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Teaching Storytelling

Grade: 7

Unit: 14 (ecology)

Aims:   Students will learn the specific features of animals

              Students will describe animals (shape, size, weight, etc.)

              Students will use some comparative and superlative adjectives (taller, tallest; faster, fastest; smaller, smallest, etc.)

Materials: PPT presentations including animals and adjectives, worksheets including crossword puzzle (about adjectives) and jumbled words (animal names)

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BziFeC1ziqrad0lmSEJ4NzlEMGs/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BziFeC1ziqraNzhrZFdsbDA5Ykk/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BziFeC1ziqraR3RELWU0aHdieG8/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BziFeC1ziqracXR6U2M0bFpSbEE/edit?usp=sharing

Language point: Comparative and superlative adjectives

Procedure:

            Teacher starts the lesson by asking general questions about animals. Do you like animals? , Which animal do you like most? , etc. then s/he shows a presentation about animals. Then s/he shows another presentation including adjectives such as tall, short; fast, slow; strong, weak, etc. Students will remember the adjectives.

Then, teacher continues the lesson by asking general questions about stories. Do you like reading story? , Which story did you read last time? , What is your favorite story? Teacher reminds the words that they have learnt before the lesson by asking questions. Teacher begins to tell the story by heart with the help of gestures, mimics, tone of voice and body language.

After telling the story:

Activity 1:

Students are divided into groups of four. Each of the students has his/her piece of paper to re-write the story. Each of the students writes a sentence about the story gives the paper next students in their groups. They continue to write the story until the story finishes. They read the story that they re-write.

Activity 2:

            The worksheets including crossword puzzle (about adjectives) are delivered by the teacher. Students are asked to make the puzzle.

Activity 3:

            The worksheets including jumbled words (animal names) are delivered by the teacher. Students are asked to write the names of the animals in a correct order.

Story:

Elephant and Friends

One day an elephant wandered into a forest in search of friends. 

He saw a monkey on a tree. 

“Will you be my friend?” asked the elephant.

Replied the monkey, “You are too big. You cannot swing from trees like me.”

Next, the elephant met a rabbit. He asked him to be his friends. 

But the rabbit said, “You are too big to play in my burrow!”

Then the elephant met a frog.

“Will you be my friend? He asked.

“How can I?” asked the frog.

“You are too big to leap about like me.”

The elephant was upset. He met a fox next.

“Will you be my friend?” he asked the fox.

The fox said, “Sorry, sir, you are too big.”

The next day, the elephant saw all the animals in the forest running for their lives.

The elephant asked them what the matter was.

The bear replied, “There is a tier in the forest. He’s trying to eat us all up!”

The animals all ran away to hide.

The elephant wondered what he could do to solve everyone in the forest.

Meanwhile, the tiger kept eating up whoever he could find.

The elephant walked up to the tiger and said, “Please, Mr. Tiger do not eat up these poor animals.”

“Mind your own business!” growled the tiger.

The elephant warned the tiger again, “Don’t do that!”

The tiger replied, “What if I do again?”

“I will have to kick you.” replied the elephant.

“Hahhahhah!” laughed the tiger and added “You cannot do anything to me. I am stronger than you are.”

The elephant has a no choice but to give the tiger a hefty kick.

The frightened tiger ran for his life.

The elephant ambled back into the forest to announce the good news to everyone.

All the animals thanked the elephant.

They said, “You are just the right size to be our friend.”