E-10.12 Understand & Tell (Un) True Stories: News, Personal Experience & Fiction

Part Six of Speaking: Oral Language Skills for Real-Life Communication = Narration:  Story-Telling (True Stories & Fiction), pages 63-76  14 pages  Who It’s For: (Teachers & Helpers of) Progressing Language Learners Who Like—or Want to Get Into—Story-Telling: News, Personal Experiences, Fables, Anecdotes, Jokes    Why It’s Useful: When we want to report an occurrence, share an experience, or entertain, we’re likely to “tell a story.”  Here’s what Part Six says about narration: “To be effective, the language of narration should be well-organized. To be clear, we should probably tell stories in time order—beginning with their setting and then describing events one after another as they happened. The best stories make a point, communicate a message, or “teach a lesson.” So that our listeners “get it,” we should be careful not to leave out any significant events. On the other hand, we shouldn’t include irrelevant details . . . . A story with too many words—or with a lot of repetit