Across CulturesA Folk Tale

Instructor: Tahani Al-Hammami

What we will Learn for Today?

• Reading about a Middle Eastern Folk Tale

• Word Builder

• Sentence Builder: to + infinitive

• Talking about Tales & Legends

• Writing a Tale: Using Linking Words

• Anansi the Spider

Reading about a Middle Eastern Folk Tale

Word Builder • Talk about

• Pull on

• Look at

• Shine down on

• Go out

• Go in

• Invite to

• Come over

• Discuss

• Wear

• Watch/stare

• Emit light

• Fade away

• Enter

• Ask politely

• Attend

Sentence Builder

V. + to + infinitive (e.g. learn, plan, wait)

I learnt to swim when I was six.

V. (with O.) + to + infinitive (e.g. order, teach)

He ordered the soldier to do it.

V. (with or without O.) + to + infinitive

(e.g. would like, ask, help, prefer)

I’d like to go to the mall.I’d like you to go to the mall with me.

V. + to + infinitive

• Learn• Plan• Wait• Agree• Try• Decide• Promise• Begin• Refuse• Start• Offer

V. (with O.) + to + infinitive

• Order• Teach• Beg• Invite• Tell

V. (with or without O.) + to + infinitive

• Would like• Ask• Help• Prefer• Want

Talking about Tales & Legends

Linking Words• One day

• After that

• Later

• Before

• After

• When

• During

• Immediately

• Luckily

• Finally

• In the end

Anansi the SpiderWest African Oral Literature

Thank You!