4.2 To design media texts

Memorandum

ACTIVITY 1:

This again is a ‘real’ exercise and the flyers can be copied and distributed in the area.

ACTIVITY 2:

If there are recurring issues in the community, you could perhaps work these in here and so help the learners think about them and come up with solutions or new approaches e.g. the perlemoen poaching along the Cape coast.

• Remember to emphasise that these situations should be thought through to show some depth in the dialogue.
• Also emphasise that enunciation and projection are important for the role-play to be successful.

ACTIVITY 3:

Encourage the learners to use their imaginations and to come up with really well thought out stories.

ACTIVITY 4:

When reading the story for the first time, explain any difficult words.

It is very important that you read the story at a comfortable pace, and with variation in tone.

Read the story through once and then read through the questions giving the mark allocation.

Now read the story a second time and then ask the questions one by one as the learners answer them in the spaces provided.

This can be included in the Oral / Spoken word section of the portfolio.

How Leopard got his Spots, Zebra his Stripes and Why Hyena remained Ugly

One day Hyena, for no apparent reason beyond ingrained ill-nature, put Tortoise up into the fork of a tree, and he could not get down because it was so high! Leopard passed by and saw him: “What are you doing in a tree, Tortoise? I did not know that tortoises climb trees.”

“It was Hyena who put me here, and now I can’t get down, no matter how hard I try.”

Leopard remarked, “Hyena is a bad lot, but I will help you”, and he took Tortoise out of the tree.

Out of gratitude for his rescue, Tortoise offered to make Leopard beautiful. He did so by painting him with spots, saying as he worked, “Where your neighbour is all right, you will also be all right”. When Leopard loped off, he met Zebra, who admired him so much that he wanted to know who had made him beautiful, and then he, too, went to Tortoise for help. In this way he was given his stripes. So Leopard and Zebra both looked beautiful in their new colours!

When people hoeing in their gardens saw them, they exclaimed,” Oh, the big beauties! Let’s catch them, domesticate them and keep them!” When Leopard and Zebra heard this, they fled into the bush, where they have remained ever since. This accounts for how they became wild animals.

Zebra then met Hyena. Hyena was impressed by how beautiful Zebra looked and asked him, “Who beautified you?” and Zebra replied, “It was Tortoise”. So then Hyena said, “I wish he would beautify me too,” and went away to Tortoise to ask him, “ Please make me beautiful too!”

“Come,” said Tortoise, but he remembered what Hyena had done to him and so this time he said, “Where your neighbour is a bad lot, you will also be a bad lot!” and then said, “You must go to the place where people are hoeing”. So Hyena eagerly approached the people, but at the sight of Hyena, they said, “What an ugly thing! Oh, what an ugly thing! ”And Hyena turned tail and fled into the bushes and shouted, “I want to find Tortoise to punish him for doing this to me!” But Hyena found no sign of Tortoise, who had quickly fled down a hole. And to this day, people in villages still laugh at Hyena.

The moral of the story is: good deeds are rewarded, while one evil follows upon another.

(Adapted from “ Africa” by Alice Werner)

LISTENING COMPREHENSION: QUESTIONS

1. Where did the hyena place Tortoise? (1)

In the fork of a tree.

2. What did Leopard think when he saw Tortoise there? (1)

He wondered whether tortoises had learnt to climb trees.

3. Why did Hyena do this? (1)

For no real reason other than having a spiteful / mean character. (Being ill-natured.)

4. How did Tortoise show his gratitude towards Leopard? (1)

He painted him with beautiful spots.

5. Why did Zebra want to visit Tortoise? (1)

He also wanted to be beautiful.

6. What were the people doing in their gardens? (1)

They were digging / tilling / hoeing.

7. How did the two animals become wild animals? (2)

The villagers wanted to keep them as pets, as they were so beautiful, but as they did not want this, they escaped into the wild.

8. What did Tortoise do in response to Hyena’s request to be beautified, and why? (1)

He made him look ugly – to punish him.

9. When did Hyena realise what Tortoise had done to him. (1)

When the villagers called him ‘an ugly thing’.

10. Why was Hyena looking for Tortoise now? (1)

He wanted to find Tortoise to punish him.

11. Why could he not find Tortoise? (1)

Tortoise had escaped down a hole.

12. What is the moral of the story? (2)

Good deeds are rewarded and evil deeds make you ugly.

13. Can you think of another moral that might be appropriate for this story? (1)

One should not envy others. (any acceptable answer)

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