江苏教育学院附属高级中学陈月琴

TaskTask Telling a storyTelling a story

1. Ask the students to retell the story Fog

2. What kind of story do you like?

science fictionlove story detective storyhistorical story

plot

Skills building1: plotting a story

Plot:

The sequence of events in a story is called the plot. A plot tells what happens to the characters in a story.

Plot

1. Exposition

2. Complication

3.Resolution

It comes at the beginning of the story and introduces the Setting and the main characters(Who? Where? When? Why/)

It comes in the middle of the story and tells about the problems experienced by the characters.

It comes at the end of the storyAnd tells how the problem is Solved or how the story ends

Practice: Part A : ask students to put the paragraphs in the correct order and then tell which part each paragraph belongs to.

Practice: Ask the students to tell the three parts ( exposition, complication, resolution) of the story Fog.

Step 1: completing a checklist

Listening:

1. Part A : listen and complete the checklist.

2. Part B: Listen and answer the questions.

3. Ask the students to tell the beginning of the story.

Possible example:

It happened in this summer. One morning at about 10, Sandy and her classmates went to the museum together with their teachers , because they had a class project about art and history. They got there by school bus. When they arrived at the museum, Sandy and her partner Li Feifei were so busy looking around that they got lost. So they ran about, trying to find their classmates . Luckily they saw their classmates and caught up with them.

Skills building2: identifying different elements of a comic strip

How can we tell a story? (words; pictures)

speech bubbles

thought bubbles

sound bubbles

caption

Practice:

1. Ask the students to tell the story

2. Ask the students to finish the comic strip about a monster.

a. Label the different ways of adding words to pictures.b. Tell the story

Homework:1. Prepare a short story with a clear plot.

2. Add four kinds of bubbles to the comic strip and tell the story.

Step2: preparing a story with a surprise ending.

1. Check the homework.

2. Different stories have different endings.

happysadsurprisemovingthought-provoking

3. Ask the students to do part A and B on page 15.

Practice: Add a surprise ending to the story.

That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was walking home at one in the morning after a tiring practice at the theater. With opening night only a week away, I was still learning my lines. I was having trouble dealing with my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about giving up both acting and San Francisco. I had expected too much of my life. As I walked down the empty streets under tall buildings, I felt very small and cold. I began running both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking homeless people under blankets. About a block from my apartment , I heard a sound behind me. I turned quickly, half expecting to see someone

with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been my wallet falling to the sidewalk. Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired any more. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard he noise. Although I searched the sidewalk anxiously for 15 minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.

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Skills building3: using adjectives and adverbs in stories

1.What kinds of words are the words in red and blue?

2. What is the function of them?

(make the story more interesting and lively)

adjectives:

2. to express physical and other qualities, our feelings and views3. to express origin, necessity, frequency and degree of certainty

1. to describe a person or thing.

Adverbs:

1. to add more information to a verb, an adjective, a phrase or another adverb.

Practice:

Do the exercise on page16.

2. to express place, time, frequency, degree, manner and viewpoints.

3. to make comments, concentrate on a certain word or phrase and link clauses or sentences.

Step3: improving your story

1. Ask students to do part A.

2. Part B: ask students to present their stories.

◆ tone of voice ◆ loudness ◆ rhythm of speech ◆ the expression on your face ◆ body language ◆ eye contact ◆ hand movements ◆ stress

Possible example:

All of a sudden, a bell ringing, Sandy woke up and found Herself sitting on a chair. She could see people were leaving. To her great surprise, she saw a big , red apple in her left hand and some beautiful flowers in her right hand. She knew it was time for the museum to close and she had to leave. But her classmates and her teachers were nowhere in sight.

Homework:

1. Do part B on page91

2. Prepare a story with a surprise ending

3. Preview project.