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Friday, April 12, 2013

5th Grade Unit 1 My Country Teaching Storytelling Activity



Mustafa MILLIK
3-A 10131506

TEACHING STORYTELLING
Grade: 5

Unit: 1 MY Country

    Pre-Storytelling Part
Activity: Introducing the characters of story to the students
Language points: Teaching simple expressions ''What is your name? Where are you from? '' (am,is,are structure)
Aims:
-         To warm the students to lesson
-         To develop students understanding
-         To draw the students attention
-        To give some clues about the lesson
 Materials: Pictures of the Characters



Procedure:
Teacher enters the classroom and greets the students. He asks some questions to them. ‘Do you like Stories?’  ‘Did you listen story before?’ ‘Do you like listening story?’ Teacher draws student’s attention by asking some questions like that. Later, the teacher introduces the characters of the students by using pictures. Teacher only says the characters names.
                                                                            
While Story Telling Part                                   

Activity: Telling the story using pictures and powerpoint presentation
Materials: Powerpoint presentations, Pictures of the Characters
Aims:
-         To learn some new vocabularies
-         To learn lesson in funny way
-         To learn how you can meet with somebody
-         To develop their listening skills
-        To learn some cities in Turkey.
-         To learn become a friend with strangers.
-         To learn the goals easily by using repetitions and rhymes
-         To develop positive attitudes towards language

Procedure:

Teacher starts to tell story. He uses pictures and powerpoint presentation while he tells the story.
Once upon a time, there is a donkey in a village of Amasya. His name is Peter. He is pretty old. He couldn’t find anything to eat. He decides to go warm place, Antalya, to find something to eat. He goes goes goes and sees a dog on the road and says:
‘’ Hello, hello!
What’s your name?
What’s your name?
 What’s your name?
Hello, hello!
What’s your name?
Tell me your name …
The dog replies ‘My name is Jason. Where are you from? ‘
Peter: I'm Peter and I'm from Amasya. I'm going to Antalya to find some food’
The dog asks ‘Can i join you?’
The donkey agrees and together they set out. When they come Ankara, They see a cat. The donkey says:
‘’ Hello, hello!
What is your name?
What is your name?
 What is your name?
Hello, hello!
What is your name?
Tell me your name … ‘’
The cat answers the question ‘My name is Sylvester .Where are you from? ‘’
The donkey replies ‘ I'm Peter and I'm from Amasya and the dog is Jason and he is from Sivas. We are going to Antalya to find some food. Do you want to join us?
The cat accepts the offer and joins the group.
After a while, they go go go and see a rooster.
(The teacher stops here and asks the students ‘what will the donkey say to the rooster?’. The teacher listens some answers and then tells the rest of the story.)
Then they say:
‘’ Hello, hello!
What is your name?
What is your name?
 What is your name?
Hello, hello!
What is your name?
Tell me your name … ‘’
The rooster answers ‘My name is Billy. Where are you from?’
The donkey starts to talk ‘ I'm Peter and I'm from Amasya , The dog is Jason and he’s from Sivas and the cat is Sylvester and he is from Ankara. We are going to Antalya to find some food. ‘’
The rooster says ‘i know the way i can show the way to you ‘
The donkey says ‘My friends and i are glad to join us.’
After a looooong journey, they find Antalya and huge valley with green verdure. The valley has a lot of things to eat. The donkey is happy now. The cat, dog and rooster are happy as well. They live in peace forever there…

Post-Storytelling Part

Activity 1: Asking Comprehension Questions about the story.
Materials: There is no need for material in this part but the teacher uses his drawing skills to explain some word to the students.
Aims: The teacher does this activity for
-         To check the students understanding of story, words … etc.
-         To practice language
-         If students don’t understand the story we can enlighten their understanding the story.
Procedure:
The teacher asks comprehension questions to students’ ’what will we use while we meet with other people?’’  What is the meaning of rooster?’’ … etc.
Activity 2: Role Play
Materials: Masks, Role Play Cards
Aims:
-         to learn the language (grammar, vocabulary… etc.)in funny way
-         to produce the language
-         to develop their social, cultural and linguistic skills
-         to learn the lesson with enjoyable and interesting activity
-         to practice the lesson
-         to develop their listening and speaking
-         to memorize the vocabularies, chunks, repetitions … etc.
-         to understand the story correctly

Procedure:
-      The teacher divides the class into group of four students.
-      Each member of the group chooses their mask and their roles as well.
-      Students act out the dialogues in front of the class.
-       At the end of the class they choose the best group which play well.














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