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An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls. J.B.Priestley. Lesson 4. Structure Act 1. To analyse and understand the timing of the Inspector’s arrival in Act 1. (where are you on the arrow?). ALL Will be able to recognise the key events in Act 1. MOST

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An Inspector Calls

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  1. An Inspector Calls J.B.Priestley Lesson 4

  2. Structure Act 1 To analyse and understand the timing of the Inspector’s arrival in Act 1. (where are you on the arrow?) ALL Will be able to recognise the key events in Act 1. MOST will be able to explain what the arrival of the Inspector suggests. SOME Will be able to analyse why Priestley has structured the arrival in this way.

  3. Starter - Challenge yourself! ALL will be able summarise the key events in Act 1 in 60 words. MOST will be able to summarise the key events in Act 1 in 40 words. SOME will be able to summarise the key events in Act 1 in 20 words. EXTENSION: summarise the role Birling or Sheila has in the death Eva Smith in 20 words.

  4. Task: Mr Birling Birling: (solemnly) But this is the point. I don’t want to lecture you two young fellows again. But what so many of you don’t seem to understand now, when things are so much easier, is that a man has to make his won way – has to look after himself – and his family too, of course, when he has one – and so long as he does that he won’t come to much harm. But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense. But take my word for it, you youngsters – and I’ve learnt in the good hard school of experience – that a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own – and – (We hear the sharp ring of a front door bell. Birling stops to listen.) Re-read the above extract. Now answer the following questions in your blue books.

  5. Remember to EXPLAIN! Task: Mr Birling Questions: • What does Mr Birling believe in? Capitalism or Socialism? • What evidence is there in the extract to suggest he believes this? Highlight/Underline. • How do you think a modern day audience feel about Mr Birling and his beliefs? • How do you think a 1940s audience would have felt about the character of Mr Birling and his beliefs? Why? • How do you think the following (contemporary) people would have felt about Mr Birling and his beliefs; Why? : • Working class audience living at the same time as Birling. • Middle class audience living at the same time as Birling. • Upper class audience living at the same time as Birling. Write your answers around your extract.

  6. Mr Birling believes in…………………….. A lower class audience would feel… Birling: (solemnly) But this is the point. I don’t want to lecture you two young fellows again. But what so many of you don’t seem to understand now, when things are so much easier, is that a man has to make his won way – has to look after himself – and his family too, of course, when he has one – and so long as he does that he won’t come to much harm. But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense. But take my word for it, you youngsters – and I’ve learnt in the good hard school of experience – that a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own – and – (We hear the sharp ring of a front door bell. Birling stops to listen.) A middle class audience would feel… We know this because he says….. A higher class audience would feel… A 1940s audience would feel…. A modern audience would feel…..

  7. Modern Audience Middle Class Audience 1940s Audience Upper Class Audience Lower Class Audience

  8. Inspector Goole What belief does Priestley use the Inspector to represent? CAPITALISM? SOCIALISM? or How does the timing of the Inspector’s arrival suggest that Priestley is using him to represent this particular view?

  9. Main Activities ALL will choose a character and write a paragraph discussing what first impressions a modern audience would get of him/her. MOST will choose a character and a quotation from the play that best sums up this character. Write an explanation of what this quote tells us about the character. SOME will write a paragraph explaining, in detail, what Priestley’s intention was by including the extracted speech by Birling in the play (i.e. what is he telling us about Birling AND high class at the time?) and by timing the Inspector’s arrival in the middle of the speech. EXTENSION choose another of the above tasks to complete.

  10. Structure Act 1 To analyse and understand the timing of the Inspector’s arrival in Act 1. (where are you on the arrow?) ALL Will be able to recognise the key events in Act 1. MOST will be able to explain what the arrival of the Inspector suggests. SOME Will be able to analyse why Priestley has structured the arrival in this way.

  11. Begin reading ACT 2

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