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Learning Objectives: Avatar: The Legend of Aang

Level 1 – Getting Along With Others
Integrated Skills Development
Listening

SOKKA: Look! This is how you catch a fish.

KATARA: Sokka... Look!

SOKKA: Shhh... Katara

Students will:
 Learn about a scene and KATARA: But Sokka, I caught one!
the differences of the
two characters in Avatar: SOKKA: Ahh!!! I am wet!
The Legend of Aang
KATARA: Don’t be angry.
 Get a feel for sibling
rivalry in the listening SOKKA: You are so weird!
passage
 Identify different nouns
KATARA: No I am not! You are!
and verbs

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Listening Questions
Explanation: This is a 1. What are Sokka and Katara doing?
factual question. Refer to:  They are fishing.
“SOKKA: Look! This is how  They are cooking.
you catch a fish.”  They are playing tennis.
 They are fighting.

Explanation: This is a 2. Sokka catches a fish.

factual question. Refer to:  true
“KATARA: But Sokka, I  false
caught one!”

Keywords: Getting Along With Others; Popular Culture Level 1

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Explanation: This is an 3. [Tricky Question:] Sokka and Katara hate each other.
inference question. They  true
are having an argument but  false
they are obviously very
close.

Explanation: This is a 4. Who gets wet? Complete the sentence by quoting

reference question. Refer from the passage.
to: “SOKKA: Ahh!!! I am  “Sokka gets wet.”
wet!”

Vocabulary Vocabulary Exercise

Integrative use of listening, spelling and written structures
car•toon noun 1. There are many cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse.
a short film that is made by
2. I have caught a fish.
photographing a series of
drawings 3. Aang is very powerful / weird.
Ex. Avatar: The Legend of
4. They must save the world.
Aang is a cartoon.
5. You are so weird / powerful.
caught verb
6. He has woken up.
[from to catch]
to trap an animal or fish by
using a trap, net, or hook,
Reading Comprehension
or by hunting it
Ex. But Sokka, I caught
Avatar: The Legend of Aang is a cartoon. It is about a boy called
one!
Aang who is very powerful.
pow•er•ful adjective
a powerful person, Aang is sleeping in ice (冰), but one day he is woken up by Sokka
organisation, group etc is and Katara, who are fishing. Sokka and Katara are brother and
able to control and sister.
influence events and other
people's actions He then learns that he is the Avatar (神之化身). Aang and his
Ex. It is about a boy called friends must work together to save the world.
Aang who is very powerful.

save the world phrase

to make the world safe
from danger
Ex. Aang and his friends
must work together to save
the world.

weird adjective
Keywords: Getting Along With Others; Popular Culture Level 1

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very strange and unusual,

and difficult to understand
or explain
Ex. Look, I’m just saying
that if I had weird powers,
I’d keep my “weirdness” to
myself.

wok•en verb
[from to wake]
to stop sleeping, or to make
someone stop sleeping
Ex. He is woken up by
Sokka and Katara who are
fishing.

Reading Comprehension Questions

Explanation: This is a 1. What is Avatar: The Legend of Aang?
factual question. Refer to  a movie
paragraph 1: “Avatar: The  a cartoon
Legend of Aang is a  a computer game
cartoon.”  a toy

Explanation: This is a 2. Aang is not very powerful.

factual question. Refer to  True
paragraph 1: “It is about a  false
boy called Aang who is very
powerful.”

Explanation: This is an 3. How do Sokka and Katara know each other?

inference question. Refer to  They are boyfriend and girlfriend.
paragraph 2: “Sokka and  They are cousins.
Katara are brother and  They are brother and sister.
sister.”  They are friends.

Explanation: This is a 4. Where is Aang? Complete the sentence by quoting

reference question. Refer from the passage…
to paragraph 2: “Aang is  “Aang is sleeping in ice.”
sleeping in ice.”

Explanation: This is a 5. Aang works together with _______ and _______ to

reference question. Refer save the world. Complete the sentence by quoting
to paragraph 3: “Aang and from the passage.
his friends must work  “Sokka and Katara”
together to save the
Keywords: Getting Along With Others; Popular Culture Level 1

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world.”

Speaking
Integrative use of listening and speaking
1. He then learns that he is the Avatar.
2. It is about a boy called Aang who is very powerful.
3. Aang and his friends must save the world.

Guided Writing – Introducing Avatar (nouns and verbs)

brother powerful world cartoon girl

1. Avatar is a cartoon about a boy called Aang.

2. Aang is very powerful.
3. Katara is a girl.
4. Her brother Sokka thinks that she is weird.
5. Together they must save the world.

Special thanks to Nickelodeon

Keywords: Getting Along With Others; Popular Culture Level 1

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