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Pre-reading activities
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Activity procedure
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This activity helps
students recall what
they know about
traffic accidents and
recall relevant scripts.
They will later be able
to compare their story
to what they listen to.
Four pictures
showing a car
accident,
a
road, a hospital
and a person
carried on a
stretcher.
Different stories
will be devised
and the teacher
has to accept
every reasonable
one.
Task
1
8 min
Students work in pairs.
They look at some
pictures and they have
to use the pictures in
order to make a story
which will narrate to
class.
Task
2
5 min
Children are told that Giving tasks before
they will listen to a listening
helps
story. Before they listen children acquire a
they work in pairs purpose for listening
trying to guess what the and they create certain
story is about and how expectations
which
they think it happened. they will later confirm
They narrate their story or reject.
to the class very
briefly.
While-reading activities
Task
3
5 min
Task
…4
5 min
Children listen to the
story and confirm,
reject or modify their
guesses. Finally they
are asked to give a title
to the story. They
discuss the titles with
their
partner
and
announce them to the
class.
Students work in pairs .
They listen to the story
again. Now they listen
for details in order to
fill in a grid. The grid
contains some similar
information so they
know what it is