translation of the words. After they
have done this, give them ten minutes to work in pairs
learning these words. Then tell them to put their papers away
and answer these questions. Ask them: 
Which word or words
on the board are words for people? Which word or words do
we read when we read about Egypt? Why?
3 Write these names on the board: 
Scorpion King Lock-Nah
Alex Ardeth Bay the mummy Imhotep Anck-su-namun
Izzy.
Help the students to learn the pronunciation of these
names, then ask them to work in pairs and find pictures of
the these characters in their reader. In pairs they should
discuss what they know about each character from the
pictures and the captions. Then have a whole class
discussion about mummies: where they can be found, why
people are interested in them, and why they have been so
popular in the movie industry.
ACTIVITIES AFTER READING A SECTION