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stories like these in a story book, as a chapter of a book, in a magazine, or on a website. Elicit students’ ideas regarding what the story is about. Write some of their ideas on the board. 2. Read and see what happens. Look at the underlined verbs. What tense are they in? Is the story about the present? Ask your teacher any words you don’t know. You could ask students to read the story and discuss in pairs what happens. Then as a class check their understanding of the anecdote. After that, draw students’ attention to the underlined verbs. Ask them what tense they are in. If possible, send them to their Irregular Verbs List on page 121 and remind them they can consult it if they have not learned the different forms yet. Then, point out that the story is in past and that all the verbs tell us that. Differentiated Instruction For this activity you can use the Three-minute Pause to allow slower readers to finish, while giving more proficient readers a change to be challenged more by summarizing the story. 3. Match the parts of the story with their descriptions. This is to help students analyze story structure. Read each description out loud and emphasize the key words (last, problem solved; exciting or problem; first, information: after beginning). Then give them time to match these with the parts in the story. Learning to Learn 112 Ask the question from the box and elicit students’ prior knowledge; encourage them to go to the Appendix if needed.
What Fun Thing Has Happened to You?
Social Practice of the Language To tell short stories of interest. Achievements • Explore fun personal anecdotes. •Analyze dierent aspects of storytelling. •Tell a personal anecdote. Product: Recording of a Personal Anecdote Recreational and Literary Environment
1 Look at the picture and the title.Tell each other what you think it is about. Where can you find stories like these? 106
Henry’s Hat
a Yesterday my class went to the zoo. We were all excited about seeing all the animals. I really wanted to see the pandas. b When we got to the zoo, I was happy that we went to see the pandas rst. There was a baby panda and it was so cute! c I was looking at the baby panda when suddenly I felt someone taking my hat o my head. I thought it was one of my friends joking with me, but it wasn’t. I looked up and saw a monkey wearing my hat and laughing at me! d Finally, a zookeeper came and gave my hat back to me. Lots of people took pictures. There are even videos on the Internet now of the monkey wearing my hat! 2 Read and see what happens. Look at the underlined verbs.What tense are they in? Is the story about the present? Ask your teacher any words you don’t know. 3 Match the parts of the story with their descriptions. 112
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Ending: It is the last part of the story and it tells us how the problem was solved. Climax: It is the part in the story where something exciting or a problem happens. Beginning: It is the rst part of the story that gives us the background information. Development: It is the part that happens a er the beginning.
your anecdote to make it more understandable? For information about this theme, go to page 112.
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Achievement Explore fun personal anecdotes. Teaching Guidelines • Activate previous knowledge to recognize topic, purpose, and audience. • Analyze story structure: beginning, development, climax, and ending. Development What stories about yourself do you like sharing with others? Write on the board: What stories about yourself do you like sharing with others? You can ask students to work in pairs and share their ideas before sharing with the whole class. At this point, you may allow some Spanish words to help them feel more confident to express themselves, but always provide them with the words or phrases in English and have them repeat after you as you write them on the board. 1. Look at the picture and the title. Tell each other what you think it is about. Where can you find stories like these? 106 To get students to activate previous knowledge to recognize topic, purpose, and audience, ask them to look at the picture and title and guess who is in the story and what happens. Highlight that you could find
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