ENG 099: Conversational American English | Princess Story Activity 1

Author’s Note: This is the first ENG 099 Conversational American English Princess
Story Activity. This is the second ENG 099 activity series; the 6 activities of the first, Intro, series are below:
for context. It is designed to be used Pedagogically by a Tutor or Teacher with a beginning English Language Learner, or ELL.
Mr. Danoff
2 January 2012
Winnetka
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Step 0 What’s up?

Step 1 What was the most fun thing you did last week?
Step 2 Do you have any English questions? From a book you read? From homework at school? From life?
Step 3 What is a dictionary? Why would you use Google dictionary?
Step 4 What is a princess? Please write 3 sentences.
Step 5 Now you are going to write your own princess story. What is your princess’s name? Please write 1 sentence.

Step 6 Where does your princess live? Please write 1 sentence.
Step 7 Does your princess have any brothers or sisters? Please write 1 sentence.
Step 8 When does your princess live? (i.e. What year? 1457? 2000? 3000?) Please write 1 sentence.
Step 9 Now write the beginning of your princess story. Include your princess’s name, home, family, and time. Maybe you can start with “Once upon a time there was a princess named __________.”
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- “ESL 101 Lesson 1 Image 5.jpg” Copyright (C) 2011 Charles Jeffrey Danoff. Rights abandoned with the CC0 1.0.
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- Text Copyright (C) 2012 Charles Jeffrey Danoff. Rights abandoned with the CC0 1.0.