Creating a story

1. Activity 2
Topic: Fishing with Sam-Animated Short Film
Level B1
Literary
Goal
Learning how to work in teams
Technique Writing a story based on activation questions
Objective
After providing students with some questions , they would try to write a story
based on the sequence of the question.
Segment Time Instructor’s Task
Participants
Learning Tasks
Rationale
Schema
activation
5 min -T will askthe students
some questions.
-T will dividethe groupin
two,thenone goesapart
fromthe one that staysin
the classroom.
( questionaries’1)
-Ss will use English to
answer the questions
orally.
-Ss will give use their
imagination.
This section will
introduce the
students to
develop their
creativity before
the story.
First Task 10 min - T will ask the students to
share their stories. The
group that left create their
own story, but the group
that stayed in the
classroom saw the real
story.
- T will present some of the
most important aspects of
the story for them to think.
-Ss will share in groups
their opinions about the
stories told.
- Students are going
to tell their stories.
- Students are going
to share their stories
- Students can also
provide their insights
about the story they
created.
- This class will let
the students to
express ideas, be
creative and
activate the use of
vocabulary they
know in advance.
Controlled
written
practice
10 min - T will show the real story
to the whole group and
now both groups will give
answers to the questions.
- T will check the possible
answers given by the
students
- Ss will share the
possible answers.
-Ss will compare the
answers as well as
discuss them with the
rest of the class
Ss will check answers
with T.
- This section of
the class will allow
to the students to
know their
different opinions
and values,
connected to the
story

2. Expansion
activity
15 min - T will ask the students to
make pairs, then to find an
introduction and a
conclusion to the part of
the story.
- And rewrite the whole
story on a paper to be
shared with the rest at the
end of the class.
- T will ask the last question
to the group.
- Ss will form a circle,
they will read their
complete story, finally
they would choose
the most completed
story according to the
most developed ideas
as most structured
reading.
This section will
allow the students
to see the parts of
the reading, check
the sequence of
the events and
the supported
ideas in the
paragraphs.
Activities
I. Schema activation
1- What happened to the penguins?
2- How many fish did they catch?
3- What did the lion sea do with the fish?
4- Why Sam didn’t catch any fish?
5- What did Sam and the lion sea do to catch fish?
II. Task 1 Video :Fishing with Sam-Animated Short Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMnx_3BC7EM
III. Controlled written practice
Instructions: After listening to the story narrated by the classmates, answer the questions
given in activity 1 using the video.
IV. Expansion activity
 Make pairs then share your papers.
 Write your opinion of the moral message learned from the video.
 Share with the class.
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