2021-2022 FALL SEMESTER

ELEP 305 TEACHING

FINAL TASK

Teacher: Hatice Kübra Arslan

Date: 08.01.22
Level: Upper- intermediate level young adults
Duration: 20 mins.
Name of the text: The Beautiful Suit By H.G Wells
Name of the activity: Momentum is Maintained
Type of the activity: First encounters & Maintaining momentum

PROCEDURES (Explain each step of the activities)

(FOR TEACHERS)

PART A. Pre-reading

A. The teacher shows some pictures related to the story and asks students to guess what
could be the story about.
B. The teacher asks students to divide into groups of four. Then, the teacher shows some
key words from the first paragraphs of the story and asks them to discuss narrative
connections between the key words in their groups. (Note for the teacher: Students are
familiar with the concept of narrative connections.)
C. After each group has settled on a specific pattern of connection, the teacher asks them to
construct a story together. Then, the teacher asks them to share their stories with the rest
of the class.

PART B. While-reading

A. The teacher gives students mixed parts from a summary of the story and asks them to
re-order the parts in a meaningful way.

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APPENDIX

(FOR STUDENTS)

PART A. Pre-reading

A. Look at the pictures below and guess what could be the story about.

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B. Divide into groups of four. Look at the key words given in the box below and discuss
narrative connections between the key words in your groups. You have five minutes.

SUIT CARING
GUARDS
DELICATE
WOVEN
ASTONISHED RARE

C. Construct a story together by using the narrative connections between the key words in
your groups in five minutes. Share your story with the rest of the class.

PART B. While-reading

A. Mixed parts from the summary of our story are given below. Re-order the parts in a
meaningful way. You have 10 minutes.

1. He decides that now is the time to wear his suit as it should be worn, without any of its
protections. After dressing in his beautiful suit, he climbs out the window into the garden
below. Moonshine is “tangled in the hedges”, and the darkness of the night is replaced by
“warm, mysterious shadows”.

2. The little man’s mother makes him a beautiful suit of green and gold, of indescribable
delicacy and fineness. The buttons shine like stars, and so enthralled is the little man with
his new apparel that he wants to wear it everywhere.

3. “One strange night” the little man wakes up and sees the moonlight shining outside his
bedroom window, but not a common moonlight.

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4. The following morning the little man is found dead at the bottom of the stone pit, his neck
broken and his once beautiful suit bloody, foul and stained with the duckweed from the
pond.

5. She does however sometimes allow the little man to wear it for church on Sundays, but
only after tacking on protective guards to those areas prone to wear and tear such as the cuffs
and elbows, and screwing tissue paper around the buttons.

6. But the expression on his face is one of “such happiness that, had you seen it, you would
have understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming
silver for the duckweed in the pond”.

7. In his “infinite gladness” he forces his way through the garden hedge, ignoring its thorns
and brambles, and makes his way to the duck-pond, which seems to him like a “great bowl
of silver moonshine “.

8. But his mother says that he is to take great care of his new suit and wear it only on “rare
and great occasions”, as it is his wedding suit, and he will never have another one so fine.

9. After wading across the pond he comes to the “high road”, where he encounters a “great
dim moth”, which circles closer and closer until “its velvet wings just brushed his lips”.