Aesop’s fable: “The fox and the dog”

A project conducted with A project conducted with pupils in C class!pupils in C class!

The project is equally divided in three sessions of 45 minutes

duration

• Lesson 1: Warm – up and Pre – reading activities

• Lesson 2: Reading activity + follow – up speaking

activities • Lesson 3: Follow – up listening activity

+ post reading activities

Activities in Lesson 1:• Activity 1: • Gap filling activity: Pupils experiment with

structures, they write for a real purpose.• Speaking with focus on grammatical

patterns such as: demonstrative pronouns this is – that is, verbs “have” and “do”.

• Teaching aids: personal photocopy, board, picture

flashcards: dog, fox, cat phrasal flashcards: this is, that is

• Activity 2: Speaking about the cover page of the story

• Grammar focus on the verb “do” and the auxiliary verb “can”. Pupils answer to the questions: “Do you like the colours?” “Can you tell me the colours?”

• Teaching aids: word flashcards with colours.

• Activity 3: Discussing about Aesop and fables

• The teacher asks pupils what they know about Aesop and his fables.

(The discussion is conducted in Greek because it is more convenient to pupils.)

Lesson 2: Reading activity

Benefits of story telling:• Eye contact• Characters’ dramatic placement• Voice and gesture recreation

Benefits of listening to the story:

•Pupils directly reflect while listening the story

•It is more entertaining to pupils, they familiarize with authentic dialogues.

Teaching aid: CD player

Speaking activity 1:

• Discussion upon the story’s slogan:

The discussion is conducted in Greek so that pupils can easily support their opinion.

Teaching aid: a poster

Food is good, but a lot of food is bad for you!

Speaking activity 2:

• Pupils use new structures and decide who is right and who is wrong.

• A rather fascinating activity because all pupils raise their hands, decide and judge at the same time.

We should not forget that children are very strict in their judgments.

Speaking activity 3:

Teacher adds the Red Riding Hood in the story:

• Children are generally fond of using their imagination while describing events!

• Children find it interesting to give both a different end in the story and feel like fairy tale writers themselves!!!

Lesson 3: Listening activity

Benefits of listening to the story’s song:

• Pupils love songs

• They are great for movement and word-phrase repetition.

• They understand more English than any other method

Post – reading activities

Vocabulary elaboration activities:

• Activity 1: Pupils categorize verbs, nouns, adjectives of the story.

• Activity 2: word matching

• Activity 3: a fun activity with the fable’s slogan.

• Activity 4: focus on imperatives

• Activities 5 + 6: Gap filling

Extra fun activity:

• Pupils inspired by the fable prepare a poster using their imagination and many crayons!!!!

• Pupils make a second poster adding the red riding hood and her grandfather since they have given another end to the story.

Posters pupils prepared!!!