The unit uses as main resource the short story ‘The landlady’, by the Welsh
fiction writer Roald Dahl, first published in 1959 in The New Yorker. In this story, as
In the unit, participant teachers are asked to perform a series of paper-and-pencil
tasks, which are to be solved individually, in small groups, or in the whole class.
Theoretical reflection on those tasks is conducted in order to discuss the NOS model
presented above. The structure of the unit is as follows: