5th Grade Unit 9 Farm Life Teaching Storytelling

Selda BACAK

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CLASS                          :5th Grade

UNIT                            :9

SUBJECT                     : Farm Life

GRAMMAR POINT      : Animal’s names and like and dislike structues

LESSON                      : English 

PRESENTATION

The activity is;

• Storytelling by listening the soft music called 'Soft Music to Relax "Morning Light" Relaxing, Rewind, and Recharge with Soft, Calming Piano Music'

The objectives are;

•  To become aware of the intonation and pronunciation of the language
• To develop positive attitudes towards language
•  To make the students become personally involved in the story
• To help the develop their own creative writing

The materials are;

•   Pictures of the animals in the story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

The procedure is;

•  First of all, in this story-based lesson, before the teacher starts to tell the story, she makes the content accesible to the students, she introduces the main characters in the story.
• He shows the pictures of the animals in the story and asks them which animals they are.
• Then, The teacher starts to read the story about the animals named ‘Bremen Musicians’ after telling them that they will learn a story .
• The students will hear ‘Do you like … ? or I like….’ Structures.
• The teacher will use gestures mimes, facial gestures to help convey the meaning
• The teacher will encourage the students to take part in the storytelling by repeating the same sentences.
• She will make them listen to soft music for warming up the atmosphere.

The story is this:

    Tthere is an old and unhappy donkey. He thinks himself ‘’My owner doesn’t like me because he doesn’t give me any food. I am so hungry.’’ He decides to go away. He says ‘ I will be musician at Bremen. Some people like my songs’’ and he leaves the home. While walking, he comes across a dog. He says to  the donkey ‘’My owner doesn’t like me because he doesn’t give me any food. I am so hungry.’’ The donkey laughs and says to him.’ Don’t worry! Lets go to Bremen and be musician.’’ While walking , they see a sorry cat.  The cat says to them. ‘’My owner doesn’t like me because he doesn’t give me any food. I am so hungry.’ The donkey says ‘Don’t worry! Let’s go to the Bremen and be musician.’ They walk by singing songs. They hear a voice of rooster. He tells them; ‘’My owner doesn’t like me because he doesn’t give me any food I am so hungry’’ The donkey says ‘’Don’t worry. Let’s  go to Bremen and be musician.’  Then, while they are going, they come across a mouse . it seem very sad and it is crying. It says to them 'My owner doesn’t like me because he doesn’t give me any food. I am so hungry.’ The donkey says ‘Don’t worry! Let’s go to the Bremen and be musician.' they go during the days and hours. At the end, they reach to Bremen , they start to sing to the people and they reach their aim. they become musicians.

PRACTICE

The activity:

•  Role play/ acting out

The objectives are;

• To learn how to play roles or how to act out.
• To be able to practice the Target Language
• To learn develop the emphathy fort he characters in the story

The materials are;

• Masks of the animals in the story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

The procedure is;

• The teacher explains to the students what they ill do in this stage, how to act out by saying them ‘ You will act out the story as far as you remember. If you want, You can add some extra parts or exclude some ones. 
• Then, the teacher chooses four students and gives each one the one of the masks of the animals.
• And the students act out the story.
• If other students want to act out , they can be chosen and the activity starts again.

PRODUCTION

The activity is;

•  Creating their own stories about the animals

The objectives are;

• To be able to produce their own story about the animals
• To develop their cooperations with other students
• To be able to work cooperatively
• To be able to use their creativeness by thinking interesting ideas.

The materials are;

• Four or five colourful A4 papers which wil be given to the students
• Soft music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZHSR5VG0uU

The procedure is;

• The teacher makes explanation about the activity.
• Then, she divides the class to the groups of four or five students
• She gives them one colourful paper
• She starts the soft music and the students start to create their own stories
• They are given 15 minutes. Then, every group shares their stories with the class.