03/10/2020
In ‘part 1’ of ‘Tell me a story’ we described how a narrative framework provides a structure for a telling a personal story in a clear, coherent way. In part 2, we explore the forms of grammar and vocabulary that are most commonly found in a personal conversation story. We show how we were able to help our learners identify, practice and incorporate them into their own stories in a much more effective and accurate way.
In ‘part 1’ of ‘Tell me a story’ we described how a narrative framework provides a structure for a telling a personal story in a clear, coherent way.
In part 2, we explore the forms of grammar and vocabulary that are most commonly found in a personal conversation story. We show how we were able to help our learners identify, practice and incorporate them into their own stories in a much more effective and accurate way.
In our short storytelling course, the learners reviewed the form and use of the tenses. Firstly, they watched a short video clip of a movie star, who was taking part in a ‘chat show’. She told a story about an incident that happened to her when she was a child. The learners were then able to identify the tenses in the transcript of the story. This helped them to discover how the storyteller used the different tense to relate the past events to each other.
The learners used the same video clip and the transcript to notice the adjectives, adverbs and phrases that the storyteller used to describe how she felt. She was able to give her opinion of the events and to summarise the story at the end.
The learners reviewed and practiced adding linking and sequencing words to some example stories.
Finally, the learners were able to prepare and tell a memorable personal story using all the parts that they had studied on the course.
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