SWEDISH DAY!!!

 Today's class was completely different because of the visit of a teacher Glimäng Molin Swedish Malmo University to talk about storytelling.

Molin explained why it was good to perform storytellers in class. The reasons are:

- Motivation: developing creativity and imagination. Children usually appreciate narratives and are willing to listen to, read, or talk about stories.

- Meaning: Stories are filled with meaning and when children find meaning, they are rewarded through understanding.

- Communication: reading, listening to stories and responding generates communication language and opportunities for development.

Later Molin said a series of recommendations to consider when making a storyteller, these were:

- Firstly it is important that the content is known by the students.

- Secondly, we need to use different versions of the story.

- Thirdly, it is very important to make sounds when telling the story.

- Finally, if we see that the vocabulary is very difficult we can give them a key vocabulary.

Molin then gave us a story about which we should work in pairs, it was the story of Room on the Broom. The story is about a witch who flies around the countryside, she drops various objects, which are picked up one by one by animals. As thanks, she offers all the animals a lift.

The activities were:

- Read the story together   

- Character List

- Make a story map

- Find tat ae repeated phrases in the story

The teacher told us that due to the large number of characters who appeared in the story, we should introduce them before starting. As we have seen before this will serve as a piece that will help us to create the neccesary context before starting the activity

In the next link you can find a lot of woorksheets for teaching "Room in the Broom". There are differents printable worksheets for many levels: beginners, elementary, intermediate or advanced. We hope you like it!

http://www.eslprintables.com/reading_worksheets/tales_and_stories/room_on_the_broom/

Finally we saw a video of Pie Corbett storytelling by the "Red Hen". You can see in the next video:

The class was very interesting because Molin shown us another type of activity that we can put into practice when we are teaching, also having experiences with teachers from foreign countries is always enriching.