Psychological, emotional, linguistic and communicative functions of powerful listening through story-telling.

1. TITLE

2. From
Method
to
Content

3. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.”
Steven Covey
In English language teaching….
What is listening?
What is comprehension?
And what about self-expression?

6. Heart of listening
Feel
&
reply

7. The many flavours of English
• Narrators, writers and different accent from the
storytelling listening extracts.
Extract one
Russian Dolls (A)
Narrator Michael Gyori: Germany/Hawaii
Writer Sylvia Guinan

8. Russian Dolls (A)
Short extract
Percival Crabtree woke up feeling anxious
and agitated. This wasn’t unusual. In fact, this
was how he felt whenever he had nothing to
worry about. Not having problems was kind of
alarming. It could mean that he was losing his
memory, or worse still, that the doom-filled
prophets of his mind were finally on strike.

9. The many flavours of English
• Narrators and writers, and different accents from
the storytelling listening extracts.
Extract two
Russian Dolls (B)
Narrator Sylvia Guinan: Ireland
Writer Sylvia Guinan

10. Russian Dolls (B)
She’s too sunny for this
shady neighbourhood, and
his misery loves the kind
of company that no rosy
cheek can ever give him”

11. The many flavours of English
• Narrators, writers and different accents from the
storytelling listening extracts.
Extract three
How the shiny fall
Narrator Kerstin Hammes: Germany, England
Writer Kerstin Hammes

12. How the Shiny fall
• When I was very new, I was the darling of
the whole shop.

13. The many flavours of English
• Narrators, writers and different accents from the
storytelling listening extracts.
Extract four
Survival
Narrator Chaouki Mkaddem: Tunisia
Writer Chaouki Mkaddem

14. Survivor
Once upon a time there was a n old lion

15. The many flavours of English
• Narrators, writers and different accents from the
storytelling listening extracts.
Extract five
Get a life
Narrator Jason R. Levine: United States
Writer Jason R. Levine

16. Get a Life
I got to know
this kid when
I got to junior
high

17. Ideas for class
• Your course book
• A typical course
unit:
Vocabulary
Grammar
Themes/topics
• It can actually be a
source for story
inspiration.
• The main reason why
course books don’t
• Take the words students
engage us is because we
are learning and turn
don’t experiment, adapt
them into oral or digital
and build upon them.
story telling tasks.

18. Digital listening activities
• For digital activities I use ClubEFL for
making listening quizzes. You can make
quizzes and games from audio
stories, record your own voice for the
quizzes or your students can make their
own quizzes and share them with other
children all over the world.
Here are some very short stories and
verses for children.

19. Should you tell stories in class?
What would prevent you from telling stories in class?
How is it different from using standard materials?
Here are some extra sources for stories and pronunciation practice
The inner workings of the
storyteller’s art
Mario
Rinvloucri
Britlit
Young
learners
Natural
English

20. Oral listening activities
Bringing life into the classroom.
Listening through social and emotional learning.
Have different kinds of informal storytelling
sessions where you pick topics and share stories
in small groups or whole class, while giving
student specific listening instructions.This is great
for linguistic and social listening and you can use
this time for relationship building or discussing
problems that students may have. You can also
cleverly
Encourage subconscious use of target language
being learnt in a natural way.

21. Make belief Comix
• I’m devoting a slide to this website because it bridges the
gap between digital and oral story-telling and between
functional and social/emotional learning.
You can use comic prompts for amazing oral story-telling
activities to enhance listening in class. You can also use
lots of other listening games or communication activities
with make belief comix..
Listening
and
speaking

22. Listen and express
Kids can make
their own
comics, listen
and share.

23. Some voice recording tools
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Audioboo
Fotobabble
Voki
Blabberize
Vocaroo
Audacity
Screenr

24. Some video-making tools
• Go animate
• Smilebox
• Eduglogster
• With eduglogster
students can video
record themsleves
speaking about a
topic on an electronic
poster they design
themselves. Then
they all share their
stories – listening and
stort-telling.