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    PENGUIN ACTIVE READING

    Teacher Support Programme Teacher’s notes   LEVEL 1

    The Rainbow Serpent


    James Vance Marshall does not belong to any living thing on it but to all its
    inhabitants.
    Love: Krubi’s love for Bami was so strong that she could
    not live without him.
    Spirituality: The Rainbow Serpent is a familiar story to
    the native people of Australia. They have a deep spiritual
    awareness.

    Discussion activities
    Before reading
    1 Write: Ask students to write all the animals they
    know in English. Write the animals on the board.
    In small groups, the students play ‘Twenty Questions’.
    Summary Each student chooses an animal and the other
    Story 1: The Rainbow Serpent wakes up in an empty students ask twenty ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘sometimes’ questions
    to guess the animal. Elicit possible questions first:
    world. She doesn’t like this, so she produces rain and trees Is it big? Does it have four legs? Does it eat meat? Does it
    and flowers grow. Then she makes many animals and a swim?
    man and a woman appear.
    Stories 1–2
    Story 2: One day, a Mother Kangaroo and her son, While reading (p. 2, after ‘Be good to the animals
    Joey, help an old wombat find food and water. The next here.’)
    morning, Mother Kangaroo finds a bag that the Great 2 Discuss: Have students discuss the following
    Creator had given her because she had been kind to questions in small groups: Do you think there are
    another animal. Now, all baby kangaroos live in a bag on many problems on the Earth? What are the problems?
    Are people making the world a bad place? Can people
    their mother’s body.
    make the Earth a good place?
    Story 3: A lyrebird teaches a frog to sing. The frog begins
    After reading
    to sing beautifully and he sings to the moon for a long 3 Group work and write: Write Where did the fish
    time. Eventually, his voice disappears and he can only and the frogs go? on the board and elicit the answer
    croak, as frogs do today. (Into the water). In small groups, students now write
    four questions about Stories 1–2. Check their work as
    Story 4: One day, the animals are arguing about who is
    they do this. Each group asks the other groups their
    the most special animal. They all say they have special questions.
    things. The clever platypus says he does not want to be in
    any of the animals’ families because the Great Creator told Stories 3–4
    him that all animals are special. After reading
    4 Pair work: Student A chooses one of the pictures
    Story 5: One day, an old cockatoo dies. The animals in Story 3 and describes the scene to Student B.
    cannot understand it and some try to explain it. The Student B tries to draw the picture from Student A’s
    caterpillars understand, as they turn into butterflies. The description. Then they reverse roles and Student B
    chooses a picture from Story 4.
    animals realise the dead cockatoo is new again and in a
    special place. Stories 5–6
    Story 6: A beautiful girl called Krubi is in love with a man After reading
    5 Write: Krubi’s story is very sad. In pairs, the students
    called Bami who goes off to fight. He doesn’t come back discuss a film they have seen that is very sad. Then
    and Krubi dies. A red flower now grows in the mountains they write a short description of the films and read
    representing Krubi and her love. them to the class. Have the class guess the films.

    Background and themes Vocabulary activities


    For the Word list and vocabulary activities, go to
    The environment: The man and woman are told to www.penguinreaders.com.
    look after the Earth by the Rainbow Serpent. The Earth

    c Pearson Education Limited 2008 The Rainbow Serpent - Teacher’s notes  of 1

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