Objectives: to develop critical thinking; to improve pupils’ reading skills STEP 1: Ask the pupils to read the story “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Stone”one more time.
STEP 2: Ask questions for understanding, for example:
1) Describe Mr and Mrs Dursley.
2) Did they have children?
3) What was Mr Dursley?
4) When did something unusual start and how was it?
5) How did the Dursleys behave toward the Potters?
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6) What were people in cloaks celebrating?
7) Why did Albus Dumbledore decide that the boy should live with his
aunt and uncle?
8) Who did Hagrid bring in his arms? etc.
STEP 3: Have a class discussion on the topic: “Is it right to behave like Mr and
Mrs Dursley about relatives? Why/Why not?”