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Teaching Short Story: The Fisherman and The Genie
Teaching Short Story: The Fisherman and The Genie
Teaching Short Story: The Fisherman and The Genie
-Yubaraj Neupane
Course Facilitator
Pre-reading activities
Setting the scene
Play the video for 1 minute on http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Idhb8
UqE0&list=PLGrNcSUFWUwmG3mLQ1eH
OMQWBm1jvEUnR
Group division
Can you match the meaning of these
words?
seashore, weighed, dejected, sealed,
merchant, precious, genie, disgraceful
measured, closed, seaside, businessperson,
valuable, shameful, unhappy, spirit
(Pre-teach Vocabularies)
to
How did the fisherman put the genie in the pot again?
centuries
captive
expectations
vowed
pleaded
vain and so on.
Post-reading activity/ies
Home assignment
Which character do you like most
and why? Write a paragraph in about
100-120 words in group.
(For developing critical commentary
habit from the beginning boys would
favour the genie while the girls write for
the fisherman.)
Plan B
Use the story on Page no 111 if the
video/internet doesnt work. Other
activities would be similar.