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Jane Austen

Find articles and lesson plans related to the life and work of Jane Austen for you to use in your teenage English language classroom.

Jane Austen

Find articles and lesson plans related to the life and work of Jane Austen for you to use in your teenage English language classroom.

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This unit is designed to introduce students to the characters and plot of Jane Austen's novel Persuasion.
It provides basic information on the characters in the book and also provides students with opportunities to develop creative writing skills using Jane Austen’s texts as a prompt.

Jane Austen's Persuasion
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Duration
60

This Lesson is designed to introduce students to the characters and plot of Northanger Abbey as well as to introduce students to Austen’s ironic treatment of character and themes. Students have the opportunity to read dialogues in the novel and to do some language work on adjectives using the text extracts. 

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
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Duration
60

This unit is designed to develop students’ understanding of the importance of letters in Austen’s work and in her own life. It is based on Emma, a novel where written communication between the characters has a significant importance on the plot. At the same time it introduces some of the characters and the plot of the novel.

Jane Austen’s Emma
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Duration
90

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