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Activities:

Review learnt vocab (with flashcards): food, numbers, days of week

Activate background knowledge: “Have you ever seen a caterpillar?” What do caterpillars eat?” => fruits and leaves.

Prepare:

Theatrics: Gesture *eat*; Facial expression *I’m hungry*

Props: Teacher roleplay, using pictures

Script: use illustrations (pictures) from the story book.

prepare places in the storytelling for questions and predictions. “After eating through 2 pears, how did he feel?”

Rehearsals: Texts memorizing, practice...

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Q&A:

What did he eat on (Tuesday, Wednesday, etc)? (point to the pictures and ask)

What did he do if he was hungry?

Repetition:

… but he was still hungry “I’m hungry”. He started to look for some food.

Prediction: After eating lots of things, what would he look like? (He would be big and fat)

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T asks Ss which kinds of food they often eat when they feel hungry —> T helps Ss revise some “Food” vocabularies (apple, plum, strawberries, oranges, watermelon), which appear in the story.

T teaches related vocabularies in the story:

caterpillar

stomach

cocoon

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Teacher shows flashcards and introduces character: caterpillar

Teacher reads story while playing the character of caterpillar

Ask SS to interact with the story by putting their thumb up or down: Thumb up if they like the food caterpillar eats, thumb down if they don’t like

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Before storytelling

Review the vocab about days of the week (Monday, Tuesday. …), food (apple, strawberry,..)

Show pictures of the caterpillar, ask: “ Have you ever seen a real caterpillar?”/ “Can you tell me about it?”

While storytelling

Tell the story, and relate to students themselves: “Have you ever eaten 2 apples at the same time? Do you like eating apples?....

Ss predict the ending: “After the caterpillar breaks himself out of the cocoon, will he...:?

A. Die B. Stay the same C. Become a butterfly
After storytelling:

If you eat the right things, you will become a beautiful butterfly, be strong and healthy

If you eat the wrong things, you will have a stomachache

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MINI GAME "OOPS"

Teacher reads something different from the story and says Oops when they notice the difference.

Students recognize the mistakes and raise hands to answer.

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Pre storytelling
- Puppet/Pictures
- Fruit: Apple, Pear, Plum, Strawberry, Orange, Watermelon
- Cake, ice-cream, pickle, cheese, salami, lollipop, cherry pie, cupcake
- A big worm, a caterpillar and a butterfly
- Teacher prepares her voice, learns the story by heart
1. Before telling the story
- Introduce the character: the caterpillar
- Reviewing known words: apple, orange, cupcake,...
- Ask some questions related to the caterpillar: "Have you seen the caterpillar before?", "What does a caterpillar eat?",
2. While storytelling
- Start the story: When the caterpillar starts to find the food, he can see many fruits
-> T shows the pictures of fruits + reads aloud the vocabulary + does some actions (hungry, eat, ...)
- The caterpillar is still hungry.
-> T asks Ss to predict what will happen if it is still hungry
- Continue telling the story: the caterpillar finds some cakes
-> T shows the pictures of cakes + reads aloud the vocabulary + does some actions - The caterpillar eats too much -> T asks Ss to predict what happens next with the caterpillar.
- The caterpillar becomes bigger and what else?
- T continues telling the story: he builds a small house, called a cocoon
- T asks Ss to predict what happens next
- The caterpillar becomes a beautiful butterfly
3. After storytelling
- Ask Ss if the butterfly was beautiful
- A lesson for Ss:
+ The origin of a beautiful butterfly
+ The lesson for Ss: If you want to grow up and become more beautiful, you need to eat enough food
- Group storytelling

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Stage 1: Pre-story telling
1. Pre-teach new vocab: caterpillar, sun, moon, leaf, apple, hungry, the day of the week
2. Introduce characters + Elicit content of the story:
- About a hungry caterpillar who wants to eat everything
- Relate to students: Are you often hungry? What you often eat at home? You guess what he often eat? What will happen to him if he eat too much?
Stage 2: While-storytelling:
- Use visual aids to illustrate the story.
- Ask Ss guess what happens next in the story.
Example
T: "can you guess what will happen in the next morning"
Ss "On sunday morning, the warm sun came up and pop...."
- Ask students to repeat/ mime the key vocabulary/ phrase (but... he was still hungry)
Stage 3: After-storytelling:
- Implicit the moral lesson
- Ask Ss to rearrange the pictures to show the sequence of the story.
- Ask Ss to retell the story (pair work: SS A tells the story and Ss B uses the realia/ picture to act out the story)

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Group retelling

Meaning:

The life cycle of a butterfly: How could a caterpillar grow so fast? (He ate so much healthy food day by day)

Relate to Ss: How can children become bigger and stronger? (We need to eat healthy food everyday.)

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Before storytelling

Story: Hungry caterpillar

Preparing:

visual aids(pictures)

description of characters

combination of new vocab, expression and vocab Ss have learnt: caterpillar, hungry, cocoon, push his way out,...

Ask Ss to predict the content of today's story

Ss talks about their predictions

T elicits the answer

While storytelling:

T tells the story to Ss

T points the pictures and role play

T asks some questions to develop the story: “ what happens next? what do you see in the picture?”

Change the voice to fit the plot

After storytelling

Group retelling, or group work(reorder the story)

Game:Start and stop( T retelling the story with mistakes , Ss stop the T whenever they hear a mistake)

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Before storytelling

Introduce a character

T asks S: “ Do you know a caterpillar?” → T describe that it has green long body, It is very little and has many feet

“Have you ever seen a caterpillar?”

Review vocabulary about:

+Days of the  week

“How many days are there in a week?” -.............

“Can you name?”

+ Some food

Game: T show pictures of some fruits (strawberry, pears, oranges, plums)  and some foods ( chocolate cakes, ice-cream, cones, chese, salami, lollipop..) for students and take it out of S → T asks “ What food do you have?” → S name fruits they remember

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Stage 1: Before storytelling

Review vocabulary

1. Food by using flashcards/ pictures/ slides): pear, plum, strawberry, chocolate cake, ice-cream cone, pickle, Swiss cheese, sausage, salami, piece of cherry pie, lollipop, cupcake

2. Numbers and Days of week by songs:

Counting 1-10 Song | Number Songs for Children | The Singing Walrus - YouTube

Days of the Week Song | The Singing Walrus - YouTube

Pre-teach new vocabulary: caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly, look for, stomachache (by using pictures)

Lead in: Connect to ss prior knowledge: “Have you ever seen a caterpillar before?”

Stage 2: While storytelling

Q&A

- Point to the caterpillar
- Ask ss what color is it - green body, red head? What is it like? Is it big or small? Is it long or short?
- T: On Wednesday, he ate through three plums but he was still hungry

→ Ask ss “How many plums did he eat on Wednesday?”
- On Thu ... he was still hungry → T asks “What should he do? → ss might answer: he looked for some food

Repetition

-T says: “On Wed/Thu/Fri he ate through … but he was still …….”
- Ss say: “hungry”

TPR:

- rub ss’ stomach (hungry)
- pretend to eat
-nibble the cocoon, become a butterfly

Prediction: T ask ss to guess what will happen after the caterpillar nibbled a hole and pushed his way out

Stage 3: After storytelling

Group retelling

Game “Start and stop”: T retells the story with mistakes of number

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* Before story-telling:

Introduce the main character (caterpillar) + use the picture of a caterpillar to tell story

Introduce some vocabulary in the story (pickle, salami, lollipop)

Review the days on a week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday) (What is the date today? How many days in a week? What are they?)

* During story-telling

Use hand gestures/ Point at the picture to introduce a little egg on a leaf

On Sunday morning, out of the egg came a tiny and very HUNGRY caterpillar

Point at the caterpillar picture

Use gestures to illustrate HUNGRY

He started to look for some food (REPETITION)

Stick the flashcards of fruits on the board, and move the caterpillar to each kind of fruit.

On Monday, Tuesday,....

Ask the students to predict what happens next with some questions like: What is the next day? What will the caterpillar eat next? What happens with the caterpillar now?....

Ask the ss about themselves after telling the story to explicit the lessons (Should we eat too much like this caterpillar?)

He built a small house called a cocoon….

Use gestures to illustrate a cocoon and the process of becoming a butterfly

* Post story-telling

Process of becoming butterflies

Egg - caterpillar - cocoon - butterfly

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While storytelling

-Q&A:

T ask S point to caterpillars and use gestures to show how it moves

What does the caterpillar eat on Monday/ Tuesday/……………?

- Repetition:

T says he ate through…. But… → S says he was still hungry

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After storytelling

Group retelling: (T divides the class into 7 groups, each group retell one part of the story and draw a picture to illustrate, then 7 representatives of each group will deliver)