We do a lot of activities with plots - we read and translate them, write our own ones at home, write them line-by-line, retell, guess which movie or book it was, correct other students' writings (for stronger students) etc. We do cross-reading-retelling with plots made by the teacher or composed by students (one student reads the plot, the other retells it). And so on and so on. It's a great practice and in the middle of Book 1 they need just ten more new words to become able to rephrase nearly every story in the world!

Useful extra lexics (outside the textbook): travel, run away, leave, catch, get better, fall ill, become, island, find, save.

Here are some stories ready to be used at the lesson.

Guess what movies these are:

1) ЕЕЕЕЕЕ.
An old woman makes a round white bread for her husband. The bread doesn't want the old man to eat him, so he runs away from home and travels in the forest. A rabbit doesn't catch him, a wolf doesn't catch him, a bear doesn't catch him either. At last a fox catches and eats the round bread.

2) ЕЕЕЕЕЕ
A young doctor likes travelling very much. He takes a ship and travels across the sea, but the ship gets into a storm. The man finds himself in a far island. He builds a house, learns to make bread and hunt animals. He also finds a friend to live together. He lives  at this island for about twenty years until some people from a Spanish ship see him and take to England.

3) ЕЕЕЕЕЕ.
A young man doesn't walk for thirty years. His legs don't work. His parents are very unhappy about this fact. One night a group of travellers come to their house. They treat the young man and he gets well. The young man finds a good horse for himself, leaves his home and becomes a national hero. He saves many good people and kills many bad ones.

4) ЕЕЕЕЕЕ.
An army of creatures from another planet comes to the Earth. They kill people and catch them. Nobody knows what to do. Earth microbes save people - all the creatures fall ill and die.

5) ЕЕЕЕЕЕ.
A very clever scientist brings a dead man back to life. The dead man runs away and kills some people in the town. At last he kills the scientist which gave his second life to him.

6) ЕЕЕЕЕЕ
A small man with red hair and a propeller on his back lives in the capital of Sweden (which has got a population of about two million people). The man has a friend, a little boy, to play and have fun together.

7) ЕЕЕЕЕЕ.
A family of cave people live in a cave. They've got tables and chairs of stone, a stone bath, a stone lavatory and a stone telephone. They play stone balls and cut with stone knives. They pay with stone credit cards. They wear primitive clothes and sandals. They ride a pet dinosaur.

some more...


ЕЕЕЕЕЕ.
An old man and an old woman live at the sea. The old man fishes and the old woman cleans the house. He catches a wonderful golden fish. She can speak and asks him to put her back into the sea. She wants to pay for her freedom, but the old man doesn't want her money. The old woman is very angry.

ЕЕЕЕЕЕ
A scientist finds some dinosaur eggs and gets baby dinosaurs out of them. He buys an island and makes a great safari park. People can travel around the park in jeeps and look at dinosaurs. He invites many scientists from different countries to see them. Dinosaurs break the houses, the jeeps and everything in the park. People run away and leave the island for the dinosaurs.

ЕЕЕЕЕЕ.
There is a small girl . Her granny is very ill. She lives in another village. The girl's mother asks her daughter to take some food to her granny. The girl walks across the forest and meets a wolf. He doesn't eat the girl. He says he wants to visit her granny too. So he runs fast to the granny's house, eats the old woman and climbs into her bed. When the girl comes he eats the girl, but some lumberjacks hear them and run to help the girl. They catch the wolf, kill him and cut his body - and the girl and her granny come out happily.

ЕЕЕЕЕЕ
A king's wife dies and leaves her husband with a small daughter. After some time he finds another wife. The woman is very beautiful, but she's not kind and doesn't like anybody. She doesn't like the young princess because she thinks the girl is too beautiful. So she tries to kill the princess. The girl runs away to the forest and finds a house where seven strong warriors live. They welcome the girl and call her their sister. The girl's boyfriend looks for her around the country. And the queen looks for her too. She finds the princess and kills her, but the boyfriend kisses the girl and she gets well.

 

an here is a follow-up exercise on verb forms

TRANSLATION

путешествовать ___________________
ловит ___________________
не ловит ___________________
строить ___________________
ходим (пешком) ___________________
не ходим (пешком) ___________________
не путешествую ___________________
сбежать, убежать ___________________
садимс¤ на корабль ___________________
строим ___________________
спасаете ___________________
спасать ___________________
выздоравливать ___________________
не боюсь ___________________
не езжу верхом ___________________
не ходите по магазинам ____________
находит ___________________
не находит ___________________
много спать ___________________
ищет пропитание ___________________
не ищет пропитание ___________________
носить дорогую одежду ______________
не ест ___________________
путешествует ___________________
не ловлю ___________________
заболеть ___________________

болеть ___________________
не болеет __________________
ловить ___________________
сбегает, убегает ___________________
не строите ___________________
ходить (пешком) ___________________
покидаем ___________________
не делаетс¤, не становитс¤ ________
отличатьс¤ от ___________________
резать ___________________
ходить по магазинам ____________
искать ___________________
находить ___________________
лечит ___________________
не спасаете ___________________
выздоравливает ___________________
не отличаюсь от ___________________
покидать, оставл¤ть ____________
делатьс¤, становитьс¤ ___________
много есть ___________________
имеют ___________________
езд¤т верхом ___________________

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