This document provides an overview of the topics and activities that will be covered in an English lesson about Middle Eastern folk tales, including: 1) Reading a Middle Eastern folk tale and learning vocabulary words related to telling stories. 2) Learning about sentence structures using "to + infinitive" and verbs that take an object before "to + infinitive". 3) Discussing tales and legends from different cultures. 4) Writing exercises to practice using linking words in crafting one's own folk tale. 5) Learning about the folk character Anansi the spider from West African oral literature.

1. Instructor: Tahani Al-Hammami

2. What we will Learn for Today?
• Reading about a Middle Eastern Folk Tale
• Word Builder
• Sentence Builder: to + infinitive
• Talking about Tales & Legends
• Writing a Tale: Using Linking Words
• Anansi the Spider

4. Word Builder
• Talk about • Discuss
• Pull on • Wear
• Look at • Watch/stare
• Shine down on • Emit light
• Go out • Fade away
• Go in • Enter
• Invite to • Ask politely
• Come over • Attend

5. Sentence Builder
V. + to + infinitive
(e.g. learn, plan, wait)
I learnt to swim when I was six.

6. V. (with O.) + to + infinitive
(e.g. order, teach)
He ordered the soldier to do it.

7. V. (with or without O.) + to
+ infinitive
(e.g. would like, ask, help, prefer)
I’d like to go to the mall.
I’d like you to go to the mall with me.

8. V. (with O.) + to + V. (with or without
V. + to + infinitive
infinitive O.) + to + infinitive
• Learn • Order • Would like
• Plan • Teach • Ask
• Wait • Beg • Help
• Agree • Invite • Prefer
• Try • Tell • Want
• Decide
• Promise
• Begin
• Refuse
• Start
• Offer

10. • One day • During
• After that • Immediately
• Later • Luckily
• Before • Finally
• After • In the end
• When

11. West African Oral Literature