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We are working with fairy tales again..but witha twist in their tails! Becasue for this acitivity you will need to work with the book by Roald Dhal "Revolting Rhymes", which contains fairy tales, made poems and with unusual endings! You may also need to download the videos of these tales from YouTube (you can use a program called "atube catcher"); here are the links to the videos, just in case you can't get them! :)

• The 3 little pigs : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5DS2DnsJ04
• Cinderella: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtXGmnR9F5Y&feature=related
• Snow white: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUlq2OA_Z0M&feature=related
• Jack and the beanstalk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpAoCUN4toE&feature=related
• Little red riding hood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3uVQIhSYfY&feature=related
• The 3 little bears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO2Ivw2S-BQ&feature=related

The activity is aimed at adolescents or adults, with an intermediate or advanced level of English

WARMER:

• It's better to read the stories first in class, so the students are familiar with them and, more important, with the vocabulary.
• You may do several copies of the stories (It's not the ideal thing, but books are very expensive nowadays!) and give one to different groups of no more than 4 students.
• The students are to read the poems and look for the new vocabulary
• A piece of advice: tell them not to share the stories with the other groups, just for now!
• Tell them they have to write down any differences they may find between the original versions, or the versions they may know, of the fairy tales and Dahl's versions.

LESSON:

• Take your students to the computer room
• Previously, be sure to have all the videos on the computers desktops!!
• Group them in 3 or 2
• Tell them they have to prepare a quiz for their partners, about the story they have read, and, of course, they have to use the video and the program ESLvideo
• Give an explanation on how to use this tool and be sure everybody has understood it!
• Check your students's work before the upload
• As you have to have an account to work on this site, you can create one and let your students use it, just for this time and activity
• Once the quizzes were created and checked, tell your students they have to upload them
• After that, they have to "swap" the quizzes, by changing seats with their partners; you can organize that by making a "raffle"
• They have to solve their partners' quizzes

LAST PART

• After solving the quizzes and check the results, they have to go back to the classroom
• There, they have to create a different ending for the story they have originally read at the beginning of the lesson
• The paper has to be handed in, with all the names of the students of the group

EVALUATION:

• Students will be evaluated in 3 different skills:
• Reading: reading and understanding the sotries; reading and understanding the quizzes
• Writing: writing the quizzes, writing the differeent ending for the story
• Listening: interpretation of the video and resolution of the quizz

Enjoy it! :)