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Short Description: Superman was created in 1932, by a Canadian artist (Joe Shuster). and an American writer (Jerry Siegel) and first appeared in a. comic strip published by DC ...
Content Inside: S C H O L A S T I C R E A D E R S A RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS! FREE S U P E R M A N R E T U R N S E X T R A Level 3 This level is suitable for students who have been learning English for at least three years and up to four years. It corresponds with the Common European Framework level B1. Suitable for users of TEAM magazine. SYNOPSIS appeared in comic books, radio serials, television programmes, Superman has been away from Earth for five years. He films, newspaper strips and video games. answered a call for help from his home planet, Krypton, and Superman Returns is the fifth Superman film. The popular TV almost died there. Now he returns to Earth and re-appears as series, Smallville, is about Clark Kent and Lex Luthor growing up Clark Kent again. He returns to Metropolis to work for his old together in the town of Smallville. newspaper, the Daily Planet, and meets his former love, Lois Superman Returns focuses on the fight between good Lane. Now she has a new man in her life, Richard, and a five- (Superman) and bad (Luthor). In this story, Superman is not year old son, Jason. always so super and so perfect. He doesn't know where he Lex Luthor and his friends are in Metropolis too. Luthor plans belongs, on Krypton or on Earth, and he wonders if he should to build a new world and destroy the old one. He causes some help people or not. In the end, good does not completely win mysterious blackouts in Metropolis and Lois goes to investigate over bad: Superman saves the planet but Luthor escapes. but she and Jason are caught by Luthor. Luthor steals Superman's crystal from the Fortress of Solitude and a meteorite with MEDIA LINKS kryptonite from the museum in Metropolis. He uses the crystal and kryptonite to create a new land and causes a huge DVD: The film of Superman Returns is available on DVD. earthquake. Superman saves Lois and the world. CD: A recording of Superman Returns is available to accompany the Scholastic ELT reader. Internet: Look at the official website at www.warnerbros.co.uk THE BACK STORY and find out about the original comic strip at www.dccomics.com. Superman was created in 1932, by a Canadian artist (Joe Shuster) Books: This reader is adapted from Superman Returns the and an American writer (Jerry Siegel) and first appeared in a Junior Novel, by Little, Brown. comic strip published by DC Comics. Since then, he has HOW TO USE YOUR SCHOLASTIC MEDIA READER Choosing and motivating Glossary Is this the right story for your class? Have they heard of Superman? Go to New Words! on the inside back cover of the reader. Have they seen any of the films? Do they want to read Superman Translate the words with the class or get students to find Returns? If not, choose another book! Motivate students by telling meanings at home. them some background information and by reading aloud the Book exercises first page of the story with dramatic atmosphere and emotion. Show students the Self-Study Activities on pages 62-64. These Organising are divided into sections. They complete some exercises before Plan a class reading schedule. Decide how many pages to set they read a section, and some after. for reading each week. Select exercises from the back of the Feedback reader and extra activities from this resource sheet to go with each section of reading. (All answers on page 4.) Have class feedback sessions each week. Talk and ask about the story so far. Get students to ask each other questions. Check Using the DVD resource sheet exercise answers with the whole class. Try to get the English language version DVD (with or without Fact Files subtitles) of the film. Watch it yourself first in case there are scenes or language that are not suitable for your class. Show it After the story, there are 4 Fact Files. Set these as self-study or in chunks of, say, 20 minutes in parallel with the class reading use for whole class work. The files explore the themes of the schedule. Alternatively, show the whole film in two sessions, story and relevant cultural contexts with interactive elements. perhaps over two lunchtimes when the whole class can get Project ideas are on page 4. together. Ask students to identify and discuss any differences What did they think? between the book and the film. There are other ideas for using Get everyone to do a written or verbal review of the book. the DVD in class on page 4. Compare opinions. Will they read more Superman or Smallville Using the CD stories? Will they go and see the film? Did you like it? Let us Students can listen and follow in their books. They can listen know at readers@link2English.com and then read. They can read and then listen. All these options will enhance their understanding and speed up their reading. ©Scholastic Ltd Teacher's notes
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