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SKILLS TO BE EMPHASIZED
Integrated skills
TARGET STRUCTURE
Simple past; a list of regular and irregular verbs
in present and past tense.
TARGET VOCABULARY
Names of animalsdeer, turtle, rabbit, monkey,
giraffe, bear, lion, tiger, etc.)
OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson students should be
able to:
understand the story.
do the actions according to the teachers
direction.
answer the questions orally.
MATERIALS
Story A Tale of Two Animals (See story on
page 39.)
ACTIVITY 1: Warm-up
(Pre-listening, 10 minutes)
1. Show the students some pictures of animals
living in the woods: deer, turtle, rabbit,
monkey, giraffe, bear, lion, tiger, etc.
2. Ask the students some triggering questions:
Do you know some animals that live in the
woods?
Where have you seen those animals?
ACTIVITY 2: Presentation
(Listening, 15 minutes)
Storytelling
1. Tell the story, using pictures, appropriate
intonation, and gestures. While telling the
story, explain the diffcult words by using
gestures and asking the students to guess the
meaning.
2. Tell the story again and have students to do
the gestures with you. Later you can just repeat
the lines and have students do the actions by
themselves.
ACTIVITY 3: Practice
(Reading, 20 minutes)
1. Distribute copies of the story to the students.
2. Have students read the story in pairs, retelling
each part to one another. (5 minutes)
Think-Pair-Share (15 minutes)
Give the students some comprehension questions,
or write them on the board. (See sample questions
below.)
Comprehension Questions
1. Which animal was very proud of
himself?
2. Did the other animals like Kancil?
Why or why not?
3. What did Kancil think of himself?
4. Who did Kancil ask to have a race
with him?
5. Did Turtle accept?
6. Who hid behind a bush?
7. Who won the race?
8. Do you know how Turtle won the
race?
Think: First, ask students to think about the
answers to the questions individually.
Pair: Next, have students compare and discuss
their answers in pairs.
Share: Finally, have the students share their
answers with the whole class. Confrm the
correct answers during the discussion.
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The following story is an Indonesian fable in which the main character is
Kancil, a type of small deer who is always full of tricks.
A TALE OF TWO ANIMALS
Once upon a time there was a small deer named
Kancil, who lived in the woods. He was very proud of
himself. He thought he was the smartest animal and
the fastest runner. All the other animals in the woods
did not like him because he often made fun of them.
He liked to laugh at the turtle who always walked
slowly. One day Kancil asked Turtle to have a race
with him. The one who came first to the big tree in
the middle of the woods would be the winner. After
thinking for a moment, Turtle said yes.
The day of the race came. Kancil and Turtle were
ready to start. A lot of animals came to see them. Kan-
cil said to Turtle: You may start first. Turtle began
to walk slowly as usual. Kancil smiled. He thought it
would be easy to catch up with Turtle. After a few
minutes, Kancil started to walk proudly. However,
after walking for some time, Kancil did not see Turtle
anywhere. Kancil began to run. Suddenly, he saw
Turtle pop up from behind a bush a few meters before
him. Here I am, Turtle waved to him.
Kancil was surprised and he thought: How can
Turtle walk so fast? Kancil ran faster, but Turtle kept
popping up from behind a bush just a few meters in
front of him. At last the big tree was in sight. Kan-
cil ran as fast as he could. When he was just a few
meters away from the tree, Turtle again popped up
from behind the tree and shouted: Here I am. I win,
I win. All the animals cheered for Turtle. Kancil was
so ashamed that he ran away into the woods. No one
ever saw him again. The animals in the woods lived
happily ever after.
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SKILLS TO BE EMPHASIZED
Integrated Skills
TARGET STRUCTURE
Simple past; a list of regular and irregular verbs in
present and past
TARGET VOCABULARY
Names of animalsdeer, turtle, rabbit, monkey,
giraffe, bear, lion, tiger, etc.
OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson students should be
able to:
arrange the story in a good order.
write appropriate sentences for the characters
in the story.
MATERIALS
The story cut into strips
ACTIVITY 1: Warm-up
(Pre-listening, Speaking, 5 minutes)
Ask some review questions about the story to make
sure the students remember it.

ACTIVITY 2: Presentation
(Listening, Speaking, Reading, 15 minutes)
Story Strip Activity
Preparation: Write/type the story, changing the
text to present tense instead of past tense (as in
the version of the story in Lesson 1). Divide the
story in three paragraphs. Cut
each paragraph into strips.
(See Sample Story
Strips.) If you
have a large
class, prepare
more sets of
strips.
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Sample Story Strips (for the rst paragraph only)
The one who comes first to the big tree in the
middle of the woods will be the winner.
One day Kancil asks Turtle to have a race with
him.
He likes to laugh at the turtle who always walks
slowly.
All the other animals in the woods do not like
him because he often makes fun of them.
He thinks he is the smartest animal and the
fastest runner.
Once upon a time there is a small deer named
Kancil, who lives in the woods.
After thinking for a moment, Turtle says yes.
He is very proud of himself.
The Activity
Divide the class into three groups. Give each
group the strips for only one paragraph of the
story. Make sure the strips are not in order when
you give them to the students. Each group will
work together to arrange the strips of its part of
the story into the correct order.
Instructions to give the students: Each student in
the group should take a strip one at a time until
all of the strips are gone. Then each student will
take a turn reading the sentence on his or her
strip out loud. The other students cannot look
at the strip and must just listen. After all of the
strips have been read, the students, as a group,
must put the strips in the correct order to make
one complete paragraph.
After each group has arranged its paragraph,
the class should decide the correct order of the
paragraphs to make up the whole story.

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Activity 3: Practice
(Writing, Past Tense, 15 minutes)
Complete the Story
1. Have students rewrite their groups paragraph
in the past tense.
2. Once everyone has written a paragraph, have
students get up and nd two classmates with
the other paragraphs of the story. Each group
of three should have all three paragraphs of the
story.
3. In these new groups of three, students should
check each others work to see if all of the
sentences use the past tense correctly and are
in the correct order.
4. At the end of the activity, collect students
paragraphs to later correct them.
ACTIVITY 4: Practice and follow-up
(Writing, 10 minutes)
Play Writing
Prepare students for writing a play about A Tale
of Two Animals by discussing the characters
and the plot of the story.
In class, have students work in pairs to write
some sentences spoken by the characters
according to their part of the story.
For homework, ask students to write their own
versions of the complete play.
SKILLS TO BE EMPHASIZED
Integrated skills
TARGET STRUCTURE
Simple past; a list of regular and irregular verbs
in present and past tense.
TARGET VOCABULARY
Names of animalsdeer, turtle, rabbit, monkey,
giraffe, bear, lion, tiger, etc.
OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students should be able
to perform the story as a play.
MATERIALS
Stiff paper, markers, colored paper, glue, tape,
string; optional: large green cloth, large picture
of a tree for the wall.
ACTIVITY 1: Warm-up
(10 minutes)
1. Ask students to take out the plays they wrote as
homework. Divide the class into small groups.
2. Have the students share their plays by reading
them out loud to their groups. Each group will
choose the best play from the ones they hear.
3. After the activity, collect all of the plays to
include them in the students portfolios.
ACTIVITY 2: Play Preparation
(20 minutes)
1. Ask students in each group to volunteer for the
roles of storyteller, Kancil, and Turtle; the rest
of the group members will be the animals in
the woods. Groups of fve or six will work best,
but the size of each group will depend on how
many students there are in your class.
2. You and the students will have to do some
preparation before they can perform the play:
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Make masks of the various animals with stiff
paper, markers, colored paper, glue, tape,
and string to tie the masks around students
heads.
Chairs can be covered with green cloth to
represent the bushes.
A picture of a big tree can be put on the
wall.
Note: The classroom, an auditorium, or the
playground can be used for the performance.
Activity 3: Practice and Performance
(15 minutes for each)

Have the students practice the play in their
groups.
Schedule the performance for the next day
if students need to memorize their lines for
homework.
ACTIVITY 4: Follow-up
(Project or Homework)
After students have performed the play, have
them work in groups to write a short report about
one of the animals in the story. Ask them to tell
about the animals living environment, its food,
and other characteristics about the animal. Have
them illustrate the report with pictures or their
own drawings. When the reports are fnished, you
can collect them for the groups portfolios.
As a homework assignment, you could ask
students to write individual reports about one of
the animals in the story.
VERONICA L. DIPTOADI, PhD, a teacher in the English
Department and Faculty of Teacher Education at Widya
Mandala University in Indonesia, has taught English as a
foreign language for 32 years. She is currently involved
in an early childhood development project in
collaboration with Malaspina University-College in
Canada.