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THEME 3 LEGENDARY FIGURE

FUNCTIONS
F1 Describing past activities and events
10 GRADE F2 Talking about sequential actions
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F3 Describing characters and settings in an event in the past
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The activity aims to have students listen, attentively, to the teacher and note down key words for use in
reconstructing a story in groups.

Materials and Preparation
The Chinese folk tale provided on page 73
As a preparation, the teacher photocopies the folk tale provided on page 73.

Procedure

1 Put students into groups of four or five.
2 Tell them that you will be reading aloud a Chinese folk tale and meanwhile, they will try to note
down, individually, as many key words as possible. Emphasize that they should avoid noting down
whole sentences.
3 Once you have read aloud the folk tale and students have taken notes, read aloud the same tale
again, allowing students to continue noting down the key words once more.
4 When you have finished, ask students to bring together their notes, discuss to reconstruct the tale
in a written form as similar as possible to the original one. Give them 10 minutes for this part of the
activity.
5 Then, hand out the copies of the original tale to the groups and ask them to compare their work with
the original.
6 Finally, discuss students’ works in terms of similarities and differences.

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