Tell the story using the words given next to the pictures Your teacher will listen to you and then suggest you ways to improve your story Make another turn and try to use your teacher’s suggestions there is a little duck bathing bathtub one evening play, rubber human doll all the air escape, quick little duck, can nothing she, have an idea go back, kitchen blow up, rubber toy put a tape, head little duck, still weep Next, add these “story” words into your story: mosquito fly by land, head bite a hole think, the doll a real human duck, see start to weep mother duck, hear her crying come in, from kitchen see what happen want to help start to think see, rubber toy, full of air again stop crying happy again thank you, mother THE STORY OF THE LITTLE DUCK AND THE RUBBER TOY There was a little duck bathing in the bathtub one evening She was playing with a rubber human doll Suddenly, a mosquito flew by and landed on the doll’s head Then the mosquito bit a hole into the doll, because it thought the doll was a real human All the air escaped quickly, and the little duck could nothing about it When the duck saw this, she started to weep Mother duck heard her crying, so she came in from the kitchen She saw what happened She wanted to help so she started to think Suddenly, she had an idea She went back into the kitchen Then she came back and blew up the rubber toy Then she put a tape on its head The little duck was still weeping But when she saw that the rubber toy was full of air again, she stopped crying and was happy again ”Thank you, mother,” she said Notes for teachers Students have to tell the story (several times) using the story cues provided in the worksheet This is a "Grammar up!" task where students add the past tense, articles, plurals, conjuntions, etc to the story The repetition helps students slowly start to focus on the grammar besides the content of the story It worked for me across various levels up to intermediate When I want to impress a prospective new client, I often this task because it results in a strong sense of learning by virtue of students' speaking production improving upon each repetition Bless up, Kisdobos