What You Will Learn

  • Unlock your creativity and spark your imagination by rewriting fictional stories about bands, concerts, and musical instruments!

  • Use an existing fictional story as a springboard to inspire new stories about your favorite musicians and the fun they have while "on the road."

  • Rules and conjugation patterns of verb tenses can be fun! Get creative and rewrite stories in simple and past progressive tenses.

  • Use new vocabulary and expressions about wild animals to write exciting, well structured, 5-paragraph stories.

  • Pro Tip: Next, put your biliteracy skills to the test by taking the Spanish version of this course called, "Escribiendo Historias: El Batería Perezoso." You'll walk away knowing all of the vocabulary, grammar points, and writing tips in two languages!

Course Curriculum

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  • 1

    Lesson 1

    • Vocabulary: Musical Instruments

    • Vocabulary: The Lazy Drummer

    • Let's Talk

    • Quiz #1
  • 2

    Lesson 2

    • Lazy Drummer - Original Version

    • Vocabulary Review & Practice

    • Let's Read!

    • Identifying New Vocabulary

    • Quiz #2
  • 3

    Lesson 3

    • Lazy Drummer - 2.0

    • Let's Write a Story!

    • The Lazy Drummer 2.0

    • Listen & Respond

    • Quiz #3
  • 4

    Lesson 4

    • Simple Past Tense

    • Past Continuous Tense

    • Let's Practice #1

    • Let's Practice #2

    • Quiz #4
  • 5

    Lesson 5

    • The Lazy Drummer - 3.0

    • Let's Review

    • Let's Change the Story: Steps 1 & 2

    • Let's Change the Story: Steps 3 & 4

    • The Lazy Drummer 3.0

    • Quiz #5

Course Instructor

Ivon Senquiz

Ivon is a TEFL certified teacher from the United States and grew up in a bilingual Puerto Rican home. Even as a child, Ivon understood the value of being bilingual and she studied Spanish throughout high school in order to achieve an academic proficiency in both English and Spanish. Ivon's love for the diversity of Hispanic cultures led her to visit Costa Rica years ago, where she then fell in love with the country and people, and now lives there.

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