The presentation was in two parts. The warm up of the first part was a song and there was definition and description of the story telling project in my school with one to two minute video extracts illustrating the process. The videos will not appear on the presentation. The second half referred to the spice element in teaching with live demonstration performed on stage by four students.Neither the performances nor the videos referring to each spice category are appearing here. It all ended with the song Boom di clap ,boom , boom, boom and a little dancing on stage.

1. THE STORY TELLING PROJECT 2012 AND
THE SPICE ELEMENT IN TEACHING
By Zafi Mandali

2. Wordy Rappinhood - Tom Tom Club
What are words worth? What are words worth? - words
Words in papers, words in books , Words on tv, words for crooks
Words of comfort, words of peace , Words to make the fighting cease
Words to tell you what to do , Words are working hard for you
Eat your words but don't go hungry , Words have always nearly hung me
rat, rat, ah, ah, touni, touni, toun, asa, asa
aka, yaya, aka, yaya, oua, oua, tsin, tsin, tsin
What are words worth? What are words worth? - words
Words of nuance, words of skill , And words of romance are a thrill
Words are stupid, words are fun , Words can put you on the run
Mots pressŸx, mots sensŸx, Mots qui disent la vâýit? mots maudits, mots mentis,
Mots qui manquent le fruit d'esprit
rat, rat, ah, ah, touni, touni, toun, aka, aka
aka, yupi, aka, yupi, oua, oua, oua, tsin, tsin, tsin
What are words worth? What are words worth? - words

3. What are words worth? What are words worth? - words
rat, rat, ah, ah, touni, touni, toun, aka, aka
aka, yupi, aka, yupi, oua, oua, oua, tsin, tsin, tsin
Words can make you pay and pay, Four-letter words I cannot say
Panty, toilet, dirty devil
Words are trouble, words are devil , Words of anger, words of hate
Words over here, words out there , In the air and everywhere
Words of wisdom, words of strife , Words that write the book I like
Words won't find no right solution , To the planet earth's pollution
Say the right word, make a million , Words are like a certain person
Who can't say what they mean, Don't mean what they say
With a rap rap here and a rap rap there
Here a rap, there a rap , Everywhere a rap rap
Rap it up for the common good , Let us enlist the neighbourhood
It's okay, I've understood, This is a wordy rappinghood, okay, bye.
rat, rat, ah, ah, touni, touni, toun, aka, aka
aka, yupi, aka, yupi, oua, oua, oua, tsin, tsin, tsin
What are words worth? , What are words worth? - words
What are words worth? What are words worth? - words

4. Innovative practices that motivate
students and provide them with
high quality educational experience .
That is what the Tesol Convention call for
participation asked for and that is my topic.

5. What is digital story telling?
The modern equivalent of oral history. Storytellers create a
script, record it and use pictures and music to illustrate it.
A personal story is turned into three to five minute movie
which is shared and preserved with the help of the social
media.
http://www.storycenter.org
Google: GoAnimate Animoto www.makebeliefscomix.com

6. AN ALTERNATIVE VERSION OF
GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS

7. It was mummy bear who
made the coffee and woke Then daddy bear arrived at the
everybody up! table and sat at the big chair.
He took coffee and looked
the empty bowl. Baby bear
Incidentally, It was mummy who
came downstairs and looked
had unloaded the dishwasher!
at the empty bowl too.

8. It was mummy who went out in the …and croissants!
cold to fetch the newspaper…
It was mummy who It was mummy who
swept the floor! walked the dog…

9. and cleaned the cat’s tray drag themselves downstairs and
and now that they decided to grace mummy bear with their
grumpy presence, and stare at
her, mummy bear gasped: just once. I haven’t made
listen carefully you too, because the blinking porridge yet !!!
I am going to say this

10. Motivating students learning is entering their learning zone
How do we get the right part of the brain
Be at the Right Place
at the right
so as to notice, assimilate, internalize and apply?

11. How do we the learning of a language that is
and secure the underlying skills needed for?

13. Intergenerational
material My Definition of Story Telling
like chants,
rhymes, fictional
and non fictional
In other words
stories,
powerful teaching
international
material which
myths, parables, Story telling
allows modern
fables, legends, employs rhyming,
retelling that
folktales, fantasy singing, refrains,
passes wealth
stories, music,
of feelings, values,
adventure stories, pantomime,
wisdom, fun, wit
biographies, mannerism,
and stimulates and can be
history stories, props, make up ,
the imagination, delivered in
poems, action costumes,
adds choice, the form of
songs, rap songs posture, music, background
variety and narration,
repetition, power point, and
challenge to monologue,
contrast and digital support
your lesson dialogue,
movement, because we the
small sketch ,
action, pitch, and students are
role play,
tempo of voice digital natives
make believe
who want to
situations
touch our roots
and the
while flying
message is
forward along
illustrated with
with our digital
reality.

14. Photos

15. Why story telling?
20th of March World Story Telling Day
This is how we share experience, create community and hear
life's lessons.
Stories encourage love for words and participation in group
activities.
They create a culture of communication, confidence,
collaboration, contribution.

16. Language Spice
Rhymes
Group of words ending in the same sound. They raise awareness of
rhythm. If students clap or click their fingers rhythm and
physical responses are maintained.
Rhymes
Action rhymes: A sailor went to sea
Counting rhymes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Fish alive
Four Red Apples

17. Language Spice
Chants
Repetitive patterns with rhythm and rhyme that focus on aspects of grammar,
vocabulary, pronunciation, or structure. They beg for:
the right tone of voice
Finger and glove puppets
expression
attention grabbing props like
masks which tease out gesture
emotions and provide comfort
mime comes in
when words fail
movement
passion

18. Language Spice
Chants
To enchant our students. It is hard to be disenchanted from them.
Words are lifted and camp into their brain while speaking practice is
offered .
There are things I can do all by myself
Whether the weather is cold, whether the weather is hot
This the foot that kicked the ball
This is the house that Jack built
It shows how a simple base sentence may be extended. Lengthening a
sentence comes easy.

19. Language Spice
Songs and Raps
Music is the art of thinking with sounds. Songs have plots which can be perceived and expressed
in the students’ own manner and language chunks are learnt the music way.
Action songs Piano
Action rhymes Mulberry tree
Action songs Bear Hunt
For he is a jolly good fellow (3),
which nobody can deny (2)
Songs for Teaching / ELTV: English Language Teaching Video

20. Language Spice
Dramatised Reading
The piped Piper of Hamelin
Choral reading, Readers’ theater
It combines reading practice, performing and enhances reading skills and confidence.
This technique helps readers learn to read aloud with expression. No props are
used because the voice provides all of the drama of the story.
Monologues, Duos, Sketches
Duo: Rick is late.
Sketch: Green Ham and Eggs
Make believe
It is not a break from learning. It is the way children learn. Rumpelstiskin

21. Pronunciation Activities
Mr Porter loves his pasta,
No one else can eat it faster,
Mr. Porter’s sister Rita,
buys the pasta by the metre.
Mr porter’s older daughter
boils it all in tubs of water.
English Pronunciation in Use, Mark Hancock, Cambridge University Press

22. Language Spice
Poems
The dishes are done.
Written with a pen
If every parent and every child
read a poem a day,
their hearts would be lighter,
their worlds would be brighter,
their minds would soar far,
far away (Father Goose)
Kenn Nesbitt’s Poetry for kids / funny poetry for children / JOSIE’S POEMS

23. Language Spice Tongue Twisters
To help articulation
How many candy cans can a candy canner can If he can can candy cans?
Pickled peppers and Betty Botter
My friend Gladys
Oh, the sadness of her sadness when she is sad.
Oh, the gladness of her gladness when she’s glad
But the sadness of her sadness,
And the gladness of her gladness,
Are nothing like her madness when she’s mad!
The big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black
bug back.

24. Language Spice
Jokes/Anectods
Round like a shot
Going to bed the other night, I noticed people in my shed stealing things. I phoned the
police but was told no one was in the area to help. They said they would send someone
over as soon as possible.
I hung up. A minute later, I rang again. ‘Hello’, I said, ‘I called you a minute ago because
there were people in my shed. You don’t have to hurry now, because I’ve shot them.’
Within minutes there were half a dozen police cars in the area, plus helicopters and an
armed response unit. They caught the burglars red-handed.
One of the officers said: ‘I thought you said you’d shot them.’
To which I replied: ‘I thought you said there was no one available.’
Tony Gladstone

25. Language Spice
HOMONYMS
We know knowledge comes through associations
knight night
packed pact (agreement)
pause paws (cats transportation)
peal peel (fruit wrapping)
leek lick
cheeks chicks
BBC Learning English ESL Gold Fonetiks

26. Language Spice
Anagrams
They ignite the thinking process. Knowledge comes through associations.
ape (food word) pea
inch (body part) chin
cheater (a job word) teacher
pills (a food verb) spills
present (the species to which the snake belongs) serpent
reap (fruit word) pear
bowl (a verb meaning strike) blow
Mirror pairs
Some are precise sound mirrors only, some are spelling but not sound pairs.
trap - part , top – pot , dog – god, tip – pit, ten – net, pool – loop, star – rats, live – evil
English Pronunciation in Use, Mark Hancock. CUP www.ManyThings.org

27. Language Spice
Quotes
I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wild
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. Harold Hulbert
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute.
Margaret Atwood
“Those who the gods love grow young” Oscar Wilde
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how
unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and
forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real
chance of fun. Mignon McLaughin

28. Benefits of dynamic and generous storytelling
Students get physical and become active not passive receptors.
Creative potential and imaginative thinking is awakened to expressive
means like props, realia, visual aids, costumes, make up, sets, non
verbal communication, powerpoint, music
Students become the directors since teachers only make tentative
performance suggestions.

29. Benefits of dynamic and generous storytelling
They get a character to hide behind and battle their inhibitions
emerging more self confident.
So they acquire a positive self-image of being successful users of the
language.
They train their memory, a sense of discipline, control and time.
Society’s culture, values, principles are passed on.

30. Telling a story digitally entices multifunctioning kids who see the
challenge of expressing thoughts and messages in pictorial terms.
If we create an atmosphere in which stories are valued more in human
terms than in “learning English” terms then indifference disappears.
Rapport is spawned as students realise that you think of them as
people and not just students of English.
The story time turns into a shared experience of fun for them to
observe and learn from their classmates, build ties of respect,
cooperation, develop their socialization and bring their own personal
experiences in the classroom.

31. Food for thought
Our tools and teaching methods bear little resemblance with the ones
of last century.
The magic of technology has transformed us.
Still we complain of our students not focusing. But even Socrates
complained of his students being disrespectful.
We know technology is a mixed blessing. A lot is glossed over and
information is processed rapidly but also superficially.
“If we teach today students as we taught yesterday’s we rob them of
tomorrow” John Dewey

32. Bottom line
And if some of the previous aims are not achieved, rest assured that
story telling and the spice technique will help you connect, share and
unearth hidden strengths and passions.
This approach is not one size fits all. It provides personalization and
nurtures creativity.
Remember we do not learn a language by pushing buttons. We need
to get up, do it, say it and show it.

34. Where do we find all these?
Everywhere. A small sample here.
www.worldstories.org.uk
www.storybird.com Tutorials how to use storybird 1, 2, 3
www.toolsforeducators.com
www.littlebirdtales.com
Google :
Storyjumper.com
(the site allows students to write and illustrate a digital story from scratch)
Voicethread, Toondoo (to create strips, cartoons)
Teaching English Games
Discovery Education’s Free Puzzle maker. It is a tool that helps you create and
print customized word searches, puzzles, hidden messages and more