Speak aloud while the video is playing and try to explain what is happening. Mention the nouns, try to use the correct verb and see where your gaps are!
It’s night time, and we see Wallace sleeping. Everything starts shaking.
The knife falls off the bedside table and sticks in the ground. (FALL OFF)
Now we see Gromit, knitting in bed. His room starts shaking too, and the ball of wool falls off his bedside table.
Now we see a van pull up outside and there’s a sheep bleating. (PULL UP: arrive/stop/park)
Gromit hears him, and then we the sheep (Shaun) fell out of the van. Shaun then tries to get away. (FALL OUT OF)
The dog in the van opens the door as if he’s going to go get Shaun, but his partner grabs him and signals not to go.
Shaun goes in through the dog door/ flap. (GO THROUGH)
The van then drives off/away.
It’s morning now and Gromit is having his breakfast and reading a newspaper.
The breakfast alarm goes off, and we see Wallace in bed pushing the button. (GO OFF: In the context of an alarm, this means the alarm makes a noise)
Gromit pulls the lever and Wallace’s bed is tipped up for Wallace to slide out of bed, fall through a trap door and into his clothes. (TIP UP/ SLIDE OUT OF/ FALL THROUGH)
He lands in a kitchen chair and a machine puts his clothes on for him. (PUT ON)
Grommit hits a button and a porridge machine shoots some porridge out. A bowl appears from under the table, and the porridge lands/splats in the bowl. (SHOOT OUT)
The machine then starts malfunctioning and shoots more rounds of porridge at Wallace. Wallace blocks the porridge with his bowl at first, but he then gets plastered/ covered/ destroyed! (SHOOT AT)
Gromit goes over to the machine and turns it off.
Instructions: Look at the pictures below and try to retell the story out loud to yourself, to your study partner or to your teacher!
