Aesop's Fables

​L.O:Read and explore features of fables.

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​What is a fable?

Is it Fiction or non fiction?​

Discuss what makes a story a fable with a partner.

Do you know of any of these famous fables:The Fox and the Crow,The Tortoise and The Hare or The Lion and the Mouse​?

​Watch A fable

Discuss what they may be about.​A fable is a short story that illustrates a moral lesson.

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​Ant and Grasshopper

Skim read the story silently to get the main ideas.

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Now read the story (Learners page 12)aloud in your mixed abilities groups.A paragraph each.

Do you understand all words​ in your paragraph?

Use expression as you read,so you make the meaning clear​.

Read the Glossary and write the words in your notebook​

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Explore features of a fable​

​Fables are short stories that teach a useful moral lesson. A moral is a good lesson for us to learn from

•         Fables teach you what to do and what not to do by telling you an entertaining story.

•         Characters are usually animals or people

•         A good, wise character, who follows the moral;

•         A lazy, or foolish character who does not follow the moral;

•          Usually set outside, in the countryside and habitats, like forest, jungle, desert etc.

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​Discuss the story in a group

Summarise the main ideas of the story in two or three sentences.​

In your mixed ability groups discuss questions on learners book page 13 b-f.

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Plenary​

Key Questions

What did you like? How did it make you feel? Explain why.

What did you dislike? How did it make you feel? Explain why.

Which passages/events were particularly effective or interesting? Can you explain why they were interesting?

Which characters did you like? Why were you interested in these characters?

Do they think the story may have grown out of the writer’s experience?

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