FORUM : A Story-Based Framework for a Primary School Classroom

The framework of two story-based lessons provided extra language practice by supplementing course material and engaging students in a variety of activities that involvedconsolidating vocabulary and structures and also practicing microskills. The lessons seemedto be motivating and interesting and exercised both the students’ imagination and their languageskills. The stories (a) aroused students’curiosity and made them want to find outmore about the text, and (b) provided a starting point for related language activities todevelop both receptive and productive skills. The lessons also promoted vocabulary recycling, as they allowed the teacher to introduce and revise vocabulary.