Reading folktales
Welcome to this lesson about folktales. You will find videos, presentations, and activities to read folktales.
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Activity 1
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Instruction:
Read and complete the folktale with a linking word from the box. Click on the pencil.
before as soon as while when during
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but however so who
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Help:
Remember some transition and linking words for telling stories
Feedback:
What´s the moral of this story? Write your answer in the Padlet wall. Like and comment on your partner's answers.
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Activity 2
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Instruction:
Read and complete the story with the linking words from activity 1​. Click on the pencil.
Reference:
Activities 1 and 2 taken from Soars Liz & Soars John (2003) American Headway 3: Student book. Oxford University Press.
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Activity 3
Instruction:
Write a Colombian folktale that you know. Write 200 words.
Help: Include the following parts:
*Beginning:
- There was once ...
- or Once upon a time there ...
*Ending:
-...and they lived happily ever after.
-...and that was the end.
- ... before it disappeared completely.
- ...and they never did that again.
- or ...and was never seen.
*Moral: If the story has a moral, give it to the end.
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Feedback
Upload the colombian folktale in the Padlet wall. Then read, comment, and like your partners' plublications.
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