Teacher's Notes: The Gingerbread Man
This is a well-known story that some of your students may already be familiar with. Depending on the level of the class, you may need to supplement some material before this story, or you may simply want to focus first on the Verbs to Review before starting. These are basic daily life verbs that come up often and are assumed to be known already. However, in some ways, diving right in is the only way to get the basic vocabulary to build everything else on. Teach all the new words first. You might want to do an acting game to review the verbs. Read the story as a group, stopping to check comprehension with questions.
The worksheets focus mainly on comprehension by having the students answer easy questions.
New Words
bake flour butter sugar ginger mix oven window-sill to cool of course catch sly alligator climb deep wet river swim cross meet
Verbs to Review:
live say want decide look jump run yell eat stop sing watch start take sit
Worksheet Answers
True or False? 1. T, 2. F, 3. F, 4. F, 5. T, 6. F, 7. T, 8. F, 9. F (accept true if the student explains that the alligator started to cross the river)
Who is it? 1. old man and old woman, 2. Gingerbread Man, 3. bear, 4. dog, 5. old woman, 6. Gingerbread Man, 7. alligator, 8. old man and old woman, 9. alligator, 10. Gingerbread Man, 11. alligator
How to make cookies: 2, 1, 4, 3
Sentences: 1. bake, 2. deep, 3. cool, 4. climb, 5. mix, 6. catch
