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The snow brought us closer!

Submitted by singerina on 2 February, 2012 - 14:15

Dear fellow bloggers, I have been absent for some days now.

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Storytelling response tasks

Submitted by David Heathfield on 12 July, 2011 - 13:08

Response tasks are designed to give students the chance to express themselves creatively and openly, not for comprehension checking.

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Teaching students the shortest tale

Submitted by David Heathfield on 5 July, 2011 - 08:28

This is one of the quickest ways I know of teaching a tale and boosting students’ confidence in themselves as storytellers.

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Storytelling to celebrate cultural diversity

Submitted by David Heathfield on 7 June, 2011 - 10:59

Many of us work with groups of students from more than one cultural background while others teach largely monocultural groups of students. In both cases, there is opportunity to celebrate diversity through the telling of traditional tales, whatever the age group and profile of our students.

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Ask and imagine the story

Submitted by David Heathfield on 7 June, 2011 - 10:53

This is a story-telling activity which involves the whole class, and may be used with adult or younger learners.

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Introduction to my thesis: Teaching English using strategies based on storytelling and stand up comedy

Submitted by dongatico on 4 April, 2011 - 05:24

Introduction

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Warming stories

Submitted by evab2001 on 2 February, 2011 - 22:12

I attended Winter Warmer of British Council, Istanbul today.

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I envy the puppets!

Submitted by seabiscuit on 2 February, 2011 - 21:58

Yes, it's really true. Because, kids prefer to talk to puppets! When Dr.

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Change of Storytelling

Submitted by Mercedes Viola on 6 August, 2010 - 16:11

Intresting interviews:

http://vimeo.com/12999733

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The power of stories in practice

Submitted by Carol Read on 5 February, 2010 - 12:04

As a coda to my last post, I’d like to describe two anecdotes from my own teaching experience which illustrate the power of stories in practice when working with children. The first comes from a time when I organised a drama week at the school where I was working to coincide with the end of the autumn term.

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