AJ5415 Storytelling
for Young Learners
Kateřina Tomková, 2060@mail.muni.cz
Block 1
Saturday, March 20, 2021

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Our schedule today
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•0830-1000   Intro to Storytelling
•1000-1030   Coffee break & 1st research task
•1030-1200   Interactive block
•1200-1230   Lunch break & 2nd research task
•1230-1300   Summary, conclusion
•1300-1330   Individual consultations
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Resources
•All in the course‘s site in the IS:
•- this presentation
•- Rowling speech with gaps
•- Tomková Segmental pronunciation of English
•- Tomková Suprasegmental pronunciation of English
•- Tomková The best videos for teaching English pronunciation

Storytelling as a basic human need
•Salman Rushdie Teaches Storytelling and Writing | Official Trailer | MasterClass – YouTube
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History of Storytelling



Storytelling since times immemorial



The world‘s greatest storytellers
•Homer, Virgil, Aesop
•Bocaccio, Dante
•Chaucer
•Shakespeare
•Němcová
•Čapek
•Tolkien, Lewis, Pratchett
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The same or different?



Storytelling today
•In business: brands sharing their messages in ways that engage audiences and drive them to take a
desired action (like making a purchase, calling a sales person, downloading or subscribing to
content, etc.).
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•In politics: Political narrative as a term used in the humanities and political sciences the way
in which storytelling can shape fact and impact on understandings of reality.
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•In teaching: Storytelling is the oldest form of teaching. It bonded the early human communities,
giving children the answers to the biggest questions of creation, life, and the afterlife. Stories
define us, shape us, control us, and make us. Not every human culture in the world is literate, but
every single culture tells stories. =Failure stories are the best=
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•In law: ‘Liar Liar‘

Storytelling for chidren
•Vital for developing their imagination
•Important for their spatial and time awareness
•Crucial for developing their passive language sensitivity and active speaking skills •Integral for
family/community bonding and solidarity among generations
•Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Storytelling for children in foreign language teaching



Kinds of narratives
•Rhymes and songs=memorised formats
•(Budulinek, Father Abraham)
•Fairy-tales
•Simple real-life stories (Meurig)
•Family/community legends (Roots)
•Urban legends (Mammoth‘s trap)

The story of my life
•Medlovice n/H
•Ždánice
•The poor farmer‘s wife
•Ottawa (‘Say it for me‘; recording)
•Somalia; Michael Jackson; fertilise mum
•Qué será
•Meine Laterne
•My Fair Lady of the Vegetable Market
•A moment of enlightment
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Coffee break
Research tasks: Rushdie, Rowling, fertility rites in ancient Rome, how Sylvia Plath met Ted Hughes,
your own favourite storytellers, the origins of St. Patrick‘s Day, Hamlet‘s monologue, Beckett x
Moree

Interactive block
•Results of research discussed in breakout rooms
•Back in the main session: secondary presentations of research results
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•‘Awnie‘s House‘ pandemic video
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Lunch break
Research task: fertility rites in ancient Rome


Summary, conclusions, questions,
plans for Block 2
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•Homework: submit a 2- minute recording in the File Vault (Poskytovna), by May 9 (=Mothers‘ Day)

So long…
Have a pleasant, covid-free EASTER!
I am free for individual/group consultations.