This post is for people doing UCI:
Stop getting freaked out by thinking how hard it is to create stories using comprehensible input. Just do this:
As you make the tableau (QL2 – 4), DRAW INFORMATION FROM WHAT YOU ESTABLISHED WHEN BUILDING THE TABLEAU to make the story. Smack dab in the middle of those three questioning levels (who, where and with whom) lie golden nuggets as described in a previous post here about the watermelon floating in the ocean with a small whale.
Stories occur to you intuitively and spontaneously based on who it is, where they are and whom they’re with. It’s so simple! It may occur to you that the watermelon starts to drown. The whale saves him by eating him. Go with that.
If nothing pops into your head based on the information created in the tableau, then just leave the image in the form of a tableau. If something does occur to you then bring in some dialogue and some action and there you go!
The key thing to remember when doing ANY comprehensible input instruction is to keep the focus of the kids on the message being conveyed. They simple don’t care about the form of the language nor should they. They’re just kids and they want to know what happens.
