Sorry, but what does this have to do with folktales from around the world? Interesting activities, though.

I completely understand. I had to teach this last year. I opened up the class to a discussion. It also included my co-teacher, so everyone was pleased. I asked them about Korean Folktales, and they shared tons of interesting stories. I think I learned more than they did. It was great =)

Its often that the subject of the lesson has little or nothing to do with the conversation portion for the lesson.  If the conversation topic is opposite of the lesson, I tend to ignore the subject of the lesson  They will learn about it in their reading and grammar classes.  I  to put emphasis on the conversational aspects of the Lesson, not the subject of the lesson.
For example, the goals for lesson 3 are for the students to learn how to make suggestions, and ask and answer questions about "due dates."  Most of their test questions on the Mid term and Finals will come from            In Conversation and Listen and Talk.  This has been my experience.

I found a youtube video of a story involving Paul Bunyan.  So I made a little powerpoint and some worksheets.  The students cut out the words at the bottom and put the story in order.  We check the order together.  Then the students draw pictures to illustrate the story.  If there's time, they can tell me about a Korean story on the back of the sheet.  This lesson might be short for you because we do other secretarial things at the beginning of our class.  Enjoy!

I agree with JJWON. Most all my lesson is based on When is it due? and Why don't you try this? I'm still working on the powerpoint, but I will attach the worksheets I made for this. Both are fill in the blanks. One worksheet is a dialogue that one student reads to the other and the partner fills in the blanks from listening.

prshown - your files don't seem to work, and if there is a way of solving the problem it's beyond my capabilities because I have a computer set up in Korean

Here is my contribution to this one... I've used part of a power point from lisapo (I believe) as well as adding a few more concepts.  I'm having an open class for the parents so I had to make it really colorful and flashy.  I didn't really hit on any of the folktale stuff except for on the first page.  Those are some Korean folk tales, but these are more specifically covered in the reading section so I won't be covering them.  I'm working on a due dates activity as well so I'll try to post that soon. Cheers and thanks everyone!

I was also having some trouble with this. The listen/talk exercise seems so disconnected from the actual lesson material. At best I could think of trying a jigsaw puzzle style. Where each group is given the major events of a story and have to piece it back together to read for the class, but i'm not sure how it would go over.

EDIT: So I found a great website with some simple language stories, along with illustrations. I took some of the pitures there. Simplified the words a bit more and made a .ppt of the three little pigs story. For the lesson I tried to get the students to guess what would happen next. The ppt might be a little basic for middle school students but you can talk about things after the story and ask questions like

1) what would you make a house out of?
2) What would you do if a wolf knocked on your door? What would you say to him?

It was a good way of spending the last 10 minutes or so of class.
Website link: http://www.kids-pages.com/stories.htm?count=6

Someone made a similiar suggestion for a first grade lesson awhile back, but I think I'll play heads up seven up with the kids, just to break up this humdrum chapter! When the kids in the seats stand up to choose who picked them, I'll have them draw a phrase from a cup, it will say "I am bored" or "I am tired" and the students will have to respond with a suggestion "Go play" or "Take a nap." Then they can pick who choose them. Simple. I'll probably use shelia's awesome ppt to introduce the phrases and give some initial practice.

I introduced the topic by seeing which folktales or fairy tales the students already knew. As it turns out, they're quite popular here. I then focussed on Little Red Riding Hood. I compared the classic version of the story with Ridinghoods Anonymous from Rocky and Bullwinkle. The students seemed to really enjoy it!