6th Grade Unit 7 Hygine Storytelling Activities

Ayşegül Zeybekoğlu
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Teaching Storytelling

Grade :6th

Unit: 7 Hygine

Subject: illnesses and should/shouldn't pattern

Aims:   Students will be able to listen and understand the story

 Students will be able to retell the story.

 Students will be learn to be a team and work cooperatively.

 Students will be write a dialogue and act it out.

Arda’s Illness

Arda is a little boy.  He always has a toothache, stomachache, sore throat and fever. He is always ill because he doesn’t listen to his mother. He doesn’t like vegatables and fruits but he likes chocolate, macaroni and hamburger  very much. These are very harmful foods.

One day Arda has a cough and fever. His mother and Arda goes to the doctor. Arda does not like to go to the doctor . The doctor says to Arda ‘what is the matter with you?’  he says: I have a bad cough and I have a sore throat.’ The doctor controls Arda and write some medicine to him. The doctor does injection to him Arda cries very much.

The doctor asks “Do you eat properly?” Arda’s mother says “No he doesn’t. Arda doesn’t like vegatables. He eats hamburger, chips, macarony.” The doctor says,” Arda you should eat healty food. You should eat vegatables and fruits. If you dont eat healthy food you can ill and you must go to the doctor everytime. And  then you should brush your teeth . If you don’t  brush your teaath you have a toothache. “Arda says “Ok I will eat healty foods and  brush my teeth and I will be a healty .“

Arda gives promise to his mother. He eats vegatables and fruits . He does not eat hamburger chips. He is a healthy boy now.

 Pre-story telling: Warm up

Activity: remembering the illnesses

Aim:   to make the students remember the topic

to understand aims of the story to teach health problems.

1-      Teacher presents some questions about the topic and wants them to fill in the blanks.

2-      Teacher talks about the story to take their attention.

Materials: PPT
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B52LRlAKwqxlWUNGbkNPeXQxbHM/edit?usp=sharing

Presentation:

Activity : Telling the Story

Objectives:

 -Students will be able to understand the story

- Students will be able to see the usage of the target language.

  

Material: a powerpoint presentation:  

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B52LRlAKwqxlWHl2WUFsMFVaUVU/edit?usp=sharing

1-      Teacher presents some questions about the topic and wants them to fill in the blanks.

2-      Teacher talks about the story to take their attention.

     

While story telling

Activity: Story telling

Aims:  students will be able to  listen the story and understand it.

            students will see the illnesses in the natural context.

Material: PPT

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B52LRlAKwqxlTTRkSUNwQjI3bms/edit?usp=sharing

1-      Teacher tells the story with mimics, gestures, intonation etc.

2-      Students comprehend it by listening and looking at the pictures in power point.

Post-story telling:

Activity 1: retelling the story by looking at the pictures

Aims: Teacher will analyze students’ comprehension of the story

1        Teacher shows the pictures and asks students to retell the story.

2        Students will be able to use should and shouldn’t and the illnesses.

3        Teacher asks some questions about the story and the students answer them.

Activity 2: Team Game

Aims:   Students will be able to play a game cooperativly.

            Students will learn to be a team.

Materials: PPT , candies for winners, two toys.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B52LRlAKwqxldVI3OEVwZEpPd28/edit?usp=sharing

1-      Teacher divides the class in two groups and gives a toy to each group.

2-      All students of each group tries to find that word and pronounce it correctly

3-      The one who squeezes the toy first,  says the word and if it s true, this group takes ten point.

4-      Each student do that in turn. At the end of the competition, the teacher calculates the scores and gives a candy box to the winners.

Activity 3:  Writing a dialogue and role playing

Aims:   Students will be able to write dialogues by using should/ shouldn’t and health problems.

            Students will be able to act the dialogues which they write.

1-      Teachers wants them to write a doctor- patient conversation

2-      Students work in pairs and write a dialogue

3-      Students will act them in front of the class.