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     “THE NECKLACE” AND “THE HAND-PUPPET” COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS         “How strangeness enters our lives” A woman with no expectations from life, feeling isolated from her family, her home, even from her own body goes through a psychological crisis after the morning her daughter shows up with a scary hand-puppet in the story of ‘the Hand-Puppet’. On the other side, there is another pretty and charming woman in the story of ‘the Necklace’ unsatisfied with her life, considers she deserves a better, luxurious life. She suffers the consequences of her obsession with looking wealthy and attractive when she loses the necklace which she borrows from her neighbor. Two different short stories which I expected to be children’s story because of their names have shocked me with their endings and psychological analysis. The use of complex words and going deep in characters’ minds shows that Guy de Maupassant and Joyce Carol Oates expect the implied readers are mature audiences of average intelligen

PARTS OF THE HOUSE    It's a listening and coloring activity for young learners (A1 starters) . It's a student directed activity which is accuracy oriented. Students need to get the meaning accurately to be able to colour the parts told in the audio. Procedure:    Distribute a handout which includes a house drawing to each student. Students are supposed to listen to the audio and colour the house parts accordingly. You should give clear instructions that they are going to listen the audio twice. If necessary, you can play the audio for the third time. Do not forget to give an example right after you give the instructions. Then play the audio and stop at the end of first part. The audio tells us to colour the bed purple. By pointing at the picture, tell your students “Can you see the purple bed? This is an example. Now, you listen and colour.”. Keep playing the audio. Students colour the house parts by listening to the audio. Then, check the answers with the whole class.