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Learning Objectives: Avatar: The Legend of Aang
Level 2 – Getting Along With Others
Integrated Skills Development
Listening
SOKKA: It’s not getting away from me this time. Watch and
learn, Katara. This is how you catch a fish.
KATARA: Sokka... Look!
Students will:
SOKKA: Shhh... Katara, you’re gonna scare it away. Mmm, I can
Learn about a scene and already smell it cookin’.
the differences of the
brother and sister in KATARA: But Sokka, I caught one! Hey!
Avatar: The Legend of
SOKKA: Why is it that every time you play with magic water, I
Aang.
get soaked?!
Understand the basic
plot of the cartoon. KATARA: It’s not magic, it’s waterbending and it’s...
Understand how to use
SOKKA: Yeah, yeah, an “ancient (古代的) art unique to our
different adjectives
culture (文化)”, blah, blah, blah. Look, I’m just saying
related to the characters.
that if I had weird powers, I’d keep my “weirdness” to
myself.
For more information
about the cartoon visit: KATARA: You’re calling me weird? I’m not the one who makes
muscles at myself every time I see my reflection (倒
http://www.nick.com/shows/
影) in the water!
avatar/index.jhtml
Listening Questions
Explanation: This is a 1. What are Sokka and Katara doing together?
factual question. Refer to: They are fishing.
“Watch and learn, Katara. They are cooking.
This is how you catch a They are playing tennis.
fish.” They are fighting.
Explanation: This is an 2. Sokka and Katara really dislike each other.
inference question. Refer to True
passage: They are having False
an argument but they are
obviously very close.
Keywords: Getting Along with Others; Popular Culture Level 2
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Explanation: This is a 3. What does Katara do to catch the fish?
reference question. Refer fire-throwing
to: “KATARA windsurfing
It’s not magic, it’s waterbending
waterbending sky-diving
and it’s...”
Explanation: This is a 4. What happens when Katara does waterbending?
reference question. Refer Complete the sentence by quoting from the passage.
to: “Why is it that every “Why is it that every time you play with magic water, I get
time you play soaked?!”
with magic water, I get
soaked?!”
Vocabulary Vocabulary Exercise
Integrative use of listening, spelling and written structures
get•ting a•way phrasal 1. Aang is very powerful / weird.
verb [from to get away]
2. This fish is not getting away this time.
to escape from someone
who is chasing you or trying 3. She uses magic water to catch a fish.
to catch you
4. You always look at your muscles.
Ex. It’s not getting away from
me this time. 5. I am soaked because of you.
ma•gic adjective 6. You are so weird / powerful.
a magic word or object has 7. Together they must save the world.
special powers that make
the person using it able to 8. I was woken up by the noise.
do impossible things
Ex. Why is it that every time
you play with magic water, I Reading Comprehension
get soaked?!
Avatar: The Legend of Aang is a cartoon. The cartoon is about a boy
mus•cles noun called Aang who is very powerful.
[plural]
one of the pieces of flesh Aang is sleeping in ice (冰). He is woken up by Sokka and Katara
inside your body that you who are fishing in the sea. They are brother and sister. Sokka thinks
use in order to move, and Katara is weird because she is also very powerful. But Katara
that connect your bones thinks Sokka is weird because he looks at his muscles in the water.
together
Ex. But Katara thinks Sokka is Aang then learns that he is the Avatar (神之化身). Aang and his
weird because he looks at his
friends must work together to save the world.
muscles in the water.
Keywords: Getting Along with Others; Popular Culture Level 2
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pow•er•ful adjective
a powerful person,
organisation, group etc is
able to control and
influence events and other
people's actions
Ex. The cartoon is about a boy
called Aang who is very
powerful.
save the world phrase
to make the world safe
from danger
Ex. Aang and his friends must
work together to save the
world.
soaked adjective
very wet or wearing very
wet clothes
Ex. Why is it that every time
you play with magic water, I
get soaked?!
weird adjective
very strange and unusual,
and difficult to understand
or explain
Ex. Sokka thinks Katara is
weird because she is also very
powerful.
wok•en verb
[from to wake]
to stop sleeping, or to make
someone stop sleeping
Ex. He is woken up by Sokka
and Katara who are fishing in
the sea.
Keywords: Getting Along with Others; Popular Culture Level 2
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Reading Comprehension Questions
Explanation: This is an 1. What is Avatar: The Legend of Aang about?
factual question. Refer to two brothers who always fight
paragraph 1: “The cartoon a girl and her brother who like fishing
is about a boy called Aang a very powerful boy called Aang
who is very powerful.” a weird brother and sister
Explanation: This is a 2. What is Aang doing when he is woken by Sokka and
reference question. Refer Katara?
to paragraph 2: “Aang is trying to save the world
sleeping in ice. He is woken sleeping in ice
up by Sokka and Katara fishing in the sea
who are fishing in the sea.” looking at his muscles in the water
Explanation: This is a 3. How do Sokka and Katara know each other?
reference question. Refer They are boyfriend and girlfriend.
to paragraph 2: “He is They are brother and sister.
woken up by Sokka and They are cousins.
Katara who are fishing in They are best friends.
the sea. They are brother
and sister.”
Explanation: This is an 4. <This is a tricky question> Which word is most similar to
inference question. Refer to the word “avatar”?
paragraph 3: “Aang then a wizard
learns that he is the a god
Avatar.” The Chinese a witch
meaning is there. a monster
Explanation: This is a 5. Which two adjectives best describe two of the
vocabulary question. Refer characters? Answer the question by quoting from the
to paragraph 1 & 2: “The passage.
cartoon is about a boy “weird”
called Aang who is very “powerful”
powerful.” “Sokka thinks
Katara is weird because she
is also very powerful.”
Keywords: Getting Along with Others; Popular Culture Level 2
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Speaking
Integrative use of listening and speaking
1. The cartoon is about a boy called Aang who is very powerful.
2. He is woken up by Sokka and Katara.
3. Aang and his friends must save the world.
Guided Writing – About Avatar
Avatar together cartoon powerful
cartoon brother sister save the world
1. Avatar is a cartoon about a special boy named Aang.
2. Together Aang, Sokka and Katara must save the world.
3. He is very powerful.
4. He meets Sokka and Katara.
5. They are brother and sister.
Special thanks to Nickelodeon
Keywords: Getting Along with Others; Popular Culture Level 2
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