本月，二年级双语科学的外教Robert带领学生们开展了一节故事创作和表演的活动课。孩子们需要抽取卡片，用卡片上指定的故事开头和人物编写一个故事，然后以话剧的形式表演出来。本节课旨在锻炼孩子们的口语表达能力，同时也培养他们的想象力和创造力。

We led a class where the students wrote their own stories. The students made stories using the ‘beginning’ and ‘character’ cards that we made. Once they had made a story with these, they performed their stories to the class with one person being a narrator. This allowed students to practice their English and use their creativity and imagination to make a story of their own.

首先，在课堂导入环节，我们要求学生们充分回忆和思考他们所熟知的英文童话故事情节，然后列出所有这些故事的名称，以此为本节课的内容打下了基础。在整个思考和罗列的过程中，可以看出孩子们的阅读量非常可观，知识面也很广。

At the start of the lesson, we asked students to recall the names of the English language stories that they had read. This helped students to think about the stories they had read and provided a context for the lesson.

然后，我们引入了和这堂课主题相关的一些新词汇，比如，“故事情节”、“故事开端”、“故事结局”、“角色”等。这些词汇帮助孩子们认识到，创作一个故事需要哪些必要的元素。我们以一则简短的故事为例，告诉孩子们，在这个故事里，哪部分属于故事开端、哪部分是结尾、故事的情节以及人物分别是什么，以此让孩子们对于这些必备元素有一个更清晰的概念，也帮助他们更好地完成接下来的故事创作。

We taught the students some new vocabulary, such as the ‘plot’, ‘beginning’, ‘happens’, ‘ending’ and ‘characters’. This gave students the necessary vocabulary to identify these important elements of the story. After explaining these characters and beginning cards to students, we then gave them an example made using the cards. We asked the students to tell us the characters, beginning, ending and plot of the story. This helped the students identify these main features of a story and then help them make their own.

接下来就到了本节课的重点——小组故事创作环节了。每个小组会随机分到一些卡片，其中一张卡片上写有两句话，作为指定的故事开头，剩下的卡片上则是给定的故事角色。小组成员们拿到了卡片后，先选定各自想扮演的角色，然后开始根据给定的故事开头，发散思维，创作故事。孩子们可以在编故事的过程中，试着表演自己的角色。表演不仅适于孩子们好动的天性、激发他们的灵感，也能具象化他们正在创作的故事。

The students got together in teams and made their own stories. The cards had the advantage of being a platform to help the students make a story. Some students chose to act out the actions of their characters with other characters while making the story. This helped them visualize the story, while helping kinaesthetic and kinetic learners in the class.

故事创作完成后，我们要求孩子们写下各个角色的台词，之后就要开始表演啦。孩子们通过讲述故事以及背诵对白的方式来练习英语口语。他们对戏剧表演非常有热情，争先恐后地想要走上“舞台”。每个小组编写的故事非常生动有趣，展现了非凡的想象力与创造力，令人惊叹。同时，每个孩子的表演都活力四射，极具感染力。

They then wrote down the story and performed it to the class. This allowed the students to practice their English both narrating the story and by reciting the characters’ dialogue. The students enjoyed the active drama and role-playing element and were strongly engaged by the activity.There were many brilliant performances. This drama element helped students practice their English while moving around and performing their characters’ actions.

这节故事创作课不仅锻炼了学生们的英语口语，也让孩子们对于故事必备的元素有了基本的概念。在这堂课上，孩子们活泼而专注，用于自我表达，充分解放自己的艺术创作天性。未来，外教Robert也将带给他们更多精彩而创新的实践课，让他们收获知识、创意与成长。

This activity not only allowed students to practice their English, but also identify and understand the various elements of a story.

（供稿：小学高端英语项目组）