Elaborations

• identifying and describing settings, characters, events and key ideas in imaginative texts by asking and responding to questions such as ở đâu? khi nào? ai? làm gì? như thế nào? and tại sao?, or by producing a profile of a character or a timeline of events
• reading and viewing imaginative texts, such as animations, films and photo series, and performing scenes that illustrate aspects of the characters’ attitudes, personality or reactions, the story’s ending or the writer’s messages
• illustrating an extract from a text by selecting images, such as a picture, colour, symbol or emoticon, to reflect the content, mood or key message of the text, and explaining the reasons for selections
• participating in performing for the class an imagined dialogue between characters from a story
• listening to Vietnamese versions of English songs, for example, Chúc Mừng Sinh Nhật(‘Happy Birthday’), Tiếng Chuông Giáng Sinh (‘Jingle Bells’), and comparing aspects of each version such as language use and cultural representations