Model Answer, Unit 5, Activity 2.0 Step B, Intergenerational Language Learning
One idea of how storytelling could work in the care setting might be to draw on the ‘Punch and Judy’ tradition in the UK. This way, you can draw on participants’ childhood memories and are able to contextualise the storytelling very well, even by managing participants’ expectations with regard to what they are about to see, the kind of story they will see and hear etc.
A storytelling sequence could work as follows:
The tutor could tell a well-known story, such as a fairy tale, by using props such as puppets, the Prince and the Princess, even a pop-up theatre curtain as in a traditional puppet theatre.
The participants could be asked to guess: the title of the story, what happens in the story.
The tutor could ask the participants to work out the names of the characters and any other key words used in the storytelling.
Building on this, the tutor could then note down key words from the story and teach these words using the multisensory approaches you have come across in Units 3 and 4.
A key aspect of working with the storytelling is to get participants to reminisce about their childhood and possible experiences with storytelling. This could be done in connection with the OurStory App, which you encountered in Unit 4. Participants could use an image to talk about their own childhood and maybe even use a few words in the target language in their narrative which they have learned in connection with the storytelling.
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