EL SOMBRERÓN

 El Sombrerón

 The legend of the Sombrerón (The Man in the Hat) supposedly began with a real villager. He dressed all in black and
rode a black horse and was a stern-faced, well-dressed man who harmed no-one. But when he died his spirit
became the terror of those who wander the streets at night and cause mischief (drunks, cheats, gamblers and
fighters) The Sombrerón is said to chase his victims through lonely, moonlit areas where he is sometimes
accompanied by two fearsome black dogs. This legend is told most often in Antioquia, although the “Black Rider”
and “Headless Horseman” often described in Tolima, Huila and the Cauca Valley share many of his characteristics.
 In the neighborhood of La Recolección lived a woman named Susana, a young lady,daughter of the woman who
owned the store. She was a very pretty girl, with long hair and big, hazelnut eyes.
 One night, when there was a full moon, she was on the balcony admiring the sky.
 Suddenly a short character with a big hat and a guitar approached her. Her beauty amazed him.
 He sang her a song, but at that moment her parents found out she was out and made her get inside the house.
Since that day she was not able to sleep anymore because this character appeared in the house or sang to her from
the street. She was not able to eat either, because every time they served her food it was contaminated with soil.
 Worried, the parents cut her hair and took it to the church so that the priest would put holy water on it and would
pray for her. A few days later El Sombrerón stopped bothering her.
 Culturally, the legend advises teenage girls to preserve the collective values of a society.
 Taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sombrer%C3%B3n
HOW WOULD I DEVELOP LISTENING SKILLS?

 I would do a read aloud and while the teacher narrates the story, and students
will fill in the gaps.
 I would invite a native English speaker parent to read the story to the students.
 Students listen to the story, write unknow vocabulary that they know and visit an
online dictionary to find the synonyms and listen to the pronunciation of each
word.
HOW I WOULD DEVELOP SPEAKING SKILLS?

 Students would recreate one scene of the folktale and act it out.
 Students would narrate the story by recording it.
 Students would record a video telling the story to another person.
 Students do choral reading while watching the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhZnNci4l6U
HOW WOULD I DEVELOP READING SKILLS?

 Students read the story two times and first just read story through pictures and
then they read the story with text and pictures.
 Students read the text with the teacher, and then students read the story with a
peer.
 Students scramble sentences and organize the story in a sequence.
HOW WOULD I DEVELOP WRITING SKILLS?

 Students would narrate story from the Sombreron’s point of view.

 Students would add a new character, write the traits and role of the character in
the story, and present a monologue representing that character in the story.
 Students receive a puzzle to solve. Then students would write the version that is
in the puzzle.