Do and Understand 50 action stories For young learners FY LONGMAN‘Addison Wesley Longman Limited Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex, CM20 2JE, England, and Associated Companies throughout the world. © in the original edition by OBV Padagogischer Verlag GmbH., Vienna 1994 This edition © Addison Wesley Longman Limited 1996 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers, or a licence permitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P OBR. However, copies of pages indicated by a copynght line may be made without fee or prior permission, provided that these copies are used only for class sets, and solely within the institution for which the work is purchased. This edition first published 1996 by arrangement with OBV Padagogischer Verlag GmbH. ‘Second impression 1997 IMustrated by Svjetlan Junakovie, Zagreb Produced for the publishers by Sally Henry Set in Helvetica Produced through Longman Malaysia, ACM ISBN 0582 29896 2Contents Introduction "| 1 What is Do and Understand? - 2 How do children learn? . — 9.4 How do children learn t? talk in the mother tongue? ............04 4 2.2 Teaching children a foreign language ...........-....-......64 5 3 Teaching with Do and Understand . 3.1 Basic techniques ... * Pregaration for the class - - - * Setting the context for the Stories 20.22... 0.2. 6 * Introducing vocabulary .- +++ e+ s0e0s sees eeeeeeeteeeeee seen ed 6 * Teaching the stories ...-- +--+ seer ee ee tee eee eee eee eed 8 10 a ses euaeaeausueseecauesuueeereesuaaarmures tenet 12 * Scrambled sentences .. ; 13 * Putting the story back in ofdet .... 20... ee eee Serene 13, 3.2 Anchoring techniques - + Reconstructing by first letters Olnitr#4/) Gooacopauodeb * What's wrong? ......- . * Memory * Show me the picture . * Show me the action ... * Using the worksheets in Do and Understand .............0.00005 15 3.3 Further application of DO and Understand ... * From reproduction to production . * Encouraging creative production . 4 Authors’ acknowledgements ....- +++ eset e cere eee nent een e eee eee 17 5 Suggested reading ...... 0.00.22 cee ee eee eee eee eee eens ene e eee 17 Story textS ooo e cece cece et eect tenets tees eee t eee teeta eee 18 PHoLOcOpravie WOTRSNERIS oo. eee ene ee LO