HomeUnit 2 Unwillingly on HolidayBackground InformationBR_MAINExtended ReadingWarm-up QuestionsFree DiscussionDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingHomeUnit 2 Unwillingly on HolidayBefore Reading_1.1Warm-up Questions1. Is going on holiday generally a pleasant or a painful experience? Going on holiday is generally a pleasant experience. The title of the text, however, indicates that it can sometimes be otherwise. The readers interest and curiosity are aroused by the title at once.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingHomeUnit 2 Unwillingly on HolidayBefore Reading_1.22. Can you guess who might be going on holiday and where the person might be going on holiday in the text?3. Why might the person be going on holiday unwillingly?Warm-up QuestionsDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingHomeUnit 2 Unwillingly on HolidayBefore Reading_2_1.1Background InformationPhilippa Pearce (1920-2006)Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading one of the finest childrens writers of her generation“People think how carefree children are. Children just have different cares, and cares particularly which they dont want to articulate.” Philippa Pearce1. About the writerHomeUnit 2 Unwillingly on HolidayBefore Reading_2_1.2Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingPhilippa Pearce is considered one of the outstanding childrens writers of the twentieth century. Critics praise her genius in seeing the world through a childs eye and tapping into the fear, isolation and strong emotions of childhood. Philippa Pearce spent her childhood in Great Shelford, a village near Cambridge, and was the youngest of four children of a flour-miller and corn-merchant. The village, the river, and the countryside in which she lived appear more or less plainly in Minnow on the Say, and Toms Midnight Garden. HomeUnit 2 Unwillingly on HolidayPhilippa later went on to study English and history at Cambridge University. She worked for the BBC as a scriptwriter and producer, and then in publishing as an editor. She has written many books including the modern classic, Toms Midnight Garden, for which she won the Carnegie Medal. She has been awarded the OBE for her service to childrens literature. Sadly, Philippa died in 2006, at the age of 86.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingBefore_Reading_2_1.3HomeUnit 2 Unwillingly on HolidayBefore Reading_2_1.42. About the textThe text is taken from Philippa Pearces book Toms Midnight Garden, which was published in 1958 and was an instant success that soon took on classic status.The novel starts with young Tom, down from suburbia to stay with his childless aunt and uncle in East Anglia in a flat converted from part of a once fine old country house. He is there because his brother at home has measles, but an otherwise boring stay is transformed once he starts dreaming every night about entering a beautiful garden. There he encounters Hattie, a child orphan living in late Victorian times who often seems as lonely and bored as he himself. They make friends and go on trips together after Tom has encouraged Hattie to reach beyond the garden walls into the world outside.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingHomeUnit 2 Unwillingly on HolidayBefore Reading_2_1.5The story ends with the nearly adult Hattie disappearing from his dreams altogether, leaving Tom now wanting to go home and resume his life there. But, on the final pages, Hattie is revealed as the ancient landlady still living in the upstairs flat in the house of her childhood in which Tom has also been staying. The original garden, however, has long been built over. The moment when Hattie and Tom recognize each other and embrace makes one of the most moving endings in all childrens fiction.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingHomeUnit 2 Unwillingly on HolidayBefore Reading_3_1Extended Reading Listen to the following information for a better understanding of the text. While listening, please fill in the blanks with the information you hear.Directions :Philippa Pearce was the youngest of four children of a flour-miller. The family lived in the Mill House on the upper reaches of the River Cam. “Although there wasnt much cash we had lots of space,” remembers Philippa, “We had a , we , we with net and with rod, we skated on flooded water meadows On Saturday afternoons, we used to creep into the mill by a secret way and play among the bulging sacks, and hide.”canoe _fished_swam_Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingHomeUnit 2 Unwillingly on HolidayBefore Reading_3_2Philippa has . During a long spell in hospital with TB, she those memories to create her first book Minnow on the Say. “It was a hot summer a