Interactive and story-telling activity:
Key concepts and vocabulary: past tense- vocabulary: mushrooms, hut, river,
etc.
Objectives: guessing the next events of the story: Students use of their
imagination. Interaction between the teacher and the students while they
are guessing the story together (speaking) - Re-writing the story again
Level: Low-intermediate- hight intermediate-advanced
Time: fluid
Materials: Five photos of four young people: Two men and two women (young
adults)
Practice:
Teacher starts sticking the pictures one by one while the students guess the
events that can happen next
The story:
Lucy is a beautiful girl who was born to a poor family. She married Mark, a
rich man who was much older than her. One day she decided to bring her
husband the mushrooms that he loved. While she was collecting the
mushrooms on the other side of the river, she met her ex-boyfriend,
Peter. Because she could not resist the temptation of the handsome man, she made love to him in the hut
. To her shock
Peter s fiance called him and he decided to leave
her. She started to blame herself and she called her husband to tell him aboiut her mistake. He could not accept her apology, so he
decided to divorce her. After her call on the phone, it started to rain heavily.
She then decided to ask for help. Both her friends Sally and Mark did not
accept to help her. The former blamed her for the mistake and the latter
wanted money since her husband was rich. At last she committed suicide.
Who are we to blame?
Lucy: we blame love
Peter: we blame passion
Sally: we blame society
Mark: we blame money
Frank: we blame fidelity.
Follow-up: Students re-write the story and add some comments about it>