Zahiriddin muhammad bobur nomidagi andijon davlat universiteti ingliz tili grammatikasi kafedrasi

80 minutes

Aim: Material: Aids:

a) to introduce extensive reading (literary reading) b) to let students practice extensive reading (literary reading) Anna Osborne. Reading. B1 + Intermediate. Collins Publishers Charts, laptop with speakers, audio recordings, handouts, white board

Activity 1. The title of the book featured in this unit is Great Expectations. What do you think the book might be about?
1 It might be about somebody waiting for a big delivery.
2 It might be about somebody who has great hopes for their future.
3 It might be about somebody who is going to have a baby.
Activity 2. Where do you find the book blurb (blurb – asarning bayoni) and what is it for?
1 On the front of the book to tell you the book's title and who wrote it
2 On the back of the book to tell you a bit about the book and make you want to read it
3 Inside the book to tell you what other books the author has also written
Activity 3. Read the book blurb for Great Expectations
When Pip is о young boy, ho moots two people who influence his whole life — Magwitch (the convict whom he is forced to help) and Miss Havisham (the eccentric old woman
with her beautiful ward, Estella). When he is left a fortune by а secret benefactor,
he heads to London with great expectations of becoming a gentleman
and winning Estella's favour. But his happiness is interrupted one
stormy night when he has a visitor from his past ....


Pip, a young boy, is walking in a graveyard near his home, when suddenly …

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‘Hold your noise!' cried a terrible voice, as a man stood up from among the graves at the side of the church. 'Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!' A fearful man, all in grey, with a great iron chain on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud. and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. 'Oh! Don't cut my throat, sir.' I pleaded in terror. 'Please don't do it. sir.' 'Tell me your name!’ said the man. 'Quick!' 'Pip, sir.' 'Once more,' said the man, staring at me. 'Say it louder!' 'Pip. Pip, sir.' 'Show me where you live,' said the man. 'Point out the place!' I pointed to where our village lay a mile or more from the church. The man. after looking at me for a moment, turned me upside down, and emptied my pockets. There was nothing in them but a piece of bread. I sat on a high tombstone. trembling while he ate the bread ravenously. 'Now, look here.' he said, 'you bring me, tomorrow morning early, a file to cut off these chains and some food. You bring it all to me. You do it. and you never dare to say a word or make a sign about having seen me or anybody at all, and I'll let you live. If you fail, or don't do as I tell you exactly, your liver and heart will be torn out, roasted and eaten ....