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Reading folktales 

Welcome to this lesson about folktales. You will find videos, presentations, and activities to read folktales. 

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Keyboard and Mouse

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

Transition Word Lists for Narrative Writ

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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Activity 4

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Now let's read arabian folktales.  Listen and read "Ali Baba and the forty thieves."

Instructions:

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* Answer preview questions before reading each chapter.

* Answer review questions after reading each chapter.

* Type your answers in this Word doc.

* Make a grapich dictionary including 30 words your learnt while reading the story.

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Help

Here you can listen to the tale while you read it. This helps you improve your pronunciation and listening skills.

Chapter 1_Robbers' cave
00:00 / 04:19
Chapter 2_Dead body
00:00 / 04:08
Chapter 3_Forty jars of oil
00:00 / 03:29

Feedback

Upload the reading comprehension exercise and the graphic dictionary in this Padlet wall.

Get feedback from your teacher after you upload your assignments.

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Reference

Methold K. (2008) The Arabian Nights. Compass Publishing. Korea

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