LITERARY GENRES

LITERARY GENRES refer to books that share similar elements and themes.
Each genre contains subgenres, which are smaller and more specific
versions of a genre. There are 5 main genres:
-Poetry
-Fiction
 Mystery (main character usually a detective or a private investigator that solves the mystery
with the reader)
 Fantasy (imaginary settings, beings, and universes that don’t exist in the real world)
 Horror (suspense and tension to scare the reader)
 Science Fiction (Sci-Fi) include space exploration, time travel, futuristic species

-Nonfiction
 Autobiography (personal narrative of one’s life)
 Biography (narrative about a person, written by someone else)
 Essay (text that elaborates a topic or idea after doing research about it)

-Drama
-Prose
1) Choose the correct option
1- What is a literary genre?
a- books used in education
b- books used to entertain
c- categories of books that share common elements and themes
2- When someone writes their own life story:
a- Horror
b- Biography
c- Autobiography
3- Stories with aliens, advanced technology and futuristic species:
a- Fantasy
b- Nonfiction
c- Science-Fiction (Sci-fi)
4- This main genre contains autobiography, biography and essay as
subgenres:
a- Poetry
b- Drama
c- Non-fiction
 2) Complete the crossword and find the hidden word

3) Think of a story you like, what genre is it?

HOMEWORK: Bring a copy of your favourite story’s front page

(printed or drawn)
(HIDDEN WORD: 6TO C IS THE BEST, ABOVE SCI-FI) (AK)
ANSWER KEY
 LESSON 2

Activation: LESSON 1 CORRECTION

1. Introduction to stories components

Character: Depending on the nature of the story, characters are most

often people or animals.

Setting: A story’s setting refers to “where” and the “when” of a story.

Plot: The plot relates to the events that happen in a story. Usually divided
into sub-elements: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and
resolution. It is the what of the story. The plot usually begins with a
problem and ends in the story’s resolution.

Conflict:  This conflict can be considered a challenge or problem that

drives the story’s action.

(ALOUD) GIVE EXAMPLES BASED ON YOUR FAVOURITE

BOOKS / TV SHOWS

Examples of stories:

(FICTION)

Fantasy

SCIENCE FICTION (SCI-FI)

 HORROR

(NONFICTION)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY / BIOGRAPHY
1) Identify the story element. Write Ch for character, S for setting and P
for plot

A rainy day

Peter Parker

Hansel and Gretel were lost. And it was late

Hawkins

Nancy Wheeler

The lions were behind us

In the woods

Nathan Drake

A long time ago

They lived happily forever and ever

2) (I’LL ASK STUDENTS IN RANDOM ORDER TO TELL ME

WHAT GENRE/SUBGENRE THEIR STORY IS AND ITS
COMPONENTS)
FAVOURITE GENRE / SUBGENRE VOTING (winning
genre/subgenre will be the main focus of this year’s project)

HOMEWORK
3) Paste your story’s front page. List as many elements you can recall
from your favourite story. (At least one for each story element,
character, setting, conflict and plot)

LESSON 3

LAST CLASS CORRECTION (read aloud)

(orally) guess about the story, looking at the front page
Before reading activities on the book
Reading aloud 1/2/3
SHORT S. PRESENT INTRODUCTION using the story

Homework: Identify story components from pages 1-2/3

LESSON 4

Lesson 3 correction + suggestion to bring a dictionary and start

using a glossary.

Read aloud 4,5,6

Identify present simple sentences and story components orally

Homework: Activities on the book pg 7-8

CHAPTER 1 / 2 STORY ELEMENTS

GENRE / SUBGENRE

READING QUESTIONS

1. What genre is the story?

2. When does the story take place?
 3. Where does the story take place?
4. Who is the main character?
5. What does she do? Who does she work for?
6. Who does Rosie listen to?
7. Who is Ms. Yardley?
8. Who is Lezardo?
9. Where do Ms. Yardley and Lezardo meet? When?
10. Why do Ms. Yardley and Lezardo meet in River Thames?
11. What is the painting’s worth?
12. Where does Lezardo go? Whose house is that?
13. How does Lezardo get in the house?
14. Who is Pierre Valmy?
15. What does Lezardo do to Valmy?
16. Is Hans Pierre Valmy’s servant?
17. How does Hans go after Lezardo?
2. Choose the correct option

What genre is the story?

a- Fiction
b- Nonfiction
c- Horror

Where does the story take place?

a- River Thames
b- London
c- Venice

What does Rosie Doyle do?

She is…

a- A journalist
b- An art dealer
c- A servant
Where do Ms. Yardley and Lezardo meet? When?
a- River Thames, on Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock
b- River Thames, on a cold February afternoon
c- Venice, on Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock

What is the paintings worth?

a- Fifty thousand euros

b- Half a million dollars
c- A million dollars

Where does Lezardo go?

A. Venice
B. Switzerland
C. On the mountains, Switzerland.

Whose house does Lezardo visit?

A. Hans
B. Julia Yardley
C. Pierre Valmy

Who is Hans?

A. Pierre Valmy’s servant

B. A thief
C. The painting’s owner

How does Hans go after Lezardo?

a- By river bus
b- By plane
c- By snowmobile

TRUE / FALSE

A. Rosie wants to find lots of money

B. Julia and Lezardo talk on a train
C. Ms Yardley buys books
D. Pierre Valmy is a journalist
E. Valmy lives in Venice
F. Lezardo works for Valmy
G. Valmy is asleep when Lezardo goes into the room
H. Hans goes after Lezardo by snowmobile

CHAPTER 3

Answer the following questions. (SPEAKING & WRITING)

1. Does Lezardo escape from Hans?

2. How does Lezardo escape from Hans?
3.
4. What is Rosie doing in her London home?
5. Who does Rosie see on TV?
6. What is the artist’s name that Valmy mentions?
7. When does Rosie go to the police? Before or after she gets her big
story?
8. Where does Rosie go?
9. How does Rosie go to Venice?
10. What kind of boat does Rosie use?
11. What does Rosie do in Venice?

TRUE OR FALSE

A. Lezardo doesn’t escape from Hans.

B. Lezardo escapes skiing between the trees.
C. The snowmobile crashes into a wall.
D. Rosie is eating breakfast in her Venice home.
E. Valmy appears on TV.
F. Valmy mentions a drawing by Van Gogh.
G. Rosie goes to Venice by gondola.
H. Rosie gets off the gondola at the Rialto Bridge at 3 o’clock.
I. Rosie sits in a café and has a coffee.

EXTRACT FROM THE STORY:

A- 2 P SIMPLE SENTENCES
B- 2 P CONTINUOUS SENTENCES
C- 2 PLOT EXAMPLES
D- 2 SETTING EXAMPLES

---- READING PRACTICE-----

ORDER THE SEQUENCES IN THE STORY

Pierre Valmy talks on the TV

The snowmobile crashes into the trees

Rosie goes to Venice

Rosie is eating breakfast in her London home

Lezardo sees some trees in front of him

Rosie has a coffee and waits

CHAPTER 4

1) ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

A- Who arrives at the Rialto Bridge first?

B- Who does Rosie see first?
 C- What is Lezardo doing behind a wall?
D- What does Lezardo give to Julia Yardley?
E- What does the package contain?
F- Where does Julia go?
G- What does Lezardo do to Rosie?
H- Where does Julia recognize Rosie from?
I- Does Rosie tell the truth to Julia and Lezardo?

2) True or false (Justify)

a- Rosie arrives first at the Rialto Bridge

b- Lezardo is hidden watching Rosie
c- Julia Yardley sees Rosie behind Lezardo
d- Lezardo gives Julia Yardley a gun
e- Rosie grabs Lezardo’s phone

3) Order the sequences

a- Lezardo threatens Rosie

b- Julia arrives at the Rialto Bridge
c- Rosie sees Julia
d- Lezardo gives Ms. Yardley a package
e- Julia recognises Rosie
f- Lezardo pushes Rosie into a dark alley

4) Extract from the story

a- 3 Present Simple sentences

b- 3 Present Continuous sentences
c- 3 Plot examples
d- 3 Setting examples
e- 3 Prepositions of place

5) Choose the correct option

Lezardo gives Julia Yardley a…

a- Package
b- Gun
c- Pone

Julia recognises Rosie from…

a- Venice
b- London office
c- River bus

The package contains...

a- Picasso’s drawing
b- Fifty thousand Euros
c- A gun
MID-YEAR PROJECT (BASED ON CHAPTERS 1 TO 3 – THE
BIG STORY)