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Student Sample: Stage B3 Standard Video 1  

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Now girls, today we’ve got some sentences from Peter and the Wolf.  You’ve read the story before, but this is a different story:  the same story, but with different writing.  Now what I want you to do is put the sentences back in order, because I’ve mixed them all up, and make a paragraph.

Mm-hm.

And then when you’ve finished that, on the next page over here is the next part of the story.

Oh, okay.

So I’ll get you to read that, then I’m going to ask you some questions about that.  You’ve put the sentences back in order:  can you read the paragraph you’ve put together?

One morning Peter come up of him, of his garden gate to see what was going on.  A little bird was sitting up on a tree.  When the bird saw his friend Peter, his friend, he chirped, chirped to tell him that he was there.  Suddenly one of Grandfather’s duck came out through the garden gate and went to the pond.  When the bird saw the duck he flew down from the tree to have a look at the duck.  The little du-, and the bird, little bird ask, “Why do you wan-, waddle, waddle like that?  Can’t you fly?”  The duck answered, “No, I can’t fly but I can swim.”  Then he dived into the pond.

Well done.  So how did you know how to put these sentences together?  What did you look for?

Um, I looked for clues, like, and firstly I found the ‘One morning’, which is the timing words, so I knew that was ‘one morning’, so and then they, there was they, they, fr-, they introduced the character first and then they said the time as well ‘one morning’.

Well done, well done.  Can you tell me about the next paragraph in the story?  What was that about?

It was, Peter ah, finding um, and how he was working out who was ah, creeping in the long grass, then he found out, like that it was a cat.  Um, he found the, the, ah, that he was, and also his Grandfather was angry at Peter because he, he told um, Peter that, “Do not be on the garden because it was really dangerous for him.”  But then he didn’t accept that:  he never, he always was going.  He wasn’t listening to him.  And then suddenly the wolf came.

Well done, you understood that paragraph really well, really well.  So what would be a good title for that paragraph?

Um, “The Ending.”  

Is it the end of the story?

It’s the middle and the end.

So what would be a good title?  If you moved away from ‘middle’ and ‘ending’ what would be a good title, a good describing word?

Ah, “Peter and the Little Bird.”

Okay, that’s what’s happening in that part of the story.  Very good.  Why do you think Peter helped the bird?

Because he didn’t want the little bird and the cat to get eaten by the wolf because he thought, he felt sorry for the duck:  he couldn’t help the duck so he didn’t want the, his other friends to get…

So how would you describe Peter?

He is strong, brave, ah, helpful, a caring person, and…

So why do you think Peter went out the garden gate and he said to his grandfather that he’s not scared of wolves?

Because he, um, he thought that, ah, because he thought ah, he thought that the wolf one day will come and eat the, his friends.  And then he’s, he’s got a good, he thought that he’s strong and then he went and saved his friends.

Wonderful, good understanding.  What would you do?

[laughs] I would do whatever my grandfather say.

I probably would too.  [laughs]  What would have happened to the bird if Peter hadn’t said, “Look out”?  What do you think might have happened?

The bird might, got eaten.

Okay.  Now you’ve read the story of Hansel and Gretel…

Yeah.

…as well as Peter and the Wolf:  which character, Hansel or Peter, is the bravest do you think?

Mm, Hansel.

Why?

Because he saved the, he saved his sister, because if he couldn’t save the sister his sister might be, might turn in a gingerbread.  So is sis-…[overtalking] 

Excellent, okay.  Good, I like your ideas and your opinions.  Now you’ve got a special word in here, haven’t you?  Okay, so in this sentence here you said this word here, “He chirped.”  Can you look up the dictionary to find out what that means again?  Okay so, oh, you found it pretty quickly.  Good dictionary skills.  

It says:  “To make a sound like a young bird.”

Okay, wonderful.