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=**Develop writting skills** =




 *  "Three little friends" **




 * KEY COMPETENCES:**

- **Competence in linguistic communication**: the children work this key competence because they are in a subject that belongs to a linguistic area and they are learning kinds of texts, in this unit, it is a narrative fiction tale.

- **Competence in knowledge and interaction with the physical world**: Relaying with the materials the students can see in the tale. They have to identify them and learn their characteristics.

- **Competence in social skills and citizenship:**the pupils work this key competence in the tale when they represent it, and see that the giraffe let his friends to live with him when the wolf blows his friend’s houses down. The students also work this competence in all the activities they interact with each other

- **Artistic competence:**The children work artistic competence when they create their own houses with toothpicks and also when they colour the pictures.

- **Autonomy and personal initiative:**The students work autonomy when they create their own book with the cards of the activity book. And also when they clean up the class every day after the lesson.

- **Emotional competence:**When they interpret different roles of the tale and assume the characteristics and have to interact with the rest of the students.

__Three little pigs__

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__Parts__ __of a__ __story:__

a) **place** - geographical location. Where is the action of the story taking place? b) **time** - When is the story taking place? (historical period, time of day, year, etc) c) **weather conditions** - Is it rainy, sunny, stormy, etc? d) **social conditions** - What is the daily life of the characters like? Does the story contain local colour (writing that focuses on the speech, dress, mannerisms, customs, etc. of a particular place)? e) **mood or atmosphere** - What feeling is created at the beginning of the story? Is it bright and cheerful or dark and frightening?
 * Setting :** the time and location in wich a story takes place is called setting:


 * Plot : **is how the author arranges events to develop his basic idea. It is the sequence of events in a story or play. The plot is a planned, logical series of events having a beginning, middle, and end. The short story usually has one plot so it can be read in one sitting. There are five essential parts of plot:

a) **Introduction** - The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting is revealed.

b) **Rising Action** - This is where the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed (events between the introduction and climax).

c) **Climax** - This is the highest point of interest and the turning point of the story. The reader wonders what will happen next; will the conflict be resolved or not?

d) **Falling action** - The events and complications begin to resolve themselves. The reader knows what has happened next and if the conflict was resolved or not (events between climax and denouement).

e) **Denouement** - This is the final outcome or untangling of events in the story.

**Conflict :** is essential to plot. Without conflict there is no plot. It is the opposition of forces which ties one incident to another and makes the plot move. Conflict is not merely limited to open arguments, rather it is any form of opposition that faces the main character. Within a short story there may be only one central struggle, or there may be one dominant struggle with many minor ones.

__Diferences between theme and topic __ Topic is general and a theme is more specific. A topic could be brooms and a theme could be "Symbolic uses of brooms" A theme is a message about the topic. For example, the topic is "brooms", a theme would be "brooms are not as cool as mops." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">