Languages ← Storyline Scotland

How We Became Part of the Story

Jul

2015

We happened to learn about Storyline as an approach to teaching at a Comenius conference in November 2012. Thus knowing of the possibility to apply for an Erasmus+ grant we did so. Since our school is focusing on teaching heterogeneous classes including children with special needs who need assistance this method seemed to be the ...

Gravesend Course 3 | Oct 2015 | Let’s design a Storyline around the Virginia Indian “Pocahontas”

Jan

2015

17th – 24th October 2015 Gravesend, Kent, England During the course we will not only visit her memorial in Saint George’s church, Gravesend but we will have the opportunity to learn more about Pocahontas  through a storyteller and a picture book aiming at young learners (language level A1/A2)  through an historian who will ...

Glasgow Course 2 | Aug 2015 | Storyline working towards inclusion

Jan

2015

1st – 8th of August 2015 | Let’s get to know how to use a Storyline especially aiming at the inclusion of the weak learners When we talk about inclusive education in language teaching following buzz words come up: differentiation – cooperative learning – individualisation – supporting the individual learning process We believe that all ...

Glasgow Course 1 | Aug 2015 | Storyline meets Storytelling

Jan

2015

25th of July – 1st of August 2015 | Let’s get to know how to work with a book based Storyline aimed at learners of English trying to reach the language level A1-B1. BOOK-BASED STORYLINES have proven a popular choice for teachers who wish to find a motivating context which enables their students to develop ...

Erasmus+ Courses 2014

Feb

2014

New courses Erasmus+ for this summer and autumn. If you are interested to come, please help your school to design a concept for qualification and fill in the application forms for the funding. (about 95%-98% of all costs including the transport) More information: Erasmus1 Erasmus2

Pupils relive the life of drovers

Feb

2014

A class of sixteen Rockfield Primary School pupils experienced the life of the ancient drovers of Argyll when they drove a small herd of Highland cattle, cooked bannocks over an open fire, sang traditional songs and shared in the storytelling tradition. This experience was delivered completely in Gaelic. The trip was the pinnacle of the ...

New Storyline Book

Oct

2013

Sharon Ahlquist of Kristianstad University, Sweden, who has successfully completed her PhD studies has used the evidence from that to produce this excellent book which will be of great interest to all Storyliners whether or not they are teaching a second language. ISBN:9789144081632

Journal Article

Nov

2012

´Storyline: a task-based approach for the young learner classroom´ has been published by English Language Teaching Journal. The article is based on Sharon’s thesis in which she investigated the development of Swedish pupils’ communicative skills in English when they took part in Storyline, Our Sustainable Street. The photos shown here are taken from that study ...

Teaching EFL using Storyline, Berlin

Sep

2012

Katrin Harder & Steve Bell At the invitation of Katrin Harder, an English teacher in Werbellinsee-Grundschule, Steve Bell presented a one-day workshop course for 65 English teachers working in primary and secondary schools in Berlin. The topic chosen was the Open Market and the participants produced the most amazing models of a variety of stalls ...

English in the Primary School

May

2012

A one-day Conference organised by IQSH Kiel A rich and varied programme was designed by Gisela Ehlers of IQSH Kiel for this one day conference in Bürgerhaus Kronshagen on the Teaching of English. 260 teachers of English from primary schools in Schleswig Holstein participated. Gisela Ehlers will retire this summer and the first speakers, Dr ...