03.+Developing+Written+Skills

=**THEME 3:** **DEVELOPING WRITTEN SKILLS** =

There are four different types of texts: descriptive, narrative, expository, and argumentative. Narrative text are based on perception in time, is the telling of a story; the succession of certain events. Stories are an important aspect of culture and they are of ancient origin. Storytelling was probably one of the earliest forms of entertainment. Narrative may also refer to psychological processes in self-identity, memory and meaning-making.
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All the stories have the same elements: - Characters - Plot - Setting

This document will help you to understand better each element of the story:

There are different ways to narrate a story, books are the most usual way, but we can also narrate a story through a song, a game, or even withour words, using a dance.

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Songs:

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Dance: media type="youtube" key="UCF0zvfZJYQ" width="425" height="350" media type="youtube" key="_TsR1yiAe9g" width="425" height="350"

Resources:

Contemporary Understanding of the Reading Process and Reading Strategies Used by ESOL Learners While Reading a Written Discourse
= Style in fiction: a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose - LEECH, G. = = A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry - Geoffrey N. Leech =

=__ **TASK 3** __=

For this task we had to read a lot of books, and we had these two documents to help us remember what we had read:



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We had to plan our lesson using the story of the ¨Three Little Friends¨ wich is similar to the story of the ¨Three Little Pigs¨ from Disney.

Materials: Group 3 wiki

¨Three Little Friends¨ Tale: Session Template: Group presentation:



Idividual Essay: