University Of Delaware

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University Of Delaware
English Language Institute
Partenership 4 Teaching
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Can you remember a story you heard when you were
young ?
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Teaching The 4 Skills Through Stories
Prepared by / Amira Fayez
Marmar_habashi2000_at_yahoo.com
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Stories
This is the power of the story .We can remember
it even we are getting old so Im going to speak
about teaching the 4 skills through stories.
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Activity(1)

• The class should be divided into three groups.
• The first group will be given a story. They must
  act it out
• The second group will be some pictures .They
  must number them and tell a story about the
  pictures
• The third group will be given sentences, and they
  will rearrange it to make a complete story.

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Does this activity succeed in using
stories to teach the skills?
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Activity(2)
Every group will be given a sentence. It will be
the beginning of a story .Students have to
continue the sentence, making it a complete
story. Then each group will choose one member to
read it in front of the class.
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Activity(3)
The teacher tells a story to the class. The
students should listen to him careful. Then they
will be given some pictures to arrange them
according the incidents of the story.
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Why storytelling ?
Having students to tell stories from their lives
or listening to stories is one way to help them
connect meaningfully with the language. The more
meaningfully connection, the more learning will
take place.
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Why storytelling ?

• As learning tool , stories can encourage
  students to explore their unique expressiveness.
• And high lighten students ability to
  communicate through thoughts and feelings in an
  articulate lucid manner.
• Storytelling can be nurturing way to remind
  students with the spoken language.

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The goals

• Encourage students to use their own words to
  produce a story.
• To involve students to speak and communicate in
  English.
• Making students the centre of the
• educational approachment.
• Utilize group work and emphasize oral
  intelligibility

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References
www.storyarts.com www.go4english.com www.short-s
tories.com www.oddsbodkin.com www.thestoryteller
.org.uk