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__**Teaching/Learning Using Digital Story Telling**__ 1. Learner's context: Who the task is for?
 * The age of learners should be around 13 years old
 * Their English competence should at least be Elementary level.
 * English is their second language
 * The task is suggested for a class of 24-25 students

2. Learning objectives; By the end of the lesson the students will have:
 * learn the adjectives (attributive and complementary) through the mean of narrative
 * improve the students' narrative writing (i.e. story telling)

3. Focused skills: Grammar (attributive and complementary adjectives) 4. Integrated skills: Writing skills

5. Teaching materials:
 * Computer/ Laptop
 * Interactive whiteboard/white screen
 * Printer
 * Handout 1
 * Handout 2

Note: the lesson will go over two period as the task is a project based activity. First phase will be the introduction of adjectives and completion of task. Second will be presentation and students feedback.

6. Instruction for Teacher 6.1 Preparing the students
 * The students will have to be exposed to the functions of adjectives at pre-activity phase
 * The students will have to draft/plan a story about "A Lion and a Fox". They have to use what they have learned during the pre-activity and more previous knowledge on adjectives in order to do this.
 * The teacher will point out that, writing a narrative will help the students to understand adjectives better.
 * The teacher will then distribute handout 1 to help students draft their storyline/plot.
 * The teacher should tell them that he/she will want to see the correct usage of adjectives in their story (wrong usage will lead to mark deduction). Their story should not be less than 6 pages. The story will also have to coherent and clear.
 * And they should be able to present their work to the rest of the class

6.2 Conducting the activity
 * To students will do the task either in group or pair (depending on the teacher's preferences). A suggested number of people in a group would be four.
 * The students will have to go to this website to write their story. The application will offer 6 goals for the main character to achieve, however the students can also choose their own goal for the main character if they choose so. The students creativity is encourage here.
 * Ask the students to create a storyboard first using handout 1 as a guidance.
 * Ask the students to give peer/group feedback on each other's drafts. Handout 2 should be given to guide the students' feedback.

6.3 Concluding the activity
 * Ask the pairs/groups to present their work. Teacher reiterate that he/she focused on the use of adjectives, the coherence of the story and why they choose a particular goal.
 * The teacher ask the pairs/groups to post their work to the school website (optional)
 * The teacher gives feedback to the students.
 * As a follow-up teacher could focus on those areas where students had difficulties completing the activity.