4th Grade Unit 1 New Friends Storytelling

Grade: 4^th

Unit 1: New Friends

Topic: Snow White and her new friends

 

Aims:

Linguistic awareness:

Level:

 The vocabulary point: good morning/afternoon/evening/night

The grammar point: is

Literary devices:

Repetition:  Hello/Hi!

Dialogue: A: What is your name?

                  B: My name is _______. What is your name?

       A: My name is_________. Nice to meet you.

       B: Nice to meet you too.

Psychological awareness:

Content/ subject matter: It is relevant to my pupils’ interests. It is amusing and memorable.

Illustrations/ layout: The illustrations synchronize with the text and support children’s understanding. They are appropriate to my pupils’ age. They are attractive and colorful.

Motivation: It will develop my students’ imagination.

Cognitive awareness:

Educational potential: The story can link with other subjects across the curriculum. The story and related activities accommodates different learning styles and brings into play different intelligences.

Social awareness:

Values: It will provide opportunities for children work together, take turns, share?

Pre-story Activity:

Materials: Pictures on presentation
Its link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzWv66CyTUAuNk5GOXZaNUdSa1E/edit?usp=sharing  

Flashcard games to learn greetings: The teacher shows the pictures,and describes the pictures. For example; the sun is rising up, so it is morning. What do we say in the mornings? We say "Good morning". The sun is in the middle, so it is afternoon. What do we say in the afternoons? We say "Good afternoon". The sun is setting, so it is evening. What do we say in the evening? We say "Good evening". The sun has gone and the moon has come, so it is night. What do we say in the night? We say "Good night".The students look at the pictures on the flashcard. Thus, the students learn chunks on the flashcards.

While-storytelling Activity:

Materials: The story and presentation

Ppt presentation's link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzWv66CyTUAud2p4VTFCa29JRzg/edit?usp=sharing

The teacher tells the story and the students look at the presentation.

Listen and repeat: The students listen and repeat vocabularies related to greetings “good morning/afternoon/evening/night”.

The story: Snow White and Her New Friends

            Once upon a time, a princess lives in a land. Her name is Snow White. She is very beautiful and good-tempered. Her father is dead. She has a step-mother. Her step-mother talks to her magic mirror every day. She asks the mirror: “Is there anyone else in the world more than beautiful than I am?”  The magic mirror says: “The most beautiful person in the world is Snow White”. She is angry at this situation.

            One day Snow White gets up in the morning while the sun is rising up. She says to her step-mother: “Good morning”. Her step-mother says to her: “Good morning”. Then Snow White goes out. She comes across three animals: a rabbit, a small antelope and a gopher. The rabbit says: “Hello! What is your name?”. Snow White is a little afraid, but she answers: “Hi! My name is Snow White. What is your name?”. The rabbit answers: “My name is Peter Rabbit. Nice to meet you.” The small antelope says: “My name is Cindy Antelope. Nice to meet you.”. The gopher says: “My name is Teddy Gopher. Nice to meet you.”. She says: “Nice to meet you, too”. Snow White, Peter Rabbit, Cindy Antelope, and Teddy Gopher play together. When it is afternoon, they go to their home and say to each other: “Good afternoon”. The rabbit, small antelope and gopher go to forest. Snow White goes to palace. Her step-mother is very angry with snow white. She wants to kill Snow White. In the evening, her step-mother takes Snow White into the forest and leaves her. Snow White doesn’t know what to do. Her new friends, the rabbit, the small antelope and the gopher come to her and say to her: “Good evening”. She says to them: “Good evening” Her new friends take Snow White to the palace. And they catch the step-mother and take her into the forest. Her friends take Snow White to her bed. And then, they say to her “Good night”. She says to them: “Good night” and she sleeps.

            Post-storytelling Activity:
             Role-Play: The teacher asks the students to act out the story. S/he makes them form a group of six students. First of the students in the group is Snow White, second one is her stepmother, third one is the magic mirror, fourth one is Peter Rabbit, fifth one is Cindy Antelope, and last one is Teddy Gopher. While they are acting out the story, they can change or adapt the story according to themselves.