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    The Tomorrow Mirror Extra Ideas

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    The document provides extra classroom activities for the book "The Tomorrow Mirror" by Nicola Prentis. It is divided into sections for before, during, and after reading. The activities include having students compare the main characters and fill out a timeline of events. They also role play conversations between characters and discuss how they would use the mirror's power to see the future. The goal is to engage students and help them comprehend the themes and plot of the story.

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    The document provides extra classroom activities for the book "The Tomorrow Mirror" by Nicola Prentis. It is divided into sections for before, during, and after reading. The activities include having students compare the main characters and fill out a timeline of events. They also role play conversations between characters and discuss how they would use the mirror's power to see the future. The goal is to engage students and help them comprehend the themes and plot of the story.

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    The document provides extra classroom activities for the book "The Tomorrow Mirror" by Nicola Prentis. It is divided into sections for before, during, and after reading. The activities include having students compare the main characters and fill out a timeline of events. They also role play conversations between characters and discuss how they would use the mirror's power to see the future. The goal is to engage students and help them comprehend the themes and plot of the story.

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    The Tomorrow Mirror, Nicola Prentis ISBN 9781447938057 - Extra Ideas for Class

    The Tomorrow Mirror, Nicola Prentis, Penguin Active Reading

    Graded Reader Worksheet – Extra Ideas for Class

    Level 1 Beginner (Book is divided into 3 chapters, 2512 words, 300 headwords)

    Jason looks in the mirror before class and sees a bruise under his eye. Why can't his friends see
    it? Later, a ball hits him in the same eye. Now people can see the bruise – and it hurts. Jason
    doesn’t understand…

    Theme: The responsibilities and dangers that knowledge of the future brings.

    Before Reading

    1 Elicit reasons onto the board or in small groups for why people wear makeup. Now ask students if any of
    those reasons could explain why a school boy might wear makeup. If not, see if they can think of a reason
    for that.

    While Reading

    1 Students create a table that they fill in while reading with one column for Ryan and one for Jason. They
    must write in differences between the two boys. It can be descriptions or actions from the story.

    Later they could write these differences up or exchange them orally with a partner who must finish the
    sentence. E.g.

    Student A: Jason is a good student

    Student B: but Ryan isn't a good/is a bad student.

    2 Teacher collects key words which describe the boys e.g. good student, blond hair. Students have to say
    which character they belong to.

    3 (After Chapter 2) Students draw a timeline of the important events in the book. They should include
    things that happen in the mirror and things that happen in real life. They continue the timeline for Chapter
    3.

    4 (After Chapter 2) Students act out the phone conversation between Jason and his mum on pg 10 when he
    calls to say he's not coming home. Strong students could vary his mum's reaction or how much Jason
    reveals. E.g. Is she worried, uncaring, angry? Imagine he tells her about the mirror or that he acts like he's
    scared.
    The Tomorrow Mirror, Nicola Prentis ISBN 9781447938057 - Extra Ideas for Class

    Post Reading

    1 (After chapter 1) Students write/act out the conversation Jason is having in his head after seeing the
    strange TV quiz in the mirror. He's supposed to be studying so there'd be two voices in his head, one
    freaking out, one trying to be sensible and forget about it. They can start with the line at the bottom of pg
    5: "I'm only seeing strange things because my eye hurts."

    2 (After Chapter 2) Students in pairs come up with their own ways to use the mirror. Book examples are:
    seeing the results of a football match, winning the lottery, cheating on exams. They can then ask another
    pair if they would do that or not (in language they can manage without emphasis on using conditionals as
    the aim is fluency OR provide them with the sentence frame Would you…?)

    3 Alternatively the teacher makes a Find Someone Who questionnaire of things that the mirror could be
    used for and students mingle and ask each other. Might be good for a less imaginative class who'd struggle
    with 2 above.

    4 (After Chapter 3) Students write/act out a conversation between the rescued teacher and Jason's mum.
    Or the call between the school and Ryan's parents to tell them what happened. Or the interview between
    the newspaper reporter and Jason for the exercise on pg 20

    At the end of the book

    1 One student chooses a picture from the book and describes it to the others who have to race to find
    which picture it is.

    2 Play the CD and stop it before key parts and students say what happens next or the next line of dialogue.

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