Storytelling Workshop

Learning through Stories

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Story maker

What do you see?

How far do you need to run in a marathon?

10 Kms 26.2 Kms 42.195 Kms 3 Kms 18 Kms

The Marathon Runner Must Be …

True or False Healthy Weak Dedicated Unfit Determined Under 25 Lucky Motivated Crazy!

The Olympics

The first Olympics were held over 2,700 years ago. Can you answer these questions about the Ancient Olympics? Use this site from BBC Schools to help you: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/olympia/index.shtml

The Ancient Olympics

Where did the Ancient Olympics take place? Why did they happen? How often did they take place and how long

did they last? How many events were there in the first

Olympic Games? Who could perform in the early Games? What could women do?

Write three facts you now know about the marathon race

Homework - Find out: Who is Israel’s fastest Marathon Runner? How old is he? Where does he live? Who is the fastest Marathon Runner in the

world?

BritLit

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Orange Juice Pre-reading

Try to guess the answers to the following questions:

1. Who is the man? 2. What is he doing? 3. Where do you think the

story takes place? 4. What is it about? 5. Who else is involved?

Read and listen to the first part of the poem

We get orange juicedelivered to our doorwith the milk,on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.We get one pint of milkone carton of orange juice.So,one Monday morningI go out thereand there's one pint of milkandno orange.

The narrator doesn’t get the orange juice delivered. What reasons can you think of to

explain why there is no orange juice?

While reading

Cloze activity

What do you think the plan was? Suggest different ways to finish the sentence.

If someone stole my orange juice, I would …

Thank you and enjoy telling stories!