Eight Great American Tales

This year we'll read Eight Great American Tales. The book consists of eight very short stories designed to make you think. Some of them are sad, other are funny... but I'm pretty sure you will like them all.

Each story comes with activities to do before and after reading and a CD which contains a complete dramatised audio recording as well as interactive activities.



So how do we approach the stories??

1. First, you do the "before reading activities".

2. Listen to the story on the CD twice without reading.

3. Read while listen to the story.

4. Do the "after reading" activities.

5. Look up the words you don't know in the dictionary.



I will assign the tales to groups of students to give an oral presentation in class to the rest of the students.

In your presentation you will include the following information:

1. Summary of the tale

2. Your personal opinion about the tale

3. What you learnt reading and listening to it

4. How did you find the reading/listening practice? Easy/difficult?