Unit 3 Anansi and the Plantains
Listen up! Listen to your teacher read a poem. 1 What is the main idea of the poem?
a) You can always trust Anansi. b) You can never trust Anansi. 2 What is the poet trying to tell us about Anansi? 3 What do you know about Anansi? Reading Listen to the first part of the story. Then answer the questions.
Anansi and the Plantains
Anansi had three children. They were hungry. “Go and look for food,” said Anansi’s wife.
Anansi went out of the house. He sat under a mango tree and slept all day. When he woke up, he saw Rat. Rat had a big bunch of plantains. “Hello, Rat,” said Anansi. “I worked hard today. I searched for food but I didn’t find any.
My wife and children are starving. I hope you can help.
Please give me some plantains.”
1 Who gave Anansi the plantains? 2 What lie did Anansi tell? 3 What do you think will happen next?
CR Listen up!: Read aloud the poem from page 136. Drawing on background knowledge, ask pupils to talk about other Anansi stories they know, to think about how the character usually behaves and to think of words to describe him. • Reading: Read this page of the story aloud and ask questions 1–3. Then tell pupils to read the page themselves to check the answers. • Predicting: Encourage pupils to think of more than one possible outcome.
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