DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 147
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 3
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Why is Bettina so excited about the day she sold the paintings? (It was a big day for her; she
became successful after she sold them.)
What does she have to prove that? (She has a photo of that day.)
How did Bettina’s gallery become successful? (Many people came to her gallery.)
What does Bettina show Tom and Kate? (the diary and the photo)
Why do you think Tom and Kate want to take the photo to Jack and Amy? (Accept all logical
answers.)
What do you think is MoCa’s SMS about? (Accept all logical answers)
6. Let’s Practice! (page 105)
Ask and say:
Curriculum:
Look at the text in front of you; what kind of a text is
SI: Students will interact for
it? (a diary entry)
purposes such as giving directions,
Who wrote it? (Bettina)
making requests.
When did she write it? (on the day she met the kids)
Complete the missing information in your
notebooks.
When they have finished go over the answers with them.
Answer Key:
1. a mystery
2. Tom and Kate
3. picture
4. Someone stole two paintings that belong to the museum?
5. these pictures/ those paintings
6. them
7. Mr. Bates
8. photo
Ask:
What does Bettina say about the day she sold the paintings? (It was a special day.)
Why does she want to go home? (to find her old diary)
7.
Let’s Read! (Track 31) (page 106)
Curriculum:
AI: Students will understand the
general meaning, main ideas, and
sequence of events in the text and
use this knowledge as needed.
Now have them look at the photo and the diary entry.
Ask:
What can we see in the photo? (Bettina with
William Bates, with the paintings. Bates’s daughter
is there, with her dog.)
When was the diary entry written? (1985/Wednesday,October 30th ,1985)
How did she feel, happy or sad? (both)
Why was she happy? (her art gallery sold two paintings)
Why was she sad? (They were her favourite paintings.)
Which two paintings did she sell? (Mark Chagall’s and Andy Warhol’s)
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