The document provides information about using a story grammar to help remember details from a story. It includes a short story called "The Bridge of Love" and questions to analyze the story using elements of a story grammar like setting, characters, plot events, and conclusion. It encourages using this approach to more easily recall essential story information.

1. Making a Story Grammar to
Remember Detail
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2. Review
What reference materials
can be found in the
library?

3. Checking of Assignment
Answer in Activity 7 on page 24 of ReadingTextbook.
Words Pronunciation Common
Usage
Meaning
adept
adept
bore
bore
close
close
deliberate
deliberate
elder
elder
ə’dept
ə’dept
‘bὀr
‘bō(ə)r
‘klōs
‘klōz
dӛ’lib(ә)rət
dӛlibәrāt
‘eldә(r)
‘eldә(r)
adj.
n.
v.
n.
adv.
v.
adj.
v.
adj.
n.
highly skilled
an expert
to make a hole
a tidal wave
near
to cover the opening
slow and careful
to discuss
of greater age
a dark purple shrub

4. Motivation
Get yourself a partner. Position yourselves in
a way that one of the pair will not see the
screen.The other will look at the photo that
the teacher will flash on the screen.
One member of the pair will tell his/her
partner what was on the photo. His/her
partner will then draw on the paper what his
partner tells him/her, without looking at it.

5. Motivation

6. Unlocking of Difficulties
1. vast – very great or big in size
2. possession - ownership
3. lover – persons in love
4. bridge – a structure carrying a pathway
or a roadway over a depression or
obstacle
5. minister – servant or agent
6. smitten - attracted

7. Presentation
Today we are going to read silently. Study the
story about the bridge of love in the Milky
Way. Remember the standards for silent
reading.

8. The Bridge of Love
Have you ever looked into the night sky?
Have you noticed a broadband of brightness
across the entire sky? This band of stars is
called the Milky Way. It contains over 100
billion stars including our sun. The Chinese
say that if you look into the night sky on the
seventh month in the Chinese calendar, you
will see this bridge of stars very clearly.

9. The Bridge of Love

10. The Bridge of Love
A long time ago, there lived a king in the
Land of Stars. He was powerful. He was the
mightiest ruler in the vast expanse of the
skies. But the Land of Stars was not his
important treasure. His most precious
possession was his own daughter.

11. The Bridge of Love
The princess was beautiful and
hardworking, loving and obedient to her
father. And she did one thing nobody else
could do. She could weave clouds on her
loom every day. The clouds covered the sky
and gave shelter to the people from the hot
sun.

12. The Bridge of Love
It came to pass that a handsome prince
from a neighboring space kingdom visited the
king. He was smitten by the princess’ beauty.
He saw how respectful and obedient the
princess was to her father. They fell in love
with each other.

13. The Bridge of Love
The Prince asked the Princess’s hand in
marriage. The King agreed on one condition.
The princess must continue weaving clouds
even after her marriage. And the Prince
agreed.

14. The Bridge of Love
But the young lovers forgot their promise.
The Princess spent days gathering heavenly
flowers. She would dress herself with jewels of
all kinds. The Prince enjoyed the company of
his beautiful bride. They would play, travel, and
enjoy food and music all day long. The Prince
left his kingdom to his ministers. He spent all
his time with his princess. And the Princess
never wove clouds on her loom.

15. The King was very angry. There were no
more clouds to protect the people from the
sun’s bright rays. People died from heat. There
were no rains that watered the earth. Crops
and animals died. With one wave of his hand,
the King separated the lovers. He sent the
prince to the northern skies. He sent the
princess to the southern skies. The River of
Stars separated them. The lovers were very,
very, very sad. They cried all hours of the day
and flooded the earth with their cries.

16. The Bridge of Love
The magpies, a
kind of bird, pitied
the lovers. On the
seventh month in the
Chinese calendar, all
magpies in the world
formed a bridge over
the river.

17. The Bridge of Love
The lovers would meet and all the stars in
the sky twinkled their brightness as the lovers
enjoyed each other’s company.
-The End -

18. Discussion & Analysis
1. How did the story open?
a. It introduced at once the characters in
the story.
b. It gave a background information about
the “bridge of stars”
c. It gave an exact time when the story
happened.
d. It gave the names of the characters in
the story.

19. Discussion & Analysis
2.What characters does the story have?
a. Human characters with specific names.
b. Unnamed human characters.
c. Particular human and animal characters
d. Unnamed human and animal characters

20. Discussion & Analysis
3. Which phrase names the setting of the
story?
a. vast expanse of the skies
b. bridge of stars
c. band of brightness across the skies
d. the Land of the Stars

21. Discussion & Analysis
4.Why did the king become angry at the
newly weds?
a.The prince did nothing but enjoy the
food and music with his bride.
b.The princess gathered heavenly
flowers.
c.The Princess forgot to weave the
clouds.
d. All the above.

22. Discussion & Analysis
5. How did the king punish the newly weds?
a. He took back the Princess to the Land
of the Stars.
b. He had the Prince killed by wild
animals.
c. He separated the newly weds with his
magic wand.
d. He had the marriage annulled

23. Values Integration
• Based on the story grammar, why did the
king get very angry with the prince and the
princess?
• Did the princess and the prince respect and
obey their parents?
• If you were the newly weds, would you
obey and respect your parents?
• What must you remember when you make
promises?

24. Skill Focus
Use the story grammar to remember the
story details more easily.
Story grammar includes:
1. Setting – tells the place and time when the
story happened and the situation at the
beginning.
2. Characters – are the people who act in the
story.
3. Plot – tells the main event in the story.
4. Conclusion – the end of the story.

25. The Bridge of Love
Setting Characters Events
Time
Setting
Beginning
Middle
Ending

26. The Bridge of Love
Setting Characters Events
Time
A long time
ago
Setting
Vast expanse
of the skies.
King
(mightiest ruler and the
Princess’ father)
Beginning
The Prince and Princess fell in love
with each other. The king permitted
their marriage on a condition that the
Princess will continue weaving clouds
even after their marriage.
Middle
The Princess forgot her promise to her
father and that angered the King. He
separated the Prince and the Princess
which made them very, very, very
sad.
Ending
The magpies pitied the lovers and
formed a bridge where they would
meet and enjoy each other’s
company.
Princess
( beautiful and talented; she
can weave clouds that protect
the people from the hot sun)
magpies
(a kind of bird)
Prince
(from neighboring space
kingdom)

27. Remember
The essential part of a story are the following:
1. Setting, time and place where the story
happened.
2. Characters or the persons involved in the
story.
3. Plot which tells the main event.
4. Climax – the highest point of interest or
suspense in the story.
5. Ending or resolution of the story.

28. Application
Form five groups and let each group choose
one story which they have read. Present the
details of that story through the semantic web.
Title
Setting Plot Characters
Conclusion

29. Assignment
Day 1
Finish the activity at home.

30. Evaluation
Read the short story and answer the
questions that follow.
MindYour Own Business
There was once a girl who wouldn’t mind her
own business, but loved to poke her nose into
everyone else’s! She really was most
tiresome.

31. “You don’t do this right,” she would say to
other children. “You don’t do that right!” And
she would alter what they had done and make
them very angry.
She would even make herself a nuisance to
her teacher. “You’ve put that notice up about
homework, Miss Brown. Oh, Miss Brown,
wouldn’t it be better if we had painting on
Thursday instead of Wednesday, then we’d
have more time?”

32. “Katie, when I want you to run my school
for me I’ll tell you!” Miss Brown would say.
“When will you learn to mind your own
business?”
“Katie always pokes her nose into
everything,” said William. “When my mother
sent you a note yesterday, Miss Brown, Katie
opened it and read it before you did.”

33. “Don’t tell tales,” said Katie at once. “Miss
Brown, you don’t like tale tellers, do you? You
always say you don’t. Well, wouldn’t you scold
William?” “I don’t like tale tellers, it’s true,” said
Miss Brown. “But I dislike even more little girls
who open notes meant for other people, Katie.
One day you’ll get into serious trouble for
interfering.”

34. Katie was in her worst interfering mood
one day. She had told her mother that the
flowers in the vase were not arranged at all
nicely, and she had arranged them all over
again. She told her father that there was a
button loose on his mackintosh, and why
didn’t he remember to get it sewn tightly?

35. She had made the cook very angry
because she had gone into the kitchen to watch
a cake being made, and had felt certain she
could do it better. So she had done a little
mixing herself, and had upset the bowl of flour,
milk, sugar, and eggs all over the table.
She just can’t help poking her nose into
everything,” grumbled the cook. “Somebody
has got to do something about her!”

36. A. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1.What is the name of the main character in
the story?
a. Miss Brown c.William
b. Katie d. the cook
2.What did Katie do withWilliam’s mother’s
note for Miss Brown?
a. threw the note c. a and b only
b. tore the note d. opened the note

37. 3.What were the three worst acts Katie did?
a. Changed the flower arrangement,
loosened the button of his father’s
mackintosh, and did a little mixing of the
butter the cook is preparing.
b.Told tales to her teacher, quarreled with
William, and opened the notes for Miss
Brown.
c. Argued with her teacher, did things that
made her classmates angry and argue with
William’s mother.
d. All of the above.

38. 4. Choose the exact word that describes Katie
inside her classroom.
a. behaved
b. tiresome
c. nuisance
d. quarrelsome

39. 5.What did Miss Brown tell Katie for not
minding her own business?
a. One day you’ll get punished.
b. One day you’ll get into serious trouble.
c. Someday no one will ever like you
anymore.
d.You will regret your misbehavior.

40. Assignment
Day 2
Choose one fairy tale
story which you have
read. Present the details
of that story through
the activity worksheet.