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Date: 27
Jan 2020 This
webpage provides links to material related to the CSF 2020 Workshop on "Storytelling for Teaching-and-learning Languages" (especially English). This Workshop is
scheduled to occur at the NKT College of Education (on Dr Besant Road,
Triplicane), on Wed 12th Feb 2020, 10am to 12noon. College students would
be the primary trainees in this Workshop.
If you might like to
attend this Workshop as an observer, please give me (Eric Miller) a call (at 98403
94282). Apologies -- there
would be no videoconference for this event. _________________ The facilitators of
the CSF 2020 edition of the Workshop on "Storytelling for Teaching-and-learning Languages" would be 1) Srividya
Veeraraghavan, 2) Kanaga R., 3) Shital N., 4) Banumathy H., and 5) myself (Eric
Miller). Next year (CSF 2021),
we are planning many more Storytelling-related Workshops, facilitated by many
people. For additional info about
this, please inquire. _________________ Material on this topic
that has been sent in by various Festival participants is here. Many thanks! Please
send more! _________________ Material related to the upcoming (CSF 2020)
edition of the Workshop on "Storytelling
for Teaching-and-learning Languages" that has been supplied by facilitators of the CSF 2020 edition
of Workshop includes: *** 1) Workshop Handout (from CSF 2019). 2) Workshop Notes. Including, Activity 1 -- A Sentence and Drills Take one sentence and
work with it in the following ways -- Substitution drills (change subject, object, tense). Transformation drills (statement [may,
might, could, should, would, will], question, command). Accumulation drills (add an adjective to
describe a thing [noun or pronoun]; add an adverb to
describe an action [a verb]). Activity 2 -- Vocabulary and Grammar. A) Vocabulary: Fill in the blank -- Compose a sentence
that ends with one of the words. B) Vocabulary: Puns -- Compose a sentence
that includes both words. (And tongue-twisters,
just for fun.) C) Grammar: Using Contractions -- Write/say it with and
without the contraction. D) Grammar: Subject and Verb -- They have to match,
singular or plural. Activity 3 -- Children's
singing-games Featuring, 1) Repetition with
variation. 2) Physical action. 3) Questions and
answers. 4) Role-playing. Activity 4 -- Some Popular Questions What is your name? Where are you from? What are you doing
today? What are you
doing? (Studying, Working, etc?) Where are you going? What do you want? What are you thinking
about? Other speech used in situations that often come up in
daily life. *** Activity 5 -- Characters and Speech "Three Little
Pigs". "I'll huff and
puff and blow your house down." Repetition is in the
sentence, and also the situation and sentence is repeated 3 times. A story, "Lost in a Forest of Words". Speech by Characters: Statements and
conversations by various characters. Story characters could
have unique attitudes (tones, emotions, etc), which could be expressed in
their speech. A character's speech
could be, slow/fast. loud/soft. words slurred together
/ words distinct. formal / informal
language. contractions / no
contractions. 3) A recording the videoconference of the CSF
2019 edition of this Workshop (which occurred on Fri 8th Feb 2019) is here
(88 minutes). _________________ Best regards, -
Eric 98403 94282 eric@storytellinginstitute.org Chennai Dr Eric Miller Links to info about Chennai Storytelling Festival 2020 (Fri 7th to Sun 16th Feb) are near the top of http://storytellinginstitute.org <end>
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