Teacher’s Notes

Easter Rocket War

Type of activity: speaking, writing, gap completion, 3. Ask the students to work with their original group
reading and write down a summary of their story. When
Focus: local Easter traditions the summaries are ready, do not check them, but
Level: intermediate and up ask the students to leave them for now.
Time: 45 minutes 4. The students will now get to know the actual story
Preparation: from which the phrases on the cards come. Give
– one copy of the Student’s Worksheet per out the Student’s Worksheet and ask the students
student to work individually and complete the gaps. Let
them compare and discuss their answers in
– one set of Student’s Story Cards per group of
groups and then check with the whole class.
three/four students
Key: Rouketopolemos, every year, Vrontados,
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1. Put the students into groups of three or four and 5. Ask the groups to go back to their own stories
give out one set of Story Cards to each group. and, on the basis of the completed text, make
Go through all of the cards with the students, any factual adjustments and language corrections
eliciting ideas about meanings (e.g. make sure they wish. Finally, ask group representatives to
that the students know what a ‘cannon’ is; elicit read out the stories.
that ‘Vrontados’ may be the name of a village or
6. Ask the students their opinion about the Rocket
town). Make sure that the students realise that all
War tradition – is it interesting? Dangerous?
of the cards are connected and parts of one
Old-fashioned? Silly? Would they like to witness it
complete story about something.
in person?
2. Tell the groups that they have to study the cards
and make a story using as many of the elements
as possible. Ask them to put the cards on the
table in the order in which they appear in their
story and to practise telling it. Monitor and help
as they do this. When the groups are ready, either
ask representatives to tell the stories in front of
the whole class or (if you have an even number of
groups) join the groups in pairs and make them
tell their stories to each other.

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