A Handbook of Teaching Ideas
to accompany the tales on the cassette The Wife's Letter and other Tales
(These tales will soon be available as MP3 files to download - mail for details.)
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The activities are:
- Reason to Beat your Wife Pre-listening partner work: The secret of a happy marriage
Post-listening role play
Hot-seat discussion: This story should not be told
- The Leprechaun and the Red Scarf Pre-listening small group / milling work: magical creatures
Post-listening: 1st & 2nd conditional
- The Wife's Letter Pre-listening small group work: cut-up story
Post-listening discussion: he war of the sexes
- The Miller and the Professor Small group work: using a skeleton to prepare to tell a story
Partner work: telling the story
Voice and body-language
- Rabbit and the Moon Pre-listening small group work: prediction about the story
vocabulary activity
Listening: skeleton writing
Post-listening: using the skeleton
- Old Woman and her Pig Pre-listening: pronunciation activity
Post-listening: Last-Line Race
- Prayer the Gods Answered Pre-listening: prediction exercise
Post-listening discussion: Can this be a religious story with such an ending?
From the Introduction to A Handbook of Teaching Ideas
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- Why use these tales for English teaching?
These tales provide an opportunity for your students to be totally immersed in a wave of language. Sounds frightening, doesn't it?
But the amazing thing is that students quickly find that instead of drowning, they are swimming. They are no longer working through a language exercise, they are enjoying taking part in real communication. An experience which is, for many, genuinely liberating.
- What these tales are
- Who the tales are for
- The aim of this cassette and handbook
- How to use them
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