| Topic | Using Past Tenses in Storytelling | |||
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| Subject Area | Practical Language | |||
| Audience/Grade Level | Upper Intermediate and above university students | |||
| Purpose | To get students completely familiar with the uses of past tenses in storytelling | |||
| Objectives | Students will be able to use all tenses properly in telling a story. Students will be able to structure a story properly. | |||
| Learning Element | Activity Description | Method Used | Web Resources | |
| Frame | Clear, Measurable Objectives | Start by stating the objectives to students in a clear way - working with different tenses to form stories. | Present | |
| Motivation | Tell a personal story to the class with vivid detail. Emphasize the use of various tenses. | Present | ||
| Shown Connections to Previously Learned Material | Elicit from students the various tenses and how they might be used. | Guide | ||
| Shown Connections to Students' Lives | Ask students to work in pairs and describe an interesting story that happened to them in the recent past. | Collaborative | ||
| Inform | Content Presented in a Clear, Structured Manner | Have students go through the website reviewing the various uses of the tenses and conjunctions. Draw timelines on the board and ask students to fill them in. | Guide, Active Learning | http://www.vivquarry.com/wkshts/narrative.html |
| Have students go through the website and fill in the gaps with the correct tenses of the verbs.. | Present, Active Learning | http://vivquarry.com/wkshts/narrex1.html | ||
| Clear Demonstrations/Modelling | Give students short stories to read with the tenses. They then memorize their story and do a similar activity as the Telephone Game, where they tell the story to a partner, who tells it to another, and so on. | Active Learning | ||
| Explore | Guide the Students | Divide students into groups. Give each group 5 phrases that they must hide in a written story. As students write, circulate and try to assist with an emphasis on tenses. After finished, students read stories out loud and others try to guess what the phrases were. | Collaborative, Role-Play | |
| Have students go through the website and think about how to create a structured story. | Present, Active Learning | http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/course/course1/unit/shortstory.shtml | ||
| Inform | Review What Was Learned | Review timelines on board and other things learned in class. | Present | |
| Try | Allow Students to Perform Independently | For homework, assign each student to create their own stories. | Problem Based, Active Learning | |