LESSON PLAN

Teachers’ names
Débora Ikegami and Fernanda Wielevski

Grade: 3rd year

Level: ( ) Elementary school ( ) Middle school ( x ) High school
Date:

No. of classes: 1 Period of the day: morning Class duration: 50 minutes

Content: Simple Past Tense/Past Continuous

General Objective: Produce a brief urban legend

Specific Objectives:

Contextualize the grammatical content through the theme and genre proposed – urban legend;

Comprehend the usage of past tenses in order to report events/tell brief stories.

Develop the ability of telling stories using the past verb tense.
 Teaching Procedures
1. In order to develop this activity, you should provide students with research
resources, so either have this class in a computer lab or make them work in groups
using their own smartphones.

2. Start with a brainstorm about urban legends. Ask students if they know any, and if
they remember the story. If they remember, give them two minutes to tell the story.
Say that they are going to work with a very famous one. (5 min)

3. Introduce the Hikiko legend to students. Explore their knowledge about recent
adaptations (Samara, the character from the movie ‘Ring’). Ask them to read the
text and check comprehension. (5 min)

4. Explain activities to students and ask them to do the activities 1, 2 and 3. (5 min)

5. Correct the activities, explaining the usage of the past continuous tense and
reviewing the simple past tense and the simple present tense. (20 min)

6. After reviewing the presented tenses, ask students to develop activity 4 in groups
of maximum 4 students. Instruct them to look for two different urban legends and
explore the aspects present in the activity. Then, let them tell each other the urban
legends and let them tell about the stories, focusing not only on the language use,
but also on the characteristics presented. (10 min)

7. Ask students to do activity 5 concerning their written production. Explain they are
supposed to create an urban legend, or retell one they already know, using the
studied content. They should start the activity in class and finish as a home
assignment. (5 min)

Resources Assessment procedures

Board; Students’ participation;
Chalk; Development of activities/productions;
Handout copies. Adequate usage of the presented content.

References
http://globalurbanlegends.blogspot.com.br/2015/09/hikiko-san.html
(HANDOUT ACTIVITIES)

Read the following Japanese urban legend:

Hikiko-san is a young girl. She gets beaten by her

parents at home, causing her to be slightly
deformed. This deformity causes Hikiko-san to be
bullied by her classmates. One day, it all became
too much for her and she committed suicide, though
some say she was killed by her father. Either way,
the girl comes back as a human hating spirit.

It is said that one of the boys from Hikiko's class

saw her spirit after her death. She was dragging the
lifeless body of one of her tormentors behind her.
When he told the police about it, Hikiko-san killed
him that same night.

Another story goes that she would attack the entire

school, decapitating people or pulling off their limbs.
She would drag the bodies or limbs behind her,
covering the walls and floor in blood. Anyone
unfortunate to enter the building during one of these
attacks becomes one of the dead. Afterwards, the
school would be shut down and abandoned.
Source: http://globalurbanlegends.blogspot.com.br/2015/09/hikiko-san.html (adapted)

ACTIVITIES:

1. Analyze the urban legend and get the following information from the text:

a) What happens:
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b) When it happens:
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c) Who is the main character:

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2. What expressions were used in the text to indicate time?

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3. A) Go back to the text and analyze the different verb tenses.

When describing general characteristics/events that are usual, the used

tense(s) is (are):
( ) Simple Past ( ) Simple Present ( ) Past Continuous

B) Give examples of the usage of these tenses creating 2 sentences

using this structure:

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C) When describing the events that occurred in the story, the used
tense(s) is (are):

( ) Simple Past ( ) Simple Present ( ) Past Continuous

D) Give examples of the usage of these tenses creating 2 sentences

using this structure:

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4. PROCESS WRITING

On the web, look up for 2 more urban legends, different from the
one presented above, and present them to your classmates,
exploring the following aspects:

• Characters
• Time and Place
• What happened?
• What are the consequences/ What is the message of the
story?
5. WRITTEN PRODUCTION

Now it’s your turn: think about an urban legend that you know or make
one of your own! Write a short paragraph telling the story (maximum
12 lines). Remember to use the studied past tenses! (Past
Continuous/Simple Past)

It all started when…

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