Primary EFL story retell (France)

In the second video, the class is shown working in groups. Each group of learners selects one animal as the main character for their story and prepares a page for each day of the week which can be described using the sentence frame: ON Monday the DOG was AN ORANGE PUMPKIN. The teacher moves from group to group to keep learners on task and to begin rehearsing the stories, while the doctoral student films these exchanges and also encourages pupils to tell the part of the story they are working on. In this way, a focus on the target language is maintained even during an activity which does not explicitly require it (choosing,cutting, pasting, gluing images). We see multiple opportunities for learners to practice target forms and for the teacher and her assistant to support and extend this practice. Pupils spontaneously help one another, actively seek to recall new vocabulary items, and repeat the teacher’s models. Once the stories are complete, the teacher has one group of girls recite the story in order, correcting pronunciation (individual sounds and intonation) as they work. She then asks them to practice on their own, and we see two learners working together, one displaying each page and pointing to the pictures on it, the other telling the story.