HETTY AND THE LION Greeting: Hello, how are you? I'm fine thanks.

Nouns: lion, milk, orange, apple, banana, pear, ice cream Verbs: drank, ate Other: would you like some...? Oh yes please, little Pre-story activities 1. Listening games for the first three fruits. Introduce the first three fruits and play Run and Touch. First lay out the picture flashcards, or the fruits themselves and tell the children to touch the fruit you name. After a few minutes spread the pictures out over the room and tell the children to run over to the picture you name. Next have the children make the shape of the fruit you name with their bodies. If your children are doing well you can introduce the other three food words and play the above games again either with the three new words or with all six words if you have children who are fast learners. Only you can know exactly how fast to go. Next play Show me, variation 3. In this game you hand out different picture cards to the children who secretly look at their card and place is face down on the floor or hold the picture into their chests. You can play some music for ten seconds or so and have the children move around the room. When you stop the music name one of the fruits and the children with that fruit must show the picture to everyone. You can add an element where when the music stops everyone must freeze and only those children with the picture you have called out can move. After you have called out all the fruits and vocabulary swap the pictures around and play again, or move onto another game. 2. Greetings Now you have given the children some practice understanding the first three fruits, introduce the greetings. Seat the children in a circle and take a ball. Ask the whole group, "Hello, how are you?" and have the group answer back with, "I'm fine thanks." Have the children repeat this back to you three or four times in unison. Now roll the ball to one child and say, "Hello, how are you?" Help the child reply to you with, "I'm fine, thanks". The child rolls the ball back to you and you repeat with each child. You can only do this with a group of 8 or it gets boring. With a bigger group put the children into pairs in the circle. Seat the two in a pair close together and have them hold hands, then leave a clear gap between the next pair. Now you can roll the ball to a pair of children and they can reply together, which cuts down the whole exercise by half. 3. More listening games and the rest of the food words Now introduce the remaining food words and play some more listening games. For a listening game that also revises colours name the fruit and the children call out the colour of that fruit. For example you say, "banana" and the children say, "yellow", etc. Children following the course of ten stories will know ten colours by now.

Musical fruits Lay out the colours of the fruits, and the milk on the floor. With a large group you will want several of each colour. Use the coloured feet or the Twister sheet, or whatever you have. Play music while the children dance around. Then call out a question such as, "what colour is a banana?" The children must jump on the colour yellow. This listening game allows the children to hear the words named several times in preparation for saying them, and it also allows for the revision of colours. Remember to include, "what colour is milk?" as well as the fruits. If your children do not know the colours then play musical fruits by just naming the fruits and food vocabulary in turn and letting the children jump on the correct pictures. You will need several pictures of each so that you do not have the whole group converging on one small picture. You want to be sure the children have enough space and pictures to move around and play without bumping into each other. 4. Speaking games You may decide to leave these speaking games until after you have read the story or for another lesson - it just depends on your group. If you feel your children are not ready for these games then skip ahead to more listening games where you introduce the question, Would you like some..? Mystery box When the children are ready for some speaking practice play some games such as mystery box where you cut holes in a cardboard box, turn the box upside down and place real fruits inside. The children have to feel inside the box and name what they can feel. Cut several holes in the same box to give more than one child a go at a time, and if you have a big group you will need more than one box. I suggest two to four children feeling in one box at any one time so if you have eight children one box is enough as the children can wait one turn. However if you have 12 children I recommend two boxes as you do not want half of the children sitting around doing nothing for more than a minute or two or you may start to have discipline problems. You can play a variant of this where you place three objects in the box. Two are matching and one is the odd one out. For example you place two oranges and one banana in the box. The children feel inside and name the odd one out. Hide and Guess game Play a guessing game such as Hide and Guess where a child picks up a fruit while hiding behind a blanket, and the other children have to guess which one the child picked. If you do not have a blanket you can let the child pick out a picture card secretly and hold that card behind his or her back while the other children guess which item it is. Listening games to introduce would you like some?

Moving on now from simple vocabulary words to the key phrase in the story, Would you like some..? At this stage it is enough to play a few listening games so that the children understand the meaning of this phrase so that they can follow the events in the story. Explain the meaning of the question first and with the children in a circle ask them each if they would like some ice cream, or some apples, etc. Let the children answer yes or no and if they answer yes hand them the fruit or a picture of the fruit and the children can pretend to eat it if they like. Play All Change. In this game, hand out the fruit and food words that the children have been practising in the previous games. Hand out pairs of words so that at two children have the same item. You then ask the question, would you like some apples? The two children with an apple or a picture of an apple change places. Continue through all the vocabulary. Then you jazz the game up by putting one child in the middle. This time when the two children change places the child in the middle must try to jump into one of the spots in the circle, leaving a different child to take the place in the middle. There are six food words in this story, which would mean that you could play with thirteen children - one being in the middle. If you have more than thirteen children and you have a helper consider forming two groups and let the helper look after the second group. If that is not possible then you will have to have up to three children holding the same cards. If the group gets too large this game can lead to chaos so more than 15 children and you must have two groups and a helper. If you have less than thirteen children then instead of handing out two bananas, two apples, etc, hand out all the vocabulary and ask, would you like some apples and bananas? Then the child with the apples changes places with the child with the bananas. At any time during the lesson, when you want to calm the children down or give them a break, you can hand out the black and white version of the vocabulary and allow the children to colour them. FLASHCARDS Here now is the link to your flashcards that you can use to pre-teach all the target language. You will find a colour set to use in the games. If you purchase the full preschool resource you will also receive black and white flashcards for colouring and a bingo set for each story. If you can use real fruits as well that is ideal for young children, but the flashcards can be helpful if you cannot access real objects and for some of the games where flashcards are more practical. The word lion is not included in the above games to keep everything to a food theme. You will be able to introduce the lion just before you tell the story.

Pre-Teach the word lion You need to introduce the word lion to the children before you read the story as that word is not taught in the lesson plan provided in the first email. To do this, show the children the lion flashcard and repeat the word to them a few times and have them say it back to you. Next ask the children to move around the room as if they were lions with sound effects. You can tell them to be a lion but whenever you clap they must freeze. Make them freeze for 10 seconds and say, be a lion. Next time make them freeze for only 8 seconds, then 6, then 4, then 2, then 1 second and that will make them quite excited and enjoy being a lion even more. Then you can sit the children in a semi-circle, show the first picture of the story and start to tell it Story Telling Tips Have the children seated in front of you on the floor where they can all see the pictures. The pictures are key to understanding so it is vital that the children can see them easily. Use the A4 version if you need to. Show the first picture and you can ask the children what they see, asking them to name the animal or objects. It is OK if the children use their own language to reply, but as you will have pre-taught the key vocabulary, see if you can also elicit the words in English. Start the story, using as much vocal and facial expression as possible, and acting out the story with gestures wherever you can. Use dramatic voices to fit the personality of your characters. Practise beforehand with high and squeaky, low and gruff and any variation in between. As well as varying the pitch you can make the voice loud or soft, slow or fast, breathless, sad or happy, etc. Use gestures. Hang your head in sadness or look worried and tearful, or happy as appropriate depending on the event in the story. Get the children to imitate the character in the story and look happy or sad. Add in animal noises, or a little song or rhyme that you might make up. Ideas for sound effects are given in some of the stories and you can have the children join in with you. Sound effects can be vocal or with instruments or improvised instruments such as clapping or tapping body parts of items. You can ask some simple questions such as, "What is the lion eating?" or "Is the lion hungry?" depending on whatever is relevant to the story. You can ask the children to guess what will happen next, and they can do this in their native language. The guessing game helps draw them in to be more curious about the story. If the children are engaged then continue to elicit vocabulary, and the guessing game with each picture. However you may also want sometimes just to read the story and only stop to ask a few questions here and there so that the process does not drag on too long. You can decide that each time depending on

the feeling you have in the classroom. Certainly reading the story should be enjoyable and you do not want to make a meal of it and spoil the fun by eliciting vocabulary the whole time. It is not necessary to insist the children sit tight; as long as they are quiet they will be hearing the words regardless. However if there is global restlessness then you are probably making too much of a meal eliciting vocabulary and dragging the story out, so you can tell it quicker and move on to an activity involving movement as a change from the quiet sitting period. The Story - Hetty and the Lion Picture 1 "Hello lion, how are you?" "I'm fine thanks Hetty, how are you?" "I'm fine thanks, would you like some milk?" Picture 2 "Oh yes please", said the lion, and the lion drank all the milk, and Hetty had none. "Lion, would you like some oranges?" Picture 3 "Oh yes please", said the lion, and the lion ate all the oranges, and Hetty had none. "Lion, would you like some apples?" Picture 4 "Oh yes please", said the lion, and the lion ate all the apples, and Hetty had none. "Lion, would you like some bananas?" Picture 5 "Oh yes please", said the lion, and the lion ate all the bananas and Hetty had none. "Lion, would you like some pears?" Picture 6 "Oh yes please", said the lion, and the lion ate all the pears and Hetty had none. "Lion, would you like some ice cream?" Picture 7 "Oh yes please", said the lion, so Hetty gave the lion just a little icecream. Picture 8 And Hetty ate all the rest! Link to the Story Illustrations in Colour

http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/3-5/2.htm Visit the above link and scroll down until you see the heading for the Story Illustrations. A black and white version for colouring of these illustrations, and for all ten stories, is included in the product for purchasers. Now you have everything you need to tell this story: games and ideas to pre-teach all the target vocabulary, flashcards to do that, the story itself, tips for story telling, and the colour illustrations.