Storytelling

Explore the objectives of this session and the ordered sequence of games connected to it.

Grammar objectives

Sequence sentences and stay in one tense across several turns. Aim for full sentences and real exchanges between participants, whatever their level.

Action objectives

Add your line to a group story on the spot, one word or one sentence at a time. Played out in Story telling and One word story.

Lexical objectives

Story connectors in English — one day, and then, after that, suddenly, in the end — on top of known nouns and verbs.

Games in this session

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1

Introducing the topic

Siting in a circle, the children are presented with the topic of the lesson.

5 min
2

Revision of the previous week

The children sit in a circle and talk about the topic of the previous week.

10 min
3

Story telling

Divide the kids into groups of about three. On one side of the room is a short story. The kids have a paper and a pen. One kid runs to the other side and try to remember a few word and run back and tell another kid to write it at the paper. The game is finished when the story is written down by the kids.

12 min
4

One word story

Standing in a circle each kid says one word to complete a story.

12 min
5

Revision of the topic

The children sit in a circle and talk about the topic of the session.

5 min

Vocabulary

Vocabulary for this topic in the language of the course. Listen to a word, then practise saying it.

Phrases

Phrases for this topic in the language of the course.