Understanding Plot and Character Analysis

1. Understanding Plot and Character Analysis
Activity 2
Topic: BAD HABITS - MORAL STORIES FOR KIDS
Level A1
Interaction of Language
Technique Literature Discussion
Objective Interpret and communicate information about a video story
Values Behavior properly with relatives and non-relative people
Segment Time Instructor’s Task
Participants
Learning Tasks
Rationale
Schema
activation
5 min - T is to going to tell 5
questions about good and
bad habits some teenagers
do (orally).
-Why do teenagers eat with
their mouth open?
-Why do teenagers are so
emotional unstable?
-Why don’t teenagers obey
teachers
-Why do teenagers get
upset all the time?
-Do teenagers like to do
chores at home?
- Ss are going to
work on key elements
posted on the board
and create their own
meanings.
-Ss are going to look
carefully the
questions and
comment the good
and bad habits seen
in the video.
- This section of
the class will focus
on Ss to create
their own set of
habits based on
what they see on
the video and
promote team
work.
Controlled
Reading
Practice
(analyses the
story –
Characters
and plot)
5 min -T is going to present a
video. A short story about a
boy and his uncle (BAD
HABITS)
T- is going to ask students
to sit in pairs or in groups
of three and discuss the
questions.
T- is going to write the
questions on the board so
students can follow the
sequence of events.
-Ss are going to
express their feelings
and tell what their
parents nag them
about their bad
habits.
- In pairs, or groups
students walk around
the class and
exchange information
with other groups and
categorize the bad
habits. Bad, worse
and the worst.
- This section of
the class will
enable Ss to test
their speaking
abilities.

2. Expansion
activity (Plot)
15 min -T is going to show what
these inferences are
important when it comes to
a topic they know or
nothing at all.
T is going to give students
pieces of information about
the video and each part of
a story (plot, character,
traits and setting) to make
an oral activity to perform
and differentiate good from
bad habits.
-Ss in groups of three
are going to create
their own stories
based on what they
watched on the
video.
Ss can see through
their own live
experiences at home
or with relatives and
create their own
moments. A student
can be seen as a
good habit and the
the bad habit.
This section of
the class will focus
Ss to create
critical thinking
and make some
reflections about
people’s
behaviors.
Homework
T is going to ask students
to do a reaction paper
about his good or bad
habits they used to have or
still have.
-Ss are going to finish
it up at home and
present the reaction
paper and read it
next class.
This section will
focus of following
correct grammar
structures and
increase
vocabulary based
on their
judgments.
Material : BAD HABITSFOR KIDS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtp0CMb3afQ