Once upon a time : using stories in the language classroom /

Morgan, John,

Once upon a time : using stories in the language classroom / John Morgan and Mario Rinvolucri. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1983. - viii, 120 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Section 1: Telling a story -- The hunchback -- The river -- Section 2: Stories and follow-ups -- Revenge questions: The inventor -- King Caliban -- Theme pictures: Kacuy -- For beginners: Mrs Peters -- Taking roles: The bear that wasn't -- Theme words: Jack and the beanstalk -- Discussion: Peacocks -- Freyfaxi -- Shapes and characters: Rumpelstiltskin -- Completion: The two sons -- Yvonne -- Story to poem: Willow -- The singing mushrooms -- In new clothes: The piper of Rome -- Birth order: The Billy Goats Gruff -- Problem stories: The two doors -- Unexpected -- A serial story: The sign of the broken sword -- Story to picture: An anecdote -- Section 3: Retelling -- Parallel stories: Seguin's goat -- The cat that walked by itself -- The three bears -- Lazarus -- Storymaking and retelling: Two friends -- Fairy stories in the news: Bluebeard -- The python -- In old clothes -- Techniques: Stories. Section 4: Before I begin ... -- Grammar practice: Goldilocks -- Three wishes -- The three little pigs -- Theme sentences: Brontsha the Silent -- A picture starter: Gelert -- The pigeon -- Picture rose: The quarryman -- Section 5: Co-operative telling -- In the language lab: The unicorn -- Two brothers -- Group story: The ghost -- Dictation: The seventh rose -- No name woman -- Scene to story: The dragon of Nara -- A story from four words -- Three item stories -- Random story -- Picture composition -- Dictogloss: Solomon's judgement -- The forced burglar -- Section 6: Students' stories -- Mumble, listen, tell -- Comprehension questions: The giant tortoise -- Spoof stories: Cambodian soupstone -- Air travel -- Story of the film -- Love stories: Rapunzel -- From beginnings ... : Frog in a well -- Grandpa -- Three-wheeler -- ... to endings: Wild cat -- Objects tell stories -- Doodlestrips -- Triple stories -- Section 7: From the past -- Photos -- Yesterday -- Time-travel mirror -- It happened to me -- Techniques: Stories -- Fire stories -- Hiding things -- Heroes and heroines -- Stories from jobs: The carpark attendant -- Shame: The orchard. Section 8: Vanishing stories: God in a matchbox -- Section 9: Revision -- A story you really liked -- Music -- Doodlestrip review -- Section 10: Story pool -- Snow -- The pullover -- Honour -- The figtree -- Ivar -- In the cellar -- The donkey -- Oogledeboo -- The man, the snake and the stone -- The baby -- The husband -- Enkidu -- Ophir -- A horse race -- The wisdom of the world -- The princess and the pea -- The poem -- An old man -- Ants -- The magic barrel.



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GB83-40572


English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
Storytelling.

PE1128 / .O534 1983