Nursery rhymes and Storytelling

Nursery Rhymes

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Fables and Fairy Tales
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STORYTELLING BOOKS

Children as Story-tellers by Claire Jennings

1. The origin of storytelling

2. The importance of storytelling in our lives

3. Storytelling and children

4. Storytelling in the classroom: reasons

5. Storytelling: different skills

6. Types of stories to tell

7. Visual imagery to gain a sense of setting, character and plot

8. What a storyteller should do before the final telling

9. Learning a story to tell

10. Story aids

11. Creating a storytelling atmosphere/ audience participation

12. Working beyond the classroom

Storytelling with Children by Andrew Wright

1. Advantages of storytelling

2. Reading aloud and telling stories: advantages and disadvantages

3. What we should take into account when choosing a story

4. Learning a story to tell

5. Getting ready to tell a story

6. How to begin telling a story/ voice/ language/ the body/ interruptions

7. Children as storytellers or readers

8. Activities to do before telling the story

9. Activities to do while telling the story

10. Activities to do after the story

11. storytelling across the curriculum

12. storytelling and grammar

Some questions to analyze your storytelling:

1. What were your first steps?

2. What were the feelings towards the story the first time you read it? Did those feelings change? Why?
   

3. How did you get ready to tell the story? Did you need to memorize any important sentences or phrases?

4. When telling the story in the classroom, how did you create the atmosphere? How did this affect the rest of the storytelling?

5. How did you bring the story alive?

6. How did you show the difference among the characters?

7. Did you make your characters laugh, dance, sing…?

8. Did you use body language?

9. How did you get your audience involved?

10. Did you encourage your students’ imagination?

11. Did you pause in any key position in the story? Why?

12. What aids have you used? What other aids could you have used?

13. How did you work/could you have worked with your students before, during and after the storytelling? Did you keep in mind the four macroskills of the language?

14. Were your students satisfied with your storytelling? How did you realize?

15. How could you work with the story across the curriculum?

Note: This is just a guide, I still have to upload some material

Education

Listening, speaking and collocations:


Reading and speaking:
Read the texts. What's your opinion?




Tick the best summary of each of them.
Vocabulary and collocations:

Reading and speaking:


Role-play: Parents meeting at school

Look at the sentences below and try to guess the meaning of the underlined lexical items:

1. Janey was as good as gold at school; she never got into trouble.

2. He is the apple of his mother’s eye; she thinks he is perfect and couldn’t imagine him doing anything naughty.

3. The teacher is extremely strict; she won’t even allow talking in class at all!

4. He gets whatever he asks for. If he wants toys, he gets them. If he wants money he gets it. He is really spoilt.

5. My mother is really a softie; she never tells me what to do or when to come home she is really lenient. If I get into trouble, she never punishes me. I don’t think that she has ever told me off!

6. The children in the new school are completely out of control. They fight in class; they throw things at the teachers and they are often absent. The principal doesn’t seem to be able to do anything to stop them.

7. My two-year-old sister is really difficult; she throws things and has tantrums. She often cries and generally won’t do anything that you ask her to; she’s really difficult to handle.

8. The little girl looks like an angel; butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth! She is a sweetheart.

9. Janey’s parents are very overbearing; they are always at school checking on her; they won’t let her go out without them.

Listening Comprehension: Distance Learning

http://www.goear.com/listen/7bbf7c3/from-a-distance-

Grammar: Indirect Speech

Fashion

Communication: Ask your classmates
Which of these things

Vocabulary: Classify words and phrases from the previous exercise into:

for clothes/for décor/ for many different things

More vocabulary:

Speaking:



Debate: write quotations about fashion and give your opinion

Some examples:

a) "Why does mum spend so many hours getting ready? She doesn't need to wear so much make-up! She's more beautiful without it!"

b) "Fashions fade, style is eternal."
Yves Saint Laurent

c) "Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."
Henry David Thoreau

d) "If you don't follow fashion you are nobody."

e) "Men act like women and it's difficult to have a relationship because I like men in that old fashioned way."
Sharon Stone


Speaking: Bring a picture to the classroom and describe it using the appropriate vocabulary.
Dictation and reading aloud: The Emperor's New Clothes

http://www.goear.com/listen/6f86bba/The-Enperor%5Cs-New-Clothes-

Reading and speaking:


Listening comprehension: Debate on Obesity
http://rapidshare.com/files/284607695/Debate_on_Obesity.mp3

Listening comprehension: Debate on Obesity

Deadline: Friday September 25th

1. Read the following quotations.

2. Listen to the recording and see what the speakers are refering to with these words.

3. Try to relate the cartoons to the debate.

4. Choose 1 quotation (or more) and give your opinion. Record it (3-5 minutes)

Do you agree?

1. English man: “It's better than starving to death.”

2. EM: “Worrying is one of the things that make us fat.”

3. American man: “I see it as being an epidemic of the future.”

4. Aussie: “A financial issue is part of it.”

5. EM: “Part of the problem is that they're hot-housing children.”

6. Aussie: “Children are probably experiencing a lot more stress.”

7. EM: “It's part of the consumer society.”

8. American Woman: “I think you also have to educate kids as well.”

9. AW: “Kids watch too much TV.”

10. AW: “We have working mothers.”

11. EM: “Everyone has this idea that they have to look young.”

12. Aussie: “Your mental state has a lot to do with it.”

13. Aussie: “Everybody should just find their natural balance.”

Grammar: Modal Verbs
http://rapidshare.com/files/298262530/Modal_verbs-_Devoloping_Grammar_in_context.pdf

Magazine articles

More Intonation Practice

Activities done in class

EXERCISE 1: Listen to the dialogue and transcribe it. Identify tones and tonic syllables in the interviewer's utterances. Why is he using these tones?
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EXERCISE 2: Listen to the recording and transcribe the utterances. Identify tones and tonic syllables in the second tone unit in each example. Why is the speaker using these tones?
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EXERCISE 3: Listen to the dialogue and transcribe it. Identify tones and tonic syllables. Why are the speakers using these tones?
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EXERCISE 4:
a) Listen to the introduction.
Discussion:
Where are the speakers? What are they doing?
Where do people often wait? What do people/you usually do while waiting?
What do you talk about while waiting? What is "smalltalk"?
b) Listen to the whole recording.
Discussion: What happened?
*Identify vocabulary related to medicine and dentistry.
http://ifile.it/dk93qfv

Homework for Wednesday August 5th: Vocabulary related to:
-being nervous
-medicine: symptoms, illnesses, what doctors do when they examine you, what the doctor might ask you, what the doctor prescribes...

c) Listen to the recording and identify tones and tone units.

The Dentist

The idea for this sketch came from a member of the ETT who had studied to be a dentist. It was first performed in 1975. In the stage version, it is a very visual sketch with a very large number of props, so we have rewritten it somewhat for this book. It has, in fact, been used in ETT shows in several versions over the years, including a 1992 rewrite in which the patients were Batman and Superman, and the dentist had an assistant, with those two characters turning out to be Catwoman and Parrotwoman respectively.

Scene A dentist's waiting-room.

Characters Two patients: a man and a woman/A 'dentist'/The real dentist

The man and the woman are siting in the waiting-room. The woman is calm, but the man is very nervous.

Man Um ... Is he good? (1)

Woman Pardon?

Man The dentist (2). Is he good?(3)

Woman I don't know.

Man You don't know? (4)

Woman No. I haven't seen him before. He's new (5)

Man New!? (6)

Woman Yes. It's his first day.(7)

Man Oh ... This is my first visit, you know.

Woman Oh, really?

Man It's the first time I've been here.

Woman Oh.

Man Don't you understand? It's the first time I've been to the dentist in my life!

Woman I see.

The man looks at his watch.

Man He's late, isn't he?

Woman Well, it is his first day.

Man Oh, well, perhaps I won't wait. I can come back tomorrow ... or the next day.

They hear the dentist coming.

Woman Ah, here he comes now.

Man (Disappointed) Oh, good.

The 'dentist' comes in, carrying a large bag.

'Dentist' Ah, good morning, good morning, good morning. Sorry I'm late. Now, who's first?

Woman He was here first.

Man Oh no, after you.

Woman No, no, you were before me.

Man No, no, ladies first.

'Dentist' Now, now, what seems to be the matter? (8)

Man I've got a bad tooth. (9)

Woman So have I.

'Dentist' Well, I can do you both at the same time.

Man/Woman Both at the same time? (10)

'Dentist' Yes, I've got two pieces of string. Look!

Woman String?(11) To take out a tooth?(12) Have you done that before? (13)

'Dentist' Not on people, no. But I tried it this morning on the cat. (14)

Woman And was the cat all right?

'Dentist' Oh, yes! It got up(15) ran across the room (16), and jumped out of the window(17). And we live on the thirteenth floor (18).

Woman The thirteenth floor? (19)

'Dentist' Don't worry, the cat's not superstitious.

Man But dentists don't use string to take out teeth!

'Dentist' Don't they? What do you want, then?

Man Well, to begin with, I'd like an anaesthetic.

'Dentist' Oh, you'd like an anaesthetic, would you? Just a minute.

He takes a hammer out of his bag.

'Dentist' Ah, yes. Here we are.

Woman What's that?

'Dentist' A hammer.

Man Ah! Is that the anaesthetic?

'Dentist' I'm not sure. It's the first time I've given(20) an anaesthetic (21). Sit still.

He hits the table; this frightens the man, who faints.

Man Oh! Ohh!

'Dentist' Oh, it works! He puts the hammer down.

'Dentist' Now, madam, what's the matter with you? (22)

Woman I've got a pain.

'Dentist' Where?

Woman In my mouth.

'Dentist' Yes, I know it's in your mouth(23), but which tooth?(24)

Woman This one here.

'Dentist' Ah yes, a molar.

Woman What are you going to do?

'Dentist' I'm going to take it out.

Woman How?

'Dentist' I don't know.(25)

Woman You don't know? (26)

'Dentist' No. This is the first time I've taken out a molar. In fact, it's the first time I've taken out a tooth.

Woman The first time you've taken out a tooth!

'Dentist' Yes. This is a very important day for me -my first extraction. Now, where's that hammer?

Woman Listen, I don't want the hammer(27) and I don't want the string (28). I want you to take my tooth out with a pair of -

'Dentist' A pair of scissors?

Woman No.

'Dentist' A pair of socks?

Woman No.

'Dentist' A pair of trousers?

Woman No.

'Dentist' Oh. Just a minute.

He looks inside his bag, and takes out a large pair of forceps.

'Dentist' These?

Woman Yes, I suppose so.

'Dentist' Right then. Open your mouth.

Woman But what about the anaesthetic?

'Dentist' Oh. yes. Pass me the hammer.

Woman I don't want the hammer!(29) I want a proper anaesthetic.(30) I want an injection.(31)

'Dentist' An injection?

Woman Yes.

'Dentist' Just a minute.

He looks inside his bag again, and takes out a large syringe.

'Dentist' Ah yes, this is for injections, isn't it? How does it work?

Woman Well, you're the dentist. Don't you know?

'Dentist' No. It's the first time I've used one of these. Oh well, I'll have a try. Open your mouth.

Woman Er, no ... I don't think you really know ... er ... no, no, I'll come back another day. I -

The man wakes up.

Man Oh! Where am I ? Hey! What are you doing?

'Dentist' I'll be with you in a moment, sir. Now, just sit still, madam ...

Man No, no, stop that! You're absolutely crazy!

Woman I agree. He's absolutely crazy, completely mad. Let's get out of here.

Man Oh yes, good idea.

'Dentist' So you don't want me to take out that molar?

Woman Certainly not. (To the man) Come on.

Man Yes. Good idea.

The man and the woman leave.

'Dentist' Hmm, that worked very well.

He puts his things into the bag, laughing to himself.

'Dentist' 'But dentists don't use string to take out teeth!' - 'Oh, you'd like an anaesthetic, would you?'

The real dentist arrives.

Dentist Oh, good morning. Sorry I'm late. It's my first day. It's the first time I've been here. Are you the only one?

'Dentist' Yes, there's just me.

Dentist Right. You can come straigh

t in, then.

'Dentist' Oh, good. I hate having to wait.