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Grandparents say the darnedest things

This activity is linked to the National Profiles, Level 3, English.

Materials:

Interviewee
Photographs of subject
Cardboard for display
Colouring-in materials

Bunyips are an important part of an oral history tradition.

Discuss oral history, stories passed parent to child, grandparent to grandchild. Have the students interview their grandparent (if not a parent, relative or friend). Ask the interviewee for a story their parent or grandparent told them.

Write a report of this story, illustrating it with photos of the storyteller. Make a display in the classroom or library.

National Profiles, Level3, English

Speaking and listening

A student

  • Communicates ideas for specific purposes with people in the classroom and the school
  • Recognises that spoken language is used differently for particular times, places, audiences and purposes
  • Has a knowledge of and uses common grammatical structures
  • Talks about ways of communicating

Writing

A student

  • Combines several ideas in a logical sequence when writing
  • Selects an appropriate text type for a particular writing purpose and can explain why they have chosen it
  • Uses the most basic features of writing and also experiments with some different features
  • Experiments with ways to plan, review and proofread writing
  • Uses a range of ways to spell
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