Pour raconter une histoire, il faut connaître le vocabulaire de quelques champs lexicaux :
- champ lexical de l'école : a school, a pen, a pencil, a teacher, a book, a ruler, a school bag, a rubber, scissors...
- champ lexical de la famille : the father, the mother, the sister, the brother, the grandfather, the grandmother, a daughter, a son, the parents …
- champ lexical des loisirs : to read, to play football, to watch TV, to play basketball, to swim, to listen to music, to play an instrument, to ride a bike …
- champ lexical des lieux : the school, the house, the swimming pool, the beach, the mountains, the zoo, the supermarket...
Il faut également connaître quelques adjectifs et leur contraire :
- beautiful/ugly
- good/bad
- tall/short
- young/old
- hot/cold
- big/small
Il est utile de savoir la file numérique :
- one,
- two,
- three,
- four,
- five,
- six,
- seven,
- eight,
- nine,
- ten,
- eleven,
- twelve,
- thirteen,
- fourteen,
- fifteen,
- sixteen,
- seventeen,
- eighteen,
- nineteen,
- twenty (20),
- thirty (30),
- forty (40),
- fifty (50),
- sixty (60),
- seventy (70),
- eighty (80),
- ninety (90),
- one hundred (100) …
Enfin, lorsqu'on raconte une histoire, il faut la situer :
- dans le temps : today, yesterday, tomorrow, on Monday...
- dans l'espace : it is in (dans), under (sous), on (sur), behind (derrière), in front of (devant)...
