Storytelling: Panda bear, Panda bear, What do you see?

In order to choose a proper book to tell to my students I have chosen “Panda bear, panda bear, what do you see?”  Because is a very good book to be told, read and to do activities about it.

This story has a repetitive structure which makes easy to the kids to remember it. In the structure, the animal that has being seen in the last page, not only answers to the question about what is the next animal that is going to appear, it also speaks about something that is typical for that animal, like swimming for the turtle or soaring for the bald eagle. The pictures, are also perfect for the students, because are similar to the ones that they would do to draw those animals.

To tell the story to the kids I have prepared a storytelling based on a song that speaks about a person going on a safari. It says:

“Going on safari and what do I see? A (Animal name) looking at me.

It says (Animal sound while we do the animal movement) and I agree with the (Animal while we do the animal movement again) looking at me”

We use the same repetitive structure that the book has, and we can also ask to the kids which one is going to be the next animal. The story is going to be told a few times after letting the kids have the handout. Before that we have to explain to the kids that the story is a bit different in the text than in the song, in order to prevent mistakes while they are reading the book by themselves. 

Here is a link to the song YouTube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awVrYAD7G4M

After listening activity: I can't hear you!

After doing the listening activities related with this eight actions the students will be divided in four groups.

Each member of the group is going to have a card with a picture of one of the actions that appear in the song. When the teacher gives the sign the kids will have to find the other students that have the same card that them, by doing the action that is drawn in their card.

Listening activity design: Aliens in a pub

Before listening activity:

To play twister game. We can work body and colours. Later, the teacher can add more difficulty to the game in order to use more than one part of the body. Also, if they work in groups and together, they have to put as many parts of their bodies as teacher orders in one unique colour.

After finishing the first activity the students will listen an audio file about an alien barman from a very famous astral pub, who speaks about the different races of aliens that are drinking in the pub in that moment and why they are how they are, also telling romours that he has heard about them.

This is not the picture used in the activity

While listening activity:

We plan this activity, talking from the point of view of the waitress. All the costumers are going to be described.

• Exercise: Complete the sentences circling the correct answer.
o "Burmecians, have big heads and are very smart because, they are always listening".
o "I have heard, that Bangass, always know what happen around them, that maybe, because in their heads they only a big, big eye!"


After listening activity: 

Complete this table.