This is an activity discussing narratives and exchanging information. It includes a reading and cloze passage exercise, video comprehension and pair and group activities.Start by discussing stories that we remember reading or hearing from our childhood. It could also be the story of a film.
Task 1
- In a group choose one of the tables A-D in the picture below.
- Familiarise yourselves with the phrases in your table.
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- Construct a story using the phrases in your table.
- Present your story and compare it with the stories from the other groups.
Task 3
Do you think that all these stories could actually be one story?
Task 4
Watch the video and fill in the gaps in the exercise below.
Task 4
These are the way that the phrases actually appear in a given text.
- Man eating Giant
- Sorceress
- A long lost king
- Throne
- One episode
- History, myth, and legend.
- Listeners rather than readers
- Performed by oral poets
- A blind man
- Real or legendary
- Changed and rearranged many times
- Multiple authors
- Their current form
- Stitching together
- Combined existing stories
- Into a single narrative
- Mnemonic devices, like repetition of memorized passages
- The chorus or bridge of a song
- Familiar to the audience
- Out of order
- The wrath of the gods
- Divine power and human insecurity,
- Jealousy and grudges
- Excessive pride
- Welcomed all strangers into their homes with generosity
- In disguise.
- With courtesy and gifts
- The perpetual guest
- In the middle of things
- Trouble brewing at home and gods discussing his fate