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Cambridge English Readers LEVEL 1 Lesson Plan
Hotel Casanova
Aims 7 Ask students to read Extracts 1±5. They are all from
. To introduce students to the key elements of stories Level 1 stories. Which two are from romances? How do
in the romance genre. they know?
. To focus students on the main characters. Answers: Extracts 2 and 5 are romances. Extract 2 is
. To stimulate students to read the book. from Next Door to Love by Margaret Johnson, and
Extract 5 is from Hotel Casanova.
1 Write `Hotel Casanova' on the board or overhead and tell
the students it's the title of the book they're going to read. Words which help: boyfriend, new men, good-looking,
Do they know where it might be set? Elicit or tell them marry
it's Venice. Extracts 1, 3 and 4 are all thrillers: John Doe (Antoinette
2 Ask students to look at a picture or pictures of Venice Moses), Parallel (Colin Campbell) and Just like a Movie
depicting typical scenes. (If you can't ®nd suitable ones, (Sue Leather).
use the picture on the front of the book.) In pairs or 8 Focus students on Hotel Casanova again. Ask them to
small groups give students a few minutes to think of four look at the list of people in the story on the handout
or ®ve things they know about Venice. This will help you opposite. From the list of people in the story, focus on
to pre-teach some of the vocabulary in the book. Dino. What do we know from the blurb about him? Ask
3 Take feedback. students to read Extracts 6±8 and to say whether the
following statements are true or false.
Suggestions: in Europe, in northern Italy, has canals,
gondolas, St Mark's square True or False?
a Dino worked in the reception of a hotel.
4 Ask students what kind of story it might be, ®rst of all
b He hated his job.
just from the context ± Venice ± and then from the Blurb
c He made a lot of money.
(see handout opposite). Establish that it's a romance. Ask
d He sometimes offered the guests a drink of wine.
students if they think that it's a good setting for romance.
e He had a room in the hotel.
Why? Why not?
f Dino's birthday was on 21 April.
5 Ask students if they like romances. Why? Why not? Is it g Dino's plan was to marry when he was twenty-six years
just girls who like romance? Or do boys like it too? Ask old.
them to talk about their favourite romantic books and
9 Pair students up to check answers.
®lms. What makes a really good romantic story? If you
know it well, use Romeo and Juliet as an example, or 10 Take class feedback.
another romance that you know. Put their ideas on the Answers
board. a True
6 Discuss with students what kind of thing they would b False
expect to read about in a romance. Possible things to c False
elicit are: boy meets girl, girl meets boy, love triangle, d True
something getting in the way of love. e True
Optional extras f False (20th)
a Ask the students to look at the People in the Story list g True
on the handout opposite. Can they predict what might 11 Focus the students on the last line of Extract 8: `The
happen from the list of people? woman with the long dark hair came and stayed at Hotel
b If the class is very good at creating stories, ask them to Grand, and everything changed.' Ask them what they
work in small groups and make up a short story from think changed?
the character list. Ask them to tell their stories to the 12 If you have the books, hand them out and start reading to
whole class. ®nd out.
Note: These are both activities that are intended to whet
the students' appetite for reading the book. The keys are
to keep them fairly short, and don't tell them what really
happens in the story at this stage!
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Hotel Casanova
Blurb Extract 4
Dino was 21 and worked in a hotel in the beautiful city of How could I kill Carrie? In the movie it was easy. In the
Venice. The women who came to the hotel liked to talk to movie the husband was old and sick But Carrie wasn't old
him. Dino was kind to them. But he knew what he wanted. and she wasn't sick. She was young. It was dif®cult. `Wait and
`When I'm 26,' he thought, Ì'm going to meet a woman, the see,' I said to myself. `Wait for an answer.' My life became
woman I want to marry.' more and more dif®cult.
Then Dino met Carla and . . .
Extract 5
People in the Story Women liked Dino. Well, why not? He was good-looking,
Dino Bracco: A young man who works at the Hotel Grand with dark curly hair and beautiful brown eyes. And he was
in Venice. nice. The ones who came to the hotel alone liked to talk to
Carla Maretti: A woman who comes to the hotel. him. Dino was kind to them. But women were not in Dino's
Maria Luca: A waitress at the hotel. plans. Not for the moment. `When I'm twenty-six,' he
Giovanni Tardelli: Dino's boss. thought, Ì'll meet a woman, the woman I want to marry.'
Beppo Rossi: A young man who works with Dino at the
Hotel Grand. Extract 6
Dino liked his work at the reception. When guests came in
Extract 1 he said hello to them and he asked, `Sir, madam, would you
Òk,' said Detective Jenny Brown, `Thank you. But you're like a glass of Soave, one of Venice's famous wines?' He took
right about John Roberts. He looks like anyone. He doesn't their credit cards. When they weren't from Italy, he took their
look dangerous. But he is, he's very dangerous.' passports. Then he asked the boy to take their bags to their
Ì hope we can help you ®nd John Roberts,' said Susan. room. He helped the guests. `Yes, madam, of course,
`He's out there, somewhere. Someone knows him.' madam.' Dino's boss, Giovanni Tardelli, thought he was a
`Yes,' said Jenny. `But we must ®nd him before he ®nds good boy.
someone else. We must ®nd him before another person dies.'
Extract 7
Extract 2 Dino worked very long hours and he didn't make much
Janet always wanted me to go out and meet new men. money. His room at the back of the hotel was very small. It
`You need to go out, Stella,' she often told me, `you need to just had a small bed, a table and light, and somewhere for his
meet new people. New men.' clothes.
But I didn't want to meet new men, and I didn't want a But Dino didn't think about the long hours, the little
boyfriend. I knew boyfriends didn't always make you happy. money and the small room. He liked his job at the Hotel
My last boyfriend, James, didn't make me happy. Grand. And it was only the start. He knew what he wanted.
Janet looked at me. `You're thinking about James,' she said. Every night he wrote about the day in his little black book.
Janet often knows what I'm thinking. `Don't think about Then he looked at his plans. He liked to read them every day.
him,' she said, `He wasn't any good for you. But you mustn't
think all men are bad. Your neighbour looks nice.' Extract 8
The night of 20 April, his twenty-®rst birthday, Dino sat in
Extract 3 his little room and looked at his little black book. He looked
It was late and it was getting dark. Max sat in the bedroom of at his plans. Èverything is good,' he thought. But on 21
his ¯at. He lived in London and the noise of cars outside April, something changed his plans. The woman with the
never stopped. But now he didn't hear the noise. He sat on long dark hair came and stayed at Hotel Grand, and
his bed. There was a gun on the bed beside him. The gun everything changed.
was still warm. Max's face was very white and he didn't feel
well. He never felt well after he killed someone.
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