Oxford Primary Skills Unit Teaching Notes Oxford University Press 1 Lesson objectives

8 Match the pairs of sentences to make parts of a 
story.
Read the text in the blue box. Ask the children which of 
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the four expressions are used in the story above.
Look at Exercise 8. Ask the children to work individually to 
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match the pairs of sentences.
Let them check their answers in pairs, then check the 
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answers as a class.
Key
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b
 2 
d
 3 
a
 4 
c
9 Write a story about someone who finds 
something. Use adjectives or actions to express 
people’s feelings, and use these questions to 
help you.
Tell the children that they are going to write their own 
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short story. Give them a few minutes to read the questions 
in the green box and to think of some ideas. Let them do 
this in pairs.
Then ask the class the questions, and let the pairs tell you 
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their ideas. This will help any children who are struggling 
to think of ideas. Focus particularly on how the main 
character feels, and ask the children how they can show 
these feelings in their stories.
When you think the children are ready, ask them to write 
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their stories.
When they have finished, let volunteers read their stories 
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to the class. Alternatively, divide the class into small 
groups and let the children read their stories to the group.
Reading (optional extension activity)
Find some stories in a book or on the Internet. Choose 
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stories that are simple and very short; traditional stories 
may work well. Copy the stories for the children and read 
them as a class.
Put the children into small groups and ask each group to 
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choose one of the stories and act it out for the class.

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