Handbook of Teaching Ideas

Written to accompany the tales on the audio cassette The Wife’s Letter and other Tales (1995)

• 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?