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Imagining you are the characters: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

I can imagine that I am a character in the story.

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Year 1

Imagining you are the characters: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

I can imagine that I am a character in the story.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Imagining you are the character helps to understand events and generate descriptions of the story
  2. Describing how a character is looking or what they are doing helps us to understand the plot of a story.
  3. Facial expressions and movements help the audience understand what is happening, such as fear from the goat
  4. There are different ways to express emotions. Facial expressions and actions help us to show feelings and emotions.
  5. The feelings we have can result in actions.

Keywords

  • Character - a person or an animal in a story

  • Feeling - an emotion

  • Emotion - feeling or mood

  • Expression - how people or characters show their feelings

  • Action - something that is done

Common misconception

Pupils may struggle to generate vocabulary to explain the expressions and movements.

The purpose of learning cycle 1 is to provide the children with vocabulary. Narrate how the children are feeling in their freeze-frames and get them to repeat. For example, you may say 'You look horrified.' and the children repeat 'We are horrified'.

If you are in a school or working with a large group of pupils, assign different roles to the children to act out the entire story. Initially, they should use only facial expressions and movements. Then, introduce a narrator to retell the story.
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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
What is a character?
what happens in the story
where the story takes place
the name of a story
Correct answer: a person or an animal in a story
Q2.
Match the word to the word class from this sentence: The old bridge rattled noisily.
Correct Answer:old,adjective

adjective

Correct Answer:bridge,noun

noun

Correct Answer:rattled,verb

verb

Correct Answer:noisily,adverb

adverb

Q3.
Which adjectives describe the troll?
friendly
gentle
Correct answer: mean
Correct answer: angry
Q4.
How are the goats feeling at the start of the story?
Correct answer: hungry
full
happy
sleepy
Q5.
Match the word to its definition.
Correct Answer:plot,what happens in the story

what happens in the story

Correct Answer:setting,where a story takes place

where a story takes place

Correct Answer:character,a person or animal in a story

a person or animal in a story

Q6.
Order the main events in the story.
1 - The billy goats are fed up of eating dry, brown grass.
2 - The billy goats take it in turns to cross the bridge where the mean troll lives.
3 - The billy goats get to the lush, green meadow and enjoy eating the grass.

6 Questions

Q1.
What are the settings from the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?
the house
Correct answer: the bridge
the beach
Correct answer: the brown meadow
Q2.
Which of these is a character from 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?
fairy godmother
Correct answer: troll
bridge
princess
Q3.
Choose an adjective to describe how the little billy goat feels when the troll appears.
bored
happy
tired
Correct answer: scared
Q4.
When the big billy goat charges at the troll, he feels __________. Choose an adjective to complete the sentence.
hungry
Correct answer: brave
tired
calm
Q5.
What are some of the actions that the goats did?
Correct answer: They crossed the bridge.
They stayed in the dry, brown meadow forever.
Correct answer: They defeated the troll.
They made friends with the troll.
Q6.
Which adjective describes how the billy goats are feeling at the end of the story?
lonely
disappointed
Correct answer: relieved
tired

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