Viewing, Listening & Speaking Contents Lead-in Matching Game Brainstorming Watching and Discussing Acting It Out Fun Time Oral Assignment

Rainbow Studio Take a picture for you This program creates a sketch of your face according to the information entered by you regarding your facial features

1. Pre-reading Activity 2. While-reading Activity 3. Post-reading Activity

Pre-reading Activities Discuss the following questions （1). What are some of the thingsyou think children and theirparents might have different ideasabout?

Pre-reading Activities Background Information 1. Manhattan is a suburb of New York. 2. Brooklyn is a suburb of New York. 3. Ebbets Field is the stadium built by and named after Charlie Ebbets, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. The first game played in this former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers took place in 1938. The Dodgers no longer play for Brooklyn. For more information, visit

Pre-reading activities While-reading activities Post-reading activities

Stage 1: Pre-reading Activities Stage 2: While-Reading Activities Stage 3: Post-reading Activities

Pre-reading activity Background Information Let-in Activity

1. Pre-reading Activity 2. While-reading Activity 3. Post-reading Activity

Ⅰ. Background Information 1. Richard Wagner (1813-1883), the greatest composer of German opera, made a major addition to the nature of opera through his writings about and the creation of music drama. Music drama combines singing, orchestra, verse, story, drama and spectacle. Wagner's works include the \The Ring of the Nibelung\ (1853-1874), a set of four operas based on historical German stories. For an introduction to Wagner as well as other resources on the Internet, please visit