MFEA-456 TG - Book - Page 172
III. Introduction to the story: The Little Red Hen
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Discuss the cover.
- Hold up the book and ask pupils: Is this book small? Is this book big?
- Ask a few pupils to hold the book and see how big it is.
- Show pupils the cover.
- Ask: What do you see?
- Use known vocabulary and language structures: hen, house, colors, parts
of the body, big, small.
- Ask pupils: What is the hen doing?
- Explain that she is working. Remind them about working on a farm and in
the house.
- Ask the pupils if this is real or imaginary. Ask: Can a hen sweep the floor
and clean the house?
- Remind pupils that in stories, animals often take on the characteristics of
people.
- Ask: What stories do we know where animals act like people? (Five
Little Monkeys, Goldilocks, Red Riding Hood).
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Discuss the title.
- Tell pupils the title. Tell them that little means small (use gestures).
- Ask: What do you think will happen?
First Reading
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Read the story and act it out using intonation, motions and gestures as much
as possible.
- Do not worry too much about new words - let the pictures and key words
tell the story.
- Make sure you point to pictures while you read.
- When you get to eating the bread, hold up the real bread and make the
motion of eating.
- Encourage pupils to begin to fill in words in the story and answer the hen's
questions by saying: Not I !
- Stop at page 13 and ask: Do the dog, duck and cat want to help eat the
bread?
- Ask pupils: What do you think will happen now?
UNIT 6 / LESSON 2
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