Purpose: To help students learn and recall language in a group, rather than individual words. This activity also provides speaking practice.
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Materials: a reading text with which the class is familiar and has done comprehension tasks. Whiteboard and markers or paper and pencil.
Preparation:
Choose some useful chunks of language from the text that
summarize the events of the story. A chunk is a group of words that
together has the meaning and could occur in the language again.
Example beginning of story:
Last week, Jose didn't feel well. He made an appointment with his
doctor at the local clinic. When he went to the clinic, the
receptionist told him to have a seat in the waiting room.
Example language chunks:
didn't feel well
made an appointment
the local clinic
have a seat in the waiting room
- Elicit the story from the students.
(They should not have the story in front of them.) As you get them to
tell the story, write the chunks you want to focus on down on the board.
- Divide the class into pairs. If you have
a small class, a group would work as well.
- Learners take turns contributing one
sentence of the story at a time in pairs, using the prompts on the
board to help them..
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