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CASTLE ADVENTURE

Module Storytime

Unit Adventures

Programme Outline

A magic key, accidentally obtained by the children in this programme, opens the door of excitement and unbelievable adventures to the children and the audience. The magic key takes the main characters, Biff, Kipper, Chip and their grandmother to a huge and mysterious castle where three beautiful but cunning witches reside. The King of the castle has been changed into a frog by the witches and now lives as a prisoner in the castle. Seeing the suffering of the King, the children and their grandmother are determined to save him from his misery. Grandmother turns out to be the bravest. She leads the children to fight against evil and captures the three witches at the end.

When watching the programme, the pupils are invited by the narrator to make predictions and respond to events in the story. The are also invited to exercise their imagination by inventing their own adventures in other settings like a pirate ship and the forest at the end of the programme.

Key Stage Targets To develop an ever-improving capability to use English - to converse about feelings, interests, ideas, experiences and plans (I.D. b) - to interpret and use given information through processes or activities such as matching, sequencing, describing, classifying, comparing, explaining, predicting, drawing conclusion; and to follow instructions (K.D. b) - to respond to characters and events in imaginative and other narrative texts through oral, written and performative means such as making predictions (E.D. b) - to give expression to imaginative ideas through oral, written and performative means such as constructing with appropriate support simple stories that show some understanding of ‘setting’ and events (E.D. c)

Communicative Functions 1. Draw attention to people and things and describe them briefly Examples: One was a black witch. One was a red witch.

1 One was a green witch.

I am a King, I am the King of this castle. The witches turned me into a frog. Help me!

2. Give a simple account of things that have happened and things that people did in the past Examples: Chip picked up the box. He ran into Biff’s room.

Chip picked up the key. They looked at the magic house.

The witch opened the door. Gran pushed the witch. Chip took the witch’s keys.

3. Ask for and give explanations Examples: Who lived in this castle? The King and Queen? The Prince and Princess? No. Three witches!

Do you know which witch it is? Is it the red witch? Or is it the green witch? It is the red witch.

Language Skills Listening - listen for specific information - predict the likely development of a topic by recognizing key words, and making use

2 of context and knowledge of the world Speaking - convey meaning clearly and coherently by producing simple phrases and sentences Reading - use visual clues, context and knowledge of the world to work out the meaning of an unknown word and a complete expression - predict likely development of a topic by recognizing key words and making use of context and knowledge of the world Writing - develop written text by writing paragraphs which present ideas logically - develop written text by using basic narrative structure that comprises setting, character, events and dialogue when writing about real and imaginary experience

Pre-viewing Activities 1. Give out the first two pages of the Story Section and the COPYMASTER 1 to the pupils before watching the programme. Ask the pupils to look at the pictures carefully and then read the questions in Part I of the worksheet. Pupils do not need to write down the answers Try to elicit as many oral answers to these questions as possible so as to encourage pupils to develop their prediction and imagination skills.

3 Possible answers: 1. Three witches. 2. Ask pupils to suggest as many places as possible. 3. One possible answer is that the magic key and magic house will take them to new and strange places. Ask pupils to think of their favourite adventures as answers. 4. Witches, monsters, dragons, old men or women, a family, etc. Encourage pupils to use their imagination. There are many possible answers.

4. Introduce the following vocabulary/expressions to the class if necessary: adventures, exciting, happen, glowing, magic, castle, nasty witches, yelled, pushed, threw, pirate ship and forest.

While-viewing Activities Make sure that the pupils have the COPYMASTER 1 and pencils on their desks while they are viewing the programme. They have to complete Part II of the worksheet which checks the pupils’ comprehension of the programme.

Post-viewing Activities 1. Pupils complete Part B of Part II on the COPYMASTER 1, Pupils need to write in complete sentences how Gran caught the three witches. Answers: a) Gran pushed the black witch and locked the door. b) Gran put a net over the red witch. c) Gran threw the green witch on floor.

2. Teachers give out COPYMASTERs 2 & 3 to the pupils. In Part III, pupils are encouraged to exercise their imagination and write their own adventure story. Explain to the pupils the situation they are put in and ask them to choose either (1) or (2) and then fill in the blank in No. 1. Go through the questions with them in No. 2 and give them one example to the list, for example, a dragon.

3. In No. 3, pupils are encouraged to use their imagination to describe what happened to them in their adventure. For example, if they saw a dragon in the forest, what was the dragon doing? Did they make friends with the dragon or did they run away? Remind them to use past tense in their answers to describe past actions. Pupils may have many different answers. Possible answers:

4 a) I fought with the dragon. b) I walked around the forest. c) I learned how to shoot in the forest.

5 4. In No. 4, pupils are asked to link up what they saw and did with the end of the story. They could have many different possible answers. After they have completed the answers, they can present their answer orally to the whole class.

6 COPYMASTER 1 Castle Adventure

Part I

Look at the pictures on the first page of the Story Section. Guess the answer to each of the following questions.

1. There are three frogs in long black hats in front of the fireplace. Who are these frogs?

2. Gran, Chip, Kipper and Biff love adventures. Where will they go?

3. Where will the Magic Key and the Magic House take Gran and the children to? How do you know that?

4. Who lives in the castle?

Part II

1. Who is the frog?

______

2. How did Gran catch the three bad witches?

A. Match the picture to the correct witch by putting A, B or C in the blanks.

Black Witch ______Red Witch______Green Witch ______

7 8 COPYMASTER 2 Castle Adventure

B. Look at the pictures in Part A.

Write three sentences to describe how Gran caught the three witches.

a) ______

b) ______

c) ______

Part III

Your Adventure

The Magic Key and the Magic House took you to a new place. You had a very exciting adventure there.

What did you see? What did you do?

You went to either (1) a pirate ship or (2) the forest. Write down what you saw and did there.

(1) a pirate ship (2) a forest

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1. The Magic Key and the Magic House took me to a ______

2. What did you see there? I saw a) ______

b) ______

c) ______

3. What did you do there? a) ______

b) ______

c) ______

4. What happened at the end? ______