Subject: Language
Topic: Listening and speaking
Overall Duration: 60 min
Class size: 30 students
Level: Beginner (Little to no prior knowledge of English)
Age:7- 8 years old
(Before I planed this lesson I found out if the story of pigs and wolfs will upset any of my
students and their parents and all signs a consent form to let me know that this will be
appropriate for me to use in this lesson).
Objective: In this particular lesson students will be tested on listening skills and this lesson
will extend their vocabulary and they will also be helped with pronunciation en sentence
construction during the lesson all will be done informally and orally.
Strategy: I will have the help of finger puppets telling the story of the three little pigs. When
students enter the class there will be a sign on the board telling them, there is a very
special guest (or in this case guests) that will be visiting our class for this lesson. The
students will immediately know to put down their bags and to come sit quietly on the
carpet where I will be waiting for them greeting everyone with a hand shake and a smile.
After telling the story I will then ask questions about the story and the students will answer
the questions, while doing this activity I will correct the students pronunciation and
sentence construction, after they gave given there answers.
Materials:
Sign on the board, letting students know a special guest is coming to our
class, and they have to be very quiet. (This is a rule I would introduce at the first day of
school, and continuously remind students of the signs and what every sign stands for).
Five finger puppets to tell the story of the three little pigs.
The character on the thumb is mother pig, the characters on the index finger, middle finger
and ring finger is the three brother pigs. And the character on the little finger is the wolf.
, The three little pigs
Once upon a time there was an old mother pig who had three little pigs and not enough food to feed them. So
when they were old enough, she sent them out into the world to seek their fortunes. The first little pig was very
lazy. He didn't want to work at all and he built his house out of straw. The second little pig worked a little bit
harder but he was somewhat lazy too and he built his house out of sticks. Then, they sang and danced and played
together the rest of the day. The third little pig worked hard all day and built his house with bricks. It was a sturdy
house complete with a fine fireplace and chimney. It looked like it could withstand the strongest winds. The next
day, a wolf happened to pass by the lane where the three little pigs lived; and he saw the straw house, and he
smelled the pig inside. He thought the pig would make a mighty fine meal and his mouth began to water. So he
knocked on the door and said: Little pig! Little pig! Let me in! Let me in! But the little pig saw the wolf's big paws
through the keyhole, so he answered back: No! No! No! Not by the hairs on my chinny chin chin! Three Little
Pigs, the straw house.Then the wolf showed his teeth and said: Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your
house down. So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house down! The wolf opened his jaws very wide and
bit down as hard as he could, but the first little pig escaped and ran away to hide with the second little pig. The
wolf continued down the lane and he passed by the second house made of sticks; and he saw the house, and he
smelled the pigs inside, and his mouth began to water as he thought about the fine dinner they would make. So
he knocked on the door and said: Little pigs! Little pigs! Let me in! Let me in! But the little pigs saw the wolf's
pointy ears through the keyhole, so they answered back: No! No! No! Not by the hairs on our chinny chin chin!
So the wolf showed his teeth and said: Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down! So he huffed
and he puffed and he blew the house down! The wolf was greedy and he tried to catch both pigs at once, but he
was too greedy and got neither! His big jaws clamped down on nothing but air and the two little pigs scrambled
away as fast as their little hooves would carry them. The wolf chased them down the lane and he almost caught
them. But they made it to the brick house and slammed the door closed before the wolf could catch them. The
three little pigs they were very frightened, they knew the wolf wanted to eat them. And that was very, very true.
The wolf hadn't eaten all day and he had worked up a large appetite chasing the pigs around and now he could
smell all three of them inside and he knew that the three little pigs would make a lovely feast. Three Little Pigs at
the Brick House So the wolf knocked on the door and said: Little pigs! Little pigs! Let me in! Let me in! But the
little pigs saw the wolf's narrow eyes through the keyhole, so they answered back: No! No! No! Not by the hairs
on our chinny chin chin! So the wolf showed his teeth and said: Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your
house down. Well! he huffed and he puffed. He puffed and he huffed. And he huffed, huffed, and he puffed,
puffed; but he could not blow the house down. At last, he was so out of breath that he couldn't huff and he
couldn't puff anymore. So he stopped to rest and thought a bit. But this was too much. The wolf danced about
with rage and swore he would come down the chimney and eat up the little pig for his supper. But while he was
climbing on to the roof the little pig made up a blazing fire and put on a big pot full of water to boil. Then, just as
the wolf was coming down the chimney, the little piggy pulled off the lid, and plop! in fell the wolf into the
scalding water. So the little piggy put on the cover again, boiled the wolf up, and the three little pigs ate him for
supper.
The Three Little Pigs Questions
Can you answer the questions about the story you have just
heard?
Who are the characters in the story?
What did the first Little Pig build his house out of?
What did the Wolf do to the first Little Pig’s house?