English V - Week 7 - Narrating Past Events

Introduction: Hello everyone, and welcome to Week 7 of the course English V at Universidad Castro Carazo term IC 2024. In today's class we will continue talking about stories of survival and ways to describe past events in vivid and entertaining ways. 

Goals: In today's class we will

• Use narrative tenses (past simple, past continuous, and past perfect) to reconstruct a story of survival at sea.
• Create a movie adaptation of a real story of ocean survival.

Guiding Questions: By the end of today's class you will be able to provide a thoughtful response to the following questions

• How can I narrate events in the past?
• How can adverbs and narrative tenses help me add detail to stories?

Warm Up: Making Connections

Click the group document and follow your teacher's instructions.

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Task 1: Group Discussion

Click play on the video timer below and discuss the following questions with your partners.

• Can you think of any movies, tv shows, or books that are connected with the sea?

• What do you know about the story of the Titanic? 

• Why was the ship special?
• When did it sink?
• Where was it going when it sunk?
• Why did it sink?
• Where is it now?
• How was it discovered?
• Where is it now?

• Why do you think the story of the Titanic has been so facinating to people?

• Are you familiar with any other stories of disaster at sea?

Task 2: Reading Practice

Click the group link below and follow your teacher's instructions. We are going to complete exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in Unit 3 Part B in your ebook.

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Task 3: Storm at Sea

Click your group links below and follow the instructions in the document. 

• Group 1: CLICK HERE
• Group 2: CLICK HERE
• Group 3: CLICK HERE
• Group 4: CLICK HERE
• Group 5: CLICK HERE
• Group 6: CLICK HERE

Task 4: Real Stories of Survival

Now you are going to read a story about ocean survival. Click your group link below and follow the instructions in the document. 

• Group 1: Story A -  CLICK HERE
• Group 2: Story B -  CLICK HERE
• Group 3: Story C - CLICK HERE
• Group 4: Story A - CLICK HERE
• Group 5: Story B - CLICK HERE
• Group 6: Story C - CLICK HERE

Task 5: Film Adaptation

In groups you will chose one of the three stories and write a proposal for a "film adaptation". To do this you will need to include the following:

• Choose one of the stories
• Invent an interesting title
• Choose an actor for the principle character
• Write a paragraph narrating the events of the story. Be sure your paragraph includes:
• Past: Use the past to narrate a sequence of short consecutive events
• Past Continuous: Use the past continuous to establish context by describing what was happening at the beginning of a scene
• Past Continuous and Past Simple: Use the past simple to interrupt an event that was in progress
• Past Perfect: Use the past perfect to refer to something that happened earlier
• Add an image

Click your group link below:

• Group 1: CLICK HERE
• Group 2: CLICK HERE
• Group 3: CLICK HERE
• Group 4: CLICK HERE
• Group 5: CLICK HERE

Task 6: What Happened?

Let's finish with a short grammar practice about two mysterious stories. Click your group link below and follow the instructions. 

• Group 1: CLICK HERE
• Group 2: CLICK HERE
• Group 3: CLICK HERE
• Group 4: CLICK HERE
• Group 5: CLICK HERE
• Group 6: CLICK HERE