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English Comprehensible Input Short Story & ELL Lesson Activities The Bad Chef
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Teach beginning English with this engaging English comprehensible input short story and ELL lesson. This ready-to-use resource includes an animated video, printable story, reading comprehension activities, story retells, and vocabulary practice designed to help beginning English learners acquire language through meaningful repetition.

The chef is terrible—he puts far too much salt on everything! His customers are unhappy, and even he knows something has to change. Can one simple solution save his restaurant? Throughout the story, students receive repeated exposure to four high-frequency target structures.

The targeted structures are:

  • a bad chef
  • he puts
  • too much salt
  • you are

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

This English comprehensible input lesson includes:

  • Animated video with on-screen text
  • Animated video without text for story retells
  • Printable PDF story
  • Reading comprehension worksheet
  • "Who Said It?" activity
  • Story retell worksheet
  • Answer key

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