They will be made aware of the task at the time they receive the book. The listener is encouraged to ask questions and indicate comprehension or lack thereof. During the retelling, both speaker and listener will be able to reference the graded reader, and use the pictures on each page to assist in conveying meaning. The listener will feel that she has a good grasp of the story's main events. Linguistic Objectives Students will improve the fluency of their speech over the course of the three retellings.
Fluency is defined as the number of spoken words per minute.
Furthermore, by using previously unfamiliar vocabulary that was encountered in the graded reader, students will increase the strength of the memory of those vocabulary items. Explain that students will be expected to read one of the graded readers and retell the story in next week's class. Explain that the retelling should be in the students' own words and that they are not to read the text aloud to their audience. Tell the students that to get the feeling of this, they're going to tell another student the basic plot of a movie or TV show they've recently seen. Have students form pairs, and explain to their friend, briefly, in Japanese the plot of the movie or TV show.