Stories : narrative activities for the language classroom
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Stories : narrative activities for the language classroom
（Cambridge handbooks for language teachers / general editor, Michael Swan）
Cambridge University Press, 2003
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index
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Description
Stories are a wonderful way of helping students learn and acquire language. This book is for teachers who want to use stories in class but need a place to start. Stories is packed full of fun activities using different genres: soap opera, urban myth and newspaper reporting as well as advice on using stories in the classroom.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Activities
- Section A: activities 1-14 Learning about text as narrative genre:1 Sorting and sequencing
- 2 Musical orientation
- 3 Complications and resolutions
- 4 Choose your own adventure narrative
- 5 Starting at the end
- 6 Getting the point of a story
- 7 Point of view
- 8 Shaping facts to fit purpose
- 9 Troubles talk
- 10 Travel tales
- 11 Tall stories
- 12 In a nutshell
- 13 Rumour as narrative
- 14 Limericks.Section B: activities 15-28 Language learning through narrative lessons: 15 Text repair
- 16 Read, ask and tell
- 17 Again and again
- 18 Recorded anecdotes
- 19 Arguing a case
- 20 Describing the circumstances of a past event
- 21 Complaints in the context of a recount
- 22 Perfect match
- 23 Sound contrast
- 24 Schwa map
- 25 Milking a mystery
- 26 Finish my sentences
- 27 From short story to drama
- 28 Rewriting song lyrics. Section C: activities 29-42 Building a 'storied' class: 29 Story-telling as a social act
- 30 Every name has a story (1)
- 31 Every name has a story (2)
- 32 The landmarks of your life
- 33 Your language biography
- 34 Liar, liar, pants on fire
- 35 That's incredible!
- 37 Pet hates
- 38 Culture bump
- 39 Write my story
- 40 Parables
- 41 Mystery pebbles
- 42 Here comes the bride. Story bank
- References.
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