Many of us enjoyed Jim Tripp’s Halloween script. Here is one he has for after Thanksgiving:
Nappy Nap
pounds (lbs)
after eating
takes a nap
Jeremy eats 999.9 pounds of mashed potatoes. After eating them, Jeremy takes a nap. He takes a nap on top of the table.
After taking a nap, Jeremy wants more food. Jeremy eats 2000 pounds of corn. After eating it, he takes a nap for 3 hours. He takes a nap in the fridge.
After taking the nap, Jeremy wants pie. He eats 5 pounds of pumpkin pie. But the pie also has boogers in it. So Jeremy eats 1 pound of boogers while eating the pumpkin pie. After eating the booger-pumpkin pie, Jeremy takes a nap in the bathroom, with his head on the toilet.
Jim notes:
This story is perfect for the day after Thanksgiving break, in my opinion. It’s easy to PQA with takes a nap (ex. How many naps did you take over the break?), so students can hear lots of reps of this useful structure before starting the story.
Before writing the structures up on the board, I like to do a quick vocabulary activity. I write several of the common ‘modern Thanksgiving’ foods on the board (usually they will not have seen many of these yet) in both languages, like a matching activity. Then I ask students to come up and try their hand and matching them correctly. After this 5 minute activity, I leave these words on the board so that they can call them out in the target language during the story.