The emperor's new app: turning an old fable into modern satire
A storyteller retells The Emperor's New Clothes in a tech start-up; students craft and perform their own modern fable with a twist.
C2Adults55 minStorytelling
About this lesson
A C2 speaking lesson (storytelling). Warm-ups, role plays and discussion tasks — get the whole class talking.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Speaking
- Type
- Storytelling
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 55 minutes
- Topic
- Stories & fairy tales
- Activities
- Speaking / writing task, Key words, Reading text, True / False, Matching
- Key words
- irony, satire, Never had… / Not once did…, It was then that…, the rule of three, understatement, to keep up appearances, the emperor has no clothes
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Adapt a traditional tale into a satirical modern story and perform it with style
- Use literary devices such as irony, inversion and the rule of three for effect