The Ugly Duckling

Let's dramatize a classical literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen!!

The ugly duckling
You may use handmade craft stick-puppets in order to act out the tale and help your students enrich their vocabulary on adjectives. You may even use this activity to teach the comparative and superlative form relatively to each stage of the tale.
Young and Ugly!

Still Ugly!!
 However, the main target of this activity will be to focus on subjects like acceptance, being different, determination, identity, assimilation, beauty standards, equality.
Teachers should encourage students to express themselves and make an analogy between the duckling's feelings and their own possible ones. Students should make sentences using the verbs thinks and looks to talk about feelings and appearance.

Thinks - Looks

The process of transformation
Good Luck,
Maria P.

Σχόλια

Δημοσίευση σχολίου

Δημοφιλείς αναρτήσεις από αυτό το ιστολόγιο

Poetry-based activities (conditionals) in English lessons- Part 1

Εικόνα
Rudyard Kipling - If If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream-and not make dreams your master; If you can think-and make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out-tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings, and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never b...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα

Spaghetti with meatballs activity!!

Εικόνα
Do you want to involve some movement and action in your lessons? You may use a big floor mat -you can either make your own one or use a ready made one by "twister "board game or "spaghetti twister" board game. The one I use is "spaghetti and meatballs" theme mat. The point is to have your students follow some orders so as to acquire new vocabulary items or new grammatical structures by putting their hands and feet on the proper colours. Some ideas you may want to apply are the following: 1) You can prepare cards of different colours (green, blue, yellow, red) with different orders aiming to practice imperative. e.g. Put your right hand on a blue meatball, put your left arm on a red meatball etc. 2) You can even make your own recipe by following the equivalent steps For example if you want to make spaghetti with meatballs you should:  -Step 1:put your left hand on a green meatball-Boil the spaghetti  -Step 2:put your ri...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα

Aesop's fables and puppets

Εικόνα
Yesterday was World Animal Day and this was a great chance to use puppetry to bring Aesop's fables to life in my lessons. Aesop was a master of telling morality tales based on animal characters, often with a humorous twist. His tales reveal our stereotypical views and the symbolic meaning of animals: proud lions, busy bees, industrious ants and more. The values of these fables can be highly underlined by the use of glove puppets or finger puppets. Look at some of photos of my puppet friends If you need any scripts on Aesop fables for puppetry play, you can resort to   http://www.kidsinco.com/aesop-fables/.  For example you may want to take a look The lion and the mouse: http://www.kidsinco.com/2008/08/the-lion-and-the-mouse/ The rooster and the fox: http://www.kidsinco.com/2016/01/the-rooster-and-the-fox/ The fox and the cat: http://www.kidsinco.com/2010/05/the-fox-and-the-cat/   If you have the classic books with Aesop fables you ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα