Text-As-Process Viewpoint: Activities to Encourage Learners to Create Literature From the Text

This is a fable from Headways Pre-intermediate (on page 70). I prepared activities with a text-as-process viewpoint to encourage learners to create literature from this text:

1. We can ask them to change some aspects of this story, rewrite, and act out. For example;

• What would happen if the bear was not a bear but a different animal? Why?

• What other advice the bear can give to the men?

• What do you think would happen if both of the men tried to save each other?

• What do you think the man answered back to his friend? What would you say if you were him?

• What would be different if this play was written by someone else in another country?

• If you were the author of this fable, what the bear would do/say?

• Would you change anything in this fable? Would you add or remove any character? Why?

• If you were the person who had to lie down on the ground, how would you react to your backstabber friend and a bear who can talk?

• Which background music/song would be suitable in this fable?

• Can you give a new title to this play?

2. Think that the other man will try to gaslight his friend who almost died on the ground. What will he say and defend himself? Write a dialogue between them. (The term “Gaslight” can be explained by the teacher if students do not know about it.)