Tell us a Story

ISBN:	9791905231200
Author:	Michael Berman
Type:	EBook Download

A download resource provided in .pdf form to introduce storytelling to the classroom. The book is A4 size with 76 pages.

This book gives a description of the history and art of Storytelling.

Included are 30 stories based on myth, fable, fact and fiction from around the world – from Georgia to Wales to China to Germany to India and Japan.

Good English is based on the speaker's ability to paint a verbal picture to entertain, excite and inform the listener. This book gives much needed practice to the teacher and to the student based on the art and ability to tell stories.

Full notes for teachers are provided on how to exploit the stories to gain the most from the story and from the language.

Designed for teaching at Council of Europe language level CEF – B1/B2; Intermediate to Advanced English Language Level. Where CEF is Common European Framework.

Chapters have topics which include ...

• A storytelling lesson model
• Can dreams save lives?
• The Burden Basket (Leave your own problems at the door when visiting friends or work colleagues!)
• Stories for Personal Development
• Working with Parables
• Stories to make you Smile
• Stories and Spiritual Intelligence
• Stories from the Kabbalist (Teacher from Ancient times)

Each chapter's stories are self-contained and designed to have the stories told and exercises ready for immediate use.

The wonderful international mix of stories include:

• The earth will take its own (story from Georgia)
• The dogs hold an election (Native American)
• King Arthur and the order of the round table (England)
• Parts of the body (India)
• The clock
• The man who always said 'should'
• The dreams of a king
• The cracked pot (India)
• Fortune (Georgia)
• Bundles (Germany)
• The Window
• Loss of memory (China)
• Can dreams save lives? (China)
• Urashima (Japan)
• The train
• The gypsy boatman
• The importance of miracles (Wales)
• The thief
• The devil money-lender (Russia)
• The value of an American 'Thank you' (India)
• Would you like to be rich? (Russia)
• The bald–headed man (Tibet)
• The gypsy and the priest (Russia)
• A leaf from the tree of knowledge
• About a certain king and his son (Georgia)
• The lost Axe (Buddhist)
• A wise lesson (Jewish)
• Guests (Lithuania)
• The fence
• Where the flowers grow

• The front cover illustration is a photo of an oil painting by Maka Batiashvili – an artist from Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia.