Lizzie and the Freezo machine (Part 1)

Module

Storytime

Unit

Story

Key Stage Targets

To develop an ever-improving capability to use English

-  to converse about feelings, interests, ideas, experiences and plans (I.D. b)

-  to recognize and solve simple problems in given situations, and describe the solutions (K.D. d)

-  to respond to characters and events in imaginative and other narrative texts through oral, written and performative means such as predictions and making evaluative comments (E.D.b)

Programme Outline

Lizzie is a happy girl with not a worry in the world until her parents have mysteriously disappeared. Her parents are scientists who can invent new things and ideas. Why would they suddenly leave her? Then, her father’s friend, Uncle Claude comes to live in Lizzie’s house with some children and “Ice People”, some strange-looking security guards in white overalls and goggles. But why is Uncle Claude sitting in a wheelchair? What will happen if the children try to run away? And there is the Ice King with a “Freezo” machine to freeze or “change” people’s hearts and brains in the basement of her house! Who is the Ice King? There are so many things Lizzie does not understand. Things have really got out of control! Can her Fairy Godmother help her?

Communicative Functions

1.  Greet and respond to greetings

2.  Express ideas and plans

3.  Ask for and give explanations

4.  Make predictions and refer to unplanned future actions

Pre-viewing Activities

1.  Introduce the title of the programme and the main characters of the story, Lizzie, Rowan, Uncle Claude, the Ice King, Ice People, Lizzie’s Fairy Godmother and the Wizard. It would be helpful to write the names of the main characters on the board for the pupils to see.

2.  Ask the class to guess what the “Freezo” machine can do.

3.  Briefly introduce the story.

4.  Motivate the pupils by asking them how Lizzie would feel when she finds that her father and mother have suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. Brainstorm answers to the question.

5.  Go through the questions in the While-viewing Activity with the class.

While-viewing Activity

Pupils watch the programme and follow the questions in COPYMASTER 1. Ask them to guess the answers to the questions.

Post-viewing Activities

1.  Go to COPYMASTER 1 and go through the questions with the class.

2.  Go to COPYMASTER 2. Go through the questions with the class and discuss with them what will happen to Lizzie.

COPYMASTER 1

While-viewing Activity

Questions

Follow the questions while you are watching the programme and guess the answers.

Scene: Lizzie looking into the room in the basement
1.  What is that box?
2.  What is it doing to that man?
3.  Who is that man sitting at the panel?
Scene: Lizzie in the garden
4.  Who is Ice King? Is it Uncle Claude?
COPYMASTER 2

Post-viewing Activity

Answer the following questions:

1.  What happens to the Ice People when they hear music?
2.  What is going to happen to Lizzie?
(a)  Will the Ice People discover she knows about the Freezo machine?
(b) Will Lizzie be punished?