A Story
for Preschool ELLs
Free ESL
Story and Activities - Part Two
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and welcome. If you have come straight to this web page you
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missing part one, which is full of great games with flashcards to
pre-teach the vocabulary in the story below. Please
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Here now is the story Hetty and the Lion along with the colour
illustrations, and some tips to use during the story telling itself.
Firstly before you begin make sure your children are familiar with the
key vocabulary as outlined in your first email.
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 free 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 a little 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.
- 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 the pitch you can make the
voice
loud or soft, slow or fast, breathlessness, sound sad or happy.
- 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. For example in the marching ants story you could do some
sound effects of the marching ants and 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, "Where is the giraffe?" or "Is
the bird 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 lion just a little
icecream.
Picture 8
And Hetty ate all the rest!
Link to the Colour
Illustrations for the ELL Story
The
eight colour illustrations for this story are at the link below.
These are A5 size - A4 size are also included for purchasers
of
the package of games and ten stories.
Hetty
and the Lion Colour 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.
In the next email I will give you ideas you can use after story telling
to give you opportunities to review the language and vocabulary in fun
ways. Of course the children will be happy to hear the story
many times over.
Do let me know how you get along with the materials and I shall email
you again soon with more ideas to use after story telling, and
particularly with more speaking ideas.
Kind regards
Yours
sincerely
Shelley
Ann Vernon
Teaching
English Games
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