SONG suggested by JJ: Murder By Numbers - The Police

PASSWORD: Choose one

B&B:

d.                                   A. Solve: 

    The Perfect Murder:

What would be the ingredients of the "perfect murder"? 

Put the following ideas into order of importance. 

(Add ideas of your own if you want to.)

     a) It should be easy to arrange.
b) It should leave no clues.
c) There should be no noise.
d) It should look like suicide.
e) It should take place in a lonely, isolated place.
f) It should be cheap.
g) No violence should be necessary.
h) It should look like an accident.
i) It should be quick.
j) The murderer should have a good alibi

B. Watch VIDEO "50 ways to kill your husband" and add ideas of your own. 

Types of IRONY

Verbal Irony 

Verbal irony is the use of language to express the opposite sentiment than what is expected. The most recognizable form of verbal irony is sarcasm, where the speaker says the opposite of what they mean, often for comedic effect.

Sometimes my dad will serve himself dessert and tell the rest of the family that it is 'disgusting' while simultaneously shoveling it in his mouth. He uses sarcasm, saying it is disgusting when he's clearly enjoying it, to get us to laugh.

In many of her novels, but especially in 'Pride and Prejudice,' Jane Austen uses irony to critique the institution of marriage. The novel begins: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'

The irony is that most of the men in the novel are not actively in 'want of a wife.' Bingley seems to like Elizabeth's sister, Jane, but then drops her rather quickly. George Wickham is a cad, totally afraid of commitment, and Darcy thinks too highly of himself to think any woman is worthy of him.

Situational Irony

Situational irony is when the exact opposite of what you expect to happen happens. Situational irony, like verbal irony, is powered by the incongruity between the expectation and the actual outcome.

Cartoons often use situational irony to get laughs, from a cat chasing a dog (instead of a dog chasing a cat) to a talking cartoon baby with a British accent who is smarter and more devious than any of the adult characters.

Situational irony can be used to create tragedy, too. As readers, we expect a wife to feel grief when she learns her husband has died in an accident. In 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin, Louise Mallard feels relief instead of sorrow when she is told her husband has been killed in a train accident. While her husband treated her well, Louise felt confined by marriage, and his death makes her feel free instead of sad. This is the opposite of what we would expect - situational irony.

Dramatic Irony

Dramatic irony is when a playwright or a novelist creates an ironic situation that only the viewer or reader knows about. Dramatic irony is said to be a type of situational irony that the characters aren't in on yet, which can create tension - the killer hiding somewhere we only know about - or humor - a comedy based upon mistaken identity.

VOCABULARY Focus:

Word	Line	Answer	Definition	Letter
anxiety	8	F	confused, not understanding	A
tranquil	12		a heavy stick with a knob at one end, for hitting someone	B
punctually	17		extremely happy	C
blissful	30		a very strong feeling which guides someone	D
amber	55		in the building	E
bewildered	89		feeling worried	F
instinct	111		comforting someone who is sad, cheering them up	G
club	137		annoyed, irrittated	H
peculiar	161		turned from liquid to solid	I
frantic	206		being kind to visitors	J
grief	206		on time, not late	K
congealed	244		mad, wild	L
on the premises	290		calm, peaceful	M
exasperated	309		extreme sadness after someone dies or goes away	N
consoling	322		strange, unusual	O
hospitality	338		an orange-yellow colour	P

RECIPE: Lamb Curry

Recipe courtesy of Jamie Oliver
Ingredients5 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 (5 1/2 pound) (2 1/2 kilogram) leg of lamb, thinly sliced
2 teaspoons mustard seeds
1 teaspoon fenugreek seeds
3 fresh green chiles, seeded and thinly sliced
1 handful curry leaves
2 thumb-sized pieces fresh ginger, peeled and coarsely grated
3 onions, peeled
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon turmeric
6 tomatoes, chopped
1 to 2 wine glasses water
1 (14-ounce) (400 milliliters) can coconut milk
Salt
Directions
Heat the oil in a pan and sear the lamb. Add the mustard seeds, wait for them to pop, then add the fenugreek seeds, fresh chiles, curry leaves, and ginger. Stir and fry for a few minutes.
Using a food processor, chop the onions and add to the pan. Continue to cook for 5 minutes until the onions are light brown and soft, then add the chili powder and turmeric. Put the tomatoes into the food processor, pulse, and add them to the pan. Cook for a couple of minutes, then add 1 or 2 wine glasses of water and the coconut milk. Simmer until the lamb is tender and the sauce has the consistency of double cream, then season carefully with salt.

VIDEO: 50 ways to kill your husband

PASSWORD:

B&B:

1. Listen to the song LAMB CURRY and write down the recipe ( ingredients and procedure)
2. Finish reading the short story.
3. Get ready for one of the post-reading activities:

Option 1: Mary is on trial for the murder of her husband.  The question is not whether she killed him, but why?  What is your perception of Mary’s guilt?  Was the murder premeditated?   Was she caught up in the moment?  Or was she temporarily insane, therefore not responsible for her actions?  You are a District Attorney and are responsible for this case.  Research the laws which define murder in your country (first degree, second degree, manslaughter, etc.).  Based on the evidence in this story, of what type of homicide is Mary guilty of?   Support your assertions with evidence from the text making sure to use your country’s legal code. 

Option 2: Talk about Mary’s death bed confession or the voice message she leaves to her unborn child explaining what happened that night.  What do you think her perception of events is?  Support any opinions with textual evidence.

Option 3: Watch the Alfred Hitchcock version of Lamb to Slaughter. Was this portrayal similar to the way you perceived the characters as you read the story? How was the portrayal similar or different to your view?  Did viewing the visual text change your interpretation of the story?  Explain why or why not.

Option 4:  Although protagonist Mary Maloney gets away with murder in "Lamb to the Slaughter," you can serve as defense attorney for Maloney and present closing arguments to a jury . Support your claim that Maloney is not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Deliver arguments, explaining how the evidence and/or quotes relate to Maloney's temporary insanity. Convince the jury Mary Maloney is not guilty of the crime.

Option 5: You are a local journalist who has followed Patrick’s death case thoroughly. When invited to the TV show “The Crime’s Camera”, you expose details of your investigation and the clear evidence that Mary is Patrick’s murderer.

SHORT STORY by Roald Dahl

The Upsidedown Mice:

Once upon a time there lived an old man of 87 whose name was Labon. All his life he had been a quiet and peaceful person. He was very poor and very happy.

When Labon discovered that he had mice in his house, he did not at first bother himself greatly about it. But the mice multiplied. They kept right on multiplying and finally there came a time when he could stand it no longer.
"This is too much," he said. "This really is going a bit too far." He hobbled out of the house and down the road to a shop where he bought himself some mousetraps, a piece of cheese and some glue.
When he got home, he put the glue on the underneath of the mousetraps and stuck them to the ceiling. Then he baited them carefully with pieces of cheese and set them to go off.
That night when the mice came out of their holes and saw the mousetraps on the ceiling, they thought it a tremendous joke. They walked around on the floor, nudging each other and pointing up with their front paws and roaring with laughter. After all it was pretty silly, mousetraps on the ceiling.
When Labon came down the next morning and saw that there were no mice caught in the traps, he smiled but said nothing.
He took a chair and put glue on the bottom of its' legs and stuck it upsidedown to the ceiling, near the mousetraps. He did the same with the table, the television set and the lamp. He took everything that was on the floor and stuck it upsidedown on the ceiling. He even put a little carpet up there.
The next night when the mice came out of their holes they were still joking and laughing about what they had seen the night before. But now, when they looked up at the ceiling, they stopped laughing very suddenly.
"Good gracious me!" cried one. "Look up there! There's the floor!"
"Heavens above!" shouted another. "We must be standing on the ceiling."
"I'm beginning to feel a little giddy," said another. "All the blood's going to my head," said another.
"This is terrible!" said a very senior mouse with long whiskers. "This is really terrible! We must do something about it at once."
"I shall faint if I have to stand on my head any longer!" shouted a young mouse.
"Me too!" ---- "I can't stand it!" ---- "Save us! Do something somebody, quick!"
"I know what we'll do," said the very senior mouse. "We'll all stand on our heads, then anyway we'll be the right way up."
Obediently, they all stood on their heads, and after a long time, one by one, they fainted from a rush of blood to their brains.
When Labon came down the next morning the floor was littered with mice. Quickly he gathered them up and popped them all in a basket.
So the thing to remember is this:

Whenever the world seems to be terribly upsidedown, make sure you keep your feet firmly on the ground.

VOCABULARY Focus:

·         sacrificial lamb : /ˌsæk.rɪˈfɪʃ.əl/ someone or something that is given to people in authority and is expected to be harmed or destroyed, especially in order toprevent other people or things from being harmed or destroyed.

·         Lamb of God idiom:  in the Christian religion, a name for Christ

·         mutton dressed as lamb idiom :  a way of describing an older woman who is dressed in a style that is more suitable for a younger woman

•        in two shakes (of a lamb's tail) idiom: (also a couple of shakes) old-fashioned informal very soon: I'll be with you in two shakes.
•          you might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb idiom: UK saying› said to mean that because the punishment for a bad action and an even worse one will be the same, you have no reason not to do the worse one.
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•      Hobble: to walk in an awkward way, usually because the feet or legs are injured
•       To Nudge= elbow a gentle push usually with the elbow
•      giddy:/ˈɡidi/ feeling that one is going to fall over, or that everything is spinning round

Alfred Hitchcock Presents LAMB to the SLAUGHTER. (1958)

Lamb to the Slaughter ( click on this link)

SONG:

PASSWORD: Choose one:)

• If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington

• "He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth." Passage of the Scripture Isaiah 53:7

• For as a lamb is brought to slaughter, so she stands, this innocent, before the king. Geoffery Chaucer in the Man of Law's Tale, 1386

B&B:

• Read page 95 and write down a possible speech from Mary Maloney's hubbie.

• Keep on reading pages 96, 97 and 98.

• Watch video about Roald Dahl's biography and interview and make a summary of it.

The Short Story:

like a lamb to the slaughter (idiom) : If someone does something or goes somewhere like a lamb to the slaughter, they do it without knowing that something bad is going to happen and therefore act calmly and without fightingagainst the situation.

The Author:

Vocabulary Focus:

• Lamb
• Slaughter: (massacre) the killing of many people cruelly and unfairly,especially in a war/ the killing of animals for meat/ an occasion when one team is very easily defeated by the other
• Whiskey
• Sideboard: a piece of furniture with a flat top and cupboards at the bottom, usually used for holding glasses, plates, etc.
• Gravel: small rounded stones, often mixed with sand:
• Tyres: a thick rubber ring, often filled with air, that is fitted around theouter edge of the wheel of a vehicle, allowing the vehicle tostick to the road surface and to travel over the ground moreeasily:
• Sewing
• Bliss
• Sunbather
• Swallow ( v ) to allow to pass down the throat to the stomach
• swallow ( n )a type of insect-eating bird with long wings and a divided tail.
• Swirls to (cause to) move quickly with a twisting, circular movement:
• Shame
• freezer
• elixir
• dove: a kind of pigeon