When Toby has finished saying the sentences in a jumbled order the teacher draws a grid on the board which is a graphic representation of the page in the book. She draws nine squares and the children dictate which numbers to write into the squares. In this way they can check whether they have made any mistakes or not. The advantages of using video to teach Action Stories are obvious. The children's attention is focused on the video because it is fun watching and imitating a tiger who can speak.
Toby never gets tired.
No matter how often you show his actions they always remain the same. There is the additional advantage of listening to the voice of a native speaker. The teacher monitors what is going on and she has the children repeat a step that is not working properly. Her role has changed. She need not fulfill lots of roles at the same time because part of her workload has been taken over by the video.