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Monday, June 11, 2012

Time to tell a story

When I was little, the bed time was the most exciting time for it was time for a story. My mum read a story or two from our library of picture books. She was busy, looking after a big family- my grandparents, my aunt, uncles and even cousins. Only at night, after finishing her daily mission, she got time to sit next to me and she opened the door to the land of full of adventures and excitements.
After going though the same amazing experience as a mum - sharing the numbers of wonderful bedtime stories with my own baby, I have become a big fan of stories and started to suspect that everyone has a story or two to tell. Any stories, from the world news to your daily life, can be as interesting as the good old bedtime story from the beloved library.

Some days, stories come to you unexpectedly without any efforts at all but most of the days, you might have to go and fish some. These are  places you may find some intriguing stories:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/
http://www.eslfast.com/eslread/ss/s001.htm
http://www.simpleenglishnews.com/
http://www.booksie.com/
http://www.worldstories.org.uk/
http://www.poemhunter.com/
http://www.storyhunter.tv/blog
http://www.thestorylibrary.com/

And also please keep this in mind: every single ordinary day has a fascinating potential to be a great story to share with others. Let's make this blog a place to share such stories.


“If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!” 

                                                                                                                                        Shel Silverstein

2 comments:

  1. Hi chico, I love the idea behind your blog. I love that your student Ryota posted his favorite song. It is a great starting point to have some meaningful communication with your students. I hope it goes well for you.

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  2. Hi Kristin,
    Thank you so much for your kind comment. Yes, Ryota's post is a greta idea:-) I got one more student to set up his blogger account to post something here.

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