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Unit 18 The Necklace Teaching objectives and demands: 1. Words and useful expressions: Necklace, scene, recognize, diamond. Government, ball, palace, jewellery, accept, invitation, franc, after all, continue, call on, pretty, happiness, not…any more, exactly, day and night, pay back, valuable, worth, at the most, match, steal, thief, describe, case, description, belt 2. Grammar: indirect speech 3. Students should know something about a play.4. Students can get the deep understanding of the play.5. Students can retell the main idea of the first part of the play; they can also act it out.6. Language use: Manipulate listening, speaking practice Key points: Words and useful expressions 2. Deep understanding of play Time arrangement: This unit is arrangement to be finished in 5~6 teaching periods, including a unit test. Teaching procedures: Lesson 69 The Necklace Step 1. Revision (1) Check the homework exercises of the previous unit. (2) Revise some jewelry vocabulary by showing the pictures to the students: Ring, earring, necklace, gold, silver, and diamond. Explain more about diamond. The teacher may give the Students some information about it. Tell them how to choose the best diamond simply (5C’s: carat, color, clarity, cut and cost).  Step 2. Presentation Do you know any stories written by Guy de Maupassant?Do you know the story The Lost Necklace written by him?Today we’re going to watch the one-act play, which is based on Maupassant’s best-known story “The Diamond Necklace”. Maupassant (1850—1893) was a well-known French novelist and short-story writer. He was born in Normandy, France, on Aug.5, 1850. As a schoolboy, he was very much interested in literature, and won a prize for one of his poems. So his writing began at an early age, and he became a famous novelist in his thirties. He wrote in the tradition of the 19th century French realism. Most of his works were about everyday life of the simple humble people. As he ha