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Fairy Tales are a great way to teach English while getting your students' attention and interest and to make enjoyable teaching learning process.
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format.
1. Stories are very important for students in learning their mother tongue, and they are important in learning any foreign language as well. 2. Stories are very motivating, challenging and great fun for student 3. When students listen to stories in class they share social experience
4. Students exercise their imagination through stories 5. Stories also develop the different types of intelligences that contribute to language learning, including emotional intelligence 6. Stories address universal themes which go beyond the useful level of basic dialogues and daily activities
Narrative text is a text which contains about story (fiction/non fiction/tales/folktales/fables/myths/ mystery and its plot consists of climax of the story (complication) then followed by the resolution.
The following is rhetoric stages of narrative text: Social Function To amuse or to entertain the reader Generic Structure Orientation : setting of the story, it concludes actors, place, and time of the story. Complication: in the story will presented the problem or conflict it makes the story will more interesting. Resolution: in this case, the resolution will be given to over come of the problems. Reorientation: in this case, the ending will be given to close the story, it can be happy or sad ending.
individualized participants The use of material process (action verb) The use of some behavioral and verbal processes The use of simple past tense The use of temporal conjunctions and temporal circumstances
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PRE ACTIVITY In this activity the teacher gives some questions to build students knowledge about the topic. Here it can be oral or written. WHILE ACTIVITIES In this activity the teacher gives some questions relate to the text, the questions include of skimming, scanning questions to comprehend the text. Here the students will be divided into group of four. POST ACTIVITIES In this activity teacher asks the students to make a conclusion of the text by rewriting the story by using their own words. Here students do it individually.
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Have you ever heard of tale story? Mention the tale story from Indonesia and England? What story do you like best? What do fell after reading or hearing tale story? Is it happy or sad ending?
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Once upon the time there lived a neighbour, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit was a good shot and the bear, being very clumsy, could not use an arrow to a good advantage.
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Was the bear unkind neighbour ? Why was he unkind neighbour ? Did the bear give any meat to the rabbit ? How many children did the bear have ?
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English Fairy tales are easy to be taught in the classroom Fairy tales can help our students easy to comprehend the literature Fairy tales make the students interest in learning English
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Answer: Yes, it was Answer : Because, every morning the bear would call over to the other side of the hill to shoot the buffalos. Answer : No, he didnt. Answer : The bear had five children. Answer : The youngest bear kicked the ball of meat toward the rabbits house.