Stories: Narrative Activities for the Language Classroom

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Stories are a wonderful way of helping students to learn and acquire language. This book is packed full of fun activities using different narrative genres such as soap opera, urban myth and newspaper reporting, as well as advice on how to use stories in the classroom. The material is particularly suitable for teachers of adults and young adults. The book will help teachers to teach students the conventions of different narrative genres, enable students to work with stories to achieve language-learning objectives, and build a sense of community in the classroom.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 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