storytelling
Teacher Training level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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to let students experiment with a storytelling lesson for young learners to extract the basic principles involved in the technique
Subsidiary Aims
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to provide practice and diagnostic opportunities of some aditional aspects needed to teach young learners (span of attention, pace, prop creation, etc)
Procedure (39-51 minutes)
Show some pictures and let Ss guess the topic of the lesson Activate schema by asking what comes to mind when discussing Storytelling and young learners
The teacher tells a story used to introduce the sound of the letter S. The Students analyze the model in terms of aims, length, aids, etc.
Student Teachers work in groups to create a story and a hand movement following the model as an example. They are provided with a song as a starting point. The teacher monitors and prompts when needed, but it should be as free as possible Then, the groups present it in OC
Peer feedback guided by questions Teacher corrects or praises
In pairs students solve a multiple choice quiz with the key principles according to Harmer, using their task and feedback to choose the proper answer
As a follow-up, students need to reflect on the new knowledge acquired by practice They also need to read some theory about the topic (it is important that theory is provided after the practice, so a deeper reflection can be obtained) Discussion at the beginning of the following class