The Lovely Baby
Using stories in the classroom
Topic: ‘The Emperor's new clothes' by Hans Christian Andersen
I.Objectives:
-To develop students' ability to reconstruct a grammatically and textually coherent piece of writing
-To provide practice in prediction skills in order to ease the understanding of a new text
-To provide practice in gist listening in order to encourage students to not focus on difficult vocabulary and thus make authentic listening texts more accessible -To provide practice in scanning a text for information
-To by the end of this lesson the students will be able to successfully form past simple object questions in writing
II.Subject Matter: Using stories in the classroom
Topic: ‘The Emperor's new clothes' by Hans Christian Andersen
III. Procedure
•Start by eliciting different types of leaders: king, queen, president, prime minister, emperor etc.
• Ask students what kind of a personality they think a good leader needs.
• Tell them you are going to read the beginning of a story about a leader and that they need to listen very carefully as they will need to reproduce the text from memory. Tell them that you will read it twice but that they are not allowed to make notes at this stage.
• Read the text twice. (Use the teacher's numbered square sheet.)
• Put the students into pairs and write their names on the left-hand side of the board. Draw 3 vertical lines representing their lives after their names.
-Hand out sheet with numbered blank squares (worksheet 1). Tell them that each box represents a word from the text.
-Ask each pair in turn to suggest a word that they remember hearing from the text. (The words do not need to be in order.)
-If the word is present, tell them which number it is and the students write it in the correct box. Make sure you cross out the word on your copy, so you know which words have been ‘found'.
-If the word is not there or has already been called
Topic: ‘The Emperor's new clothes' by Hans Christian Andersen
I.Objectives:
-To develop students' ability to reconstruct a grammatically and textually coherent piece of writing
-To provide practice in prediction skills in order to ease the understanding of a new text
-To provide practice in gist listening in order to encourage students to not focus on difficult vocabulary and thus make authentic listening texts more accessible -To provide practice in scanning a text for information
-To by the end of this lesson the students will be able to successfully form past simple object questions in writing
II.Subject Matter: Using stories in the classroom
Topic: ‘The Emperor's new clothes' by Hans Christian Andersen
III. Procedure
•Start by eliciting different types of leaders: king, queen, president, prime minister, emperor etc.
• Ask students what kind of a personality they think a good leader needs.
• Tell them you are going to read the beginning of a story about a leader and that they need to listen very carefully as they will need to reproduce the text from memory. Tell them that you will read it twice but that they are not allowed to make notes at this stage.
• Read the text twice. (Use the teacher's numbered square sheet.)
• Put the students into pairs and write their names on the left-hand side of the board. Draw 3 vertical lines representing their lives after their names.
-Hand out sheet with numbered blank squares (worksheet 1). Tell them that each box represents a word from the text.
-Ask each pair in turn to suggest a word that they remember hearing from the text. (The words do not need to be in order.)
-If the word is present, tell them which number it is and the students write it in the correct box. Make sure you cross out the word on your copy, so you know which words have been ‘found'.
-If the word is not there or has already been called