Retell the Story from a Different Perspective: Communicative Follow Up

(TESOL Ideas--Communicative Follow Up)

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One communicative follow up for reading or listening lessons is to retell the same story from a different perspective.  This, obviously, is most appropriate for reading or listening texts that have some sort of a narrative element to them.

Here is an example from the Impact 3 textbook.  In this listening, the students have to watch a video in which explorer Paul Nicklen is talking about his encounter with a leopard seal.  For the communicative follow up, the students have to write the story from the perspective of the leopard seal:

You have listened to a video describing the story from the perspective of Paul Nicklen.  But how do you think the story would sound if it was the leopard seal who was telling the story?  Write the same story, but from the perspective of the leopard seal.

Hello.  My name is Sally, and I’m a leopard seal from Antarctica.  One day I was swimming, when I saw this strange looking human in the water…

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