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Me, Tarzan! - May 15, 2022
Lesson Collection #2 - Lesson 5
Remember the old Tarzan movies? Tarzan, the Ape Man, was raised in the jungles of Africa by apes. He never really learned how to speak English very well, although he could converse with the animals.
One day he met Jane, a beautiful British lass, and they fell madly in love (and eventually marry). But even in this romantic story, Tarzan cannot use pronouns very well, e.g.: Me Tarzan.
He's terrible with verbs, often simply omitting them altogether She Jane, and forget about articles, prepositions, indefinite pronouns, plural nouns, relative clauses, well... just about every other element of correct English.
These worksheets have the students assisting Tarzan with the captions in his photo album - and the students help Tarzan with his English!
Beginning with Me Tarzan, students write something like: I am Tarzan or My name is Tarzan in the photo album. This is a marvelous lesson for students to review all of the basic structures of simple English grammar, and they will have a lot of fun doing it, too!
Higher ability students could be encouraged to do a little research about the history of Tarzan then write the captions using relative clauses. For example:
This is Tarzan, the man whose parents were killed when he was a baby and who was raised by apes in Africa.
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