The Crossing

• Fill in the vocabulary builder, paying particular attention to the prepositions you could use when talking/writing about this picture. Use the vocabulary to construct sentences.
• What are the trolls doing?
• Why are they sitting underneath the bridge?
• What do you think the trolls are saying to each other? Write their conversation as a play script, and then as a narrative scene including dialogue.
• What do you think the goats are saying to each other?
• How are they feeling?
• What are they doing?
• Are they going to cross the bridge? Use modal verbs and adverbs to discuss the possibilities, and to show what is the most likely thing to happen. [Use this sheet – Making predictions – modal verbs and adverbs – to help you.]

• Read the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff [here’s a free version online: Three Billy Goats Gruff].
• Watch the animated version here: Youtube – The 3 Billy Goats Gruff Animation.
• Discuss/teach:
  • Similarities to Goldilocks and the Three Bears
  • Alliteration (‘terrifically terrifying, terrible troll called Trevor’)
  • Noun phrases
  • Prepositions
  • Speech/dialogue
  • Verbs (‘roared’, ‘scampered’, ‘boomed’)
  • Adverbs (‘gingerly’, ‘boldly’)
  • Story structure (draw a story map or box it up)
  • Persuasion (how would you persuade the troll not to eat you?)

Credit: Petur Antonsson
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