SNACK ATTACK (GEMMA GARCÍA)

STORY TITLE: SNACK ATTACK

A title engages the listeners imagination on a first level. Engagement is all important and we, as teachers should not miss a chance to engage our students.

STORY SEEDING:

The activity will be more about communication than accuracy. The use of any tenses and grammar will be implicit.

TASK 1 PREDICTION

Students predict part of the story using the next story items:

A grumpy granny, a vending machine, a train station, two packets of biscuits, a bench and a gamer.

The teacher as story manager. At this point, the teacher induces prediction by asking previously prepared questions or using cues such as I wonder if... That way the teacher allows the story to develop, stimulates possibilities, ideas, events, a story line.

The teacher will turn it into a student- centred speaking activity. The story and students won't be put into the corner it takes centre stage. TASK 2 THE MOMENT OF COMPARISON

Teachers should not improvise they should, at this point, help students with their language to tell the story. Help them find that word they are looking for. Help students induce accurate, rich language.

It is the moment when students watch part of the video not the end and compare their predictions to the actual story. It is the third moment of engagement:

TITLE - PREDICTION - COMPARISON

Students have the plot, the climax they need to predict the ending. After prediction they watch the full film and a number of question will put an end to this lesson.

That way, teachers will manage to develop the art of telling stories, they will be the means students have to be playful with the language not limited. TASK 3 THE END

In your own words:

What happens in the story at the end? What conclusions can we draw? How do you feel about this ending? Do you like it? Does it make any sense?

In general, we find it quite easy to talk about something that once happened to us.

A nice ending for the lesson would be for the teachers to give students a bit of themselves. Tell them about that one time an elderly person put your patience to the test and ask students to either write or tell a similar anecdote.

Has anything similar, ever happened to you?