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Learn English with this short story by British writer Roald Dahl. Intro transcript and story script available below.

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Introduction Transcript (story script available as a pdf below)

Hello folks, how are you doing?

Summer is over, everyone's going back to their jobs and their normal lives. Sun tans are fading fast. The days are getting shorter. The leaves are turning. It's back to reality.

I hope you had a good summer. As I said to you in June or July, my podcast uploading was quite inconsistent over the summer. I didn't manage to post as many episodes as normal. That's because I had quite a busy time, going away on hols to different places and also looking after our daughter who was not in day care, because day care was closed during August.

In fact, her day care still hasn't started again, so I'm being a stay at home Dad this week, looking after her during the day time. This means that it's a bit difficult to record and upload episodes of the podcast. The baby (and she's still a baby) tends to demand all your attention, whether it be playing, feeding, cleaning, changing, bathing or all manner of other things, it's hard to do anything else when I'm the only one looking after her. This week my wife has some important work related deadlines which she has to attend to, so I'm looking after the little one.

What this means is that I still can't get fully back into my podcast rhythm. That'll happen probably mid next week when day care starts again properly and I have time to work on episodes of both LEP and LEP Premium.

By the way, LEP Premium is going well. There are now about 14 episodes - including audio and video content, with PDFs. If you want to sign up, go to teacherluke.co.uk/premium The premium episodes are where I really focus on language, helping you to improve your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

I have lots of plans for new episodes coming up, but they all require some time and also silence in the background.

I wanted to upload something fairly quickly and simply in this episode, so I've decided to read you a short story written by Roald Dahl, who is one of the UK's favourite authors. This doesn't take much preparation from me, so it's pretty easy to do.

Roald Dahl is most famous for his children's stories - like The BFG, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, George's Marvellous Medicine, but also he wrote some books of short stories for adults. I grew up reading his children's books, but then also took an interest in the books of short stories too when I'd grown up a bit. So, I've always enjoyed Roald Dahl's work.

I'd like to recommend his books of short stories for you to read. If you're looking for something to read in English (and you should always have an English book on the go - it's vital) then these could be great.
Here are some reasons why Roald Dahl is so great for reading (for your English)

The stories are short, so it's less demanding and less intimidating. You can finish them. Yey!

They're very well written - descriptive language and just good plain English that is easy to read and modern in style

They're great little stories full of curiosities, mystery, strange things, funny things.

You could get any of Roald Dahl's books of short stories, but a good recommendation from me would be "The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1 & 2" by Roald Dahl. Should be available from all good bookstores, including Amazon.

So, I highly recommend that you check out his work. It could be great for your English. Roald Dahl's work is also available as audiobooks, which you could check out using Audible. Remember they still sponsor my podcast. If you use my link, you can sign up for a free 30 day trial which includes a free download of any audiobook you like.

www.audibletrial.com/teacherluke check it out. You could get a Roald Dahl book - and many of them are read by great British actors that you might know.

Now, in this episode I'm going to read out one of Dahl's short stories. This one always sticks in my mind. I read it when I was a teenager. One of the things that always stuck in my mind was the descriptive language - describing the car he drives and the people he meets. Those descriptions really stuck with me. It's one of the reasons I'm sure his stories are great for learning English.

It's quite simple. I'm going to read the story to you. You can check out the story by following the link on my website, or if you have a copy of his book you can read it with me. This one is called The Hitch Hiker and it appears in volume 2 of The Complete Short Stories.

A hitch hiker is someone who waits by the side of the road and hopes to get a lift from someone. They don't have a car or money for a bus or train, so they stick out their thumb and hope someone will stop and take them where they want to go.

I don't know if you've ever hitch hiked. I've done it a couple of times. It felt a little risky. These days I wouldn't do it probably. Feels a bit dangerous.

Anyway, here is the story called The Hitch Hiker. It's only a few pages long. There's a link on the page for this episode (below) which will allow you to read the story too.
Things I like about it / What to look out for

The various descriptions of the high performance car (very modern for when the story was written)

How it looks, the electric windows and sunroof, automatic radio aerial, the sounds of the engine, the responsiveness of the steering and brakes. He doesn't just drive at 70, he whispers along. He doesn't just slow down, he touches the brakes.

His descriptions of the hitch-hiker - comparing him to a rat

The descriptions of the appearance and manner of the police officer

The mystery surrounding the hitch hiker

The way the hitch hiker's "job" is described in rather exciting and glamourous ways

The little twist at the end of the story

That's it! Let's start reading.

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545. The Hitchhiker by Roald Dahl (Short Story)

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Learn English with this short story by British writer Roald Dahl. Intro transcript and story script available below. [DOWNLOAD] Hello folks, how are you doing? Summer is over, everyone's going back to their jobs and their normal lives. Sun tans are fading fast. The days are getting shorter. The leaves are turning.

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This video, funded by Linklaters' Learn for Work and featuring pupils from Holmleigh Primary School in Hackney, features an activity which is as much of a hit (geddit?) with advanced debaters as it is with young beginners.

The video is ideal either for use in teacher CPD, or as a starter / stimulus to show to pupils at the start of a lesson.

The video on this page streams from Vimeo, one of the web's most trusted providers. A few schools block Vimeo; if yours is one of them, use the backup video link below. If neither of these videos work for you, please get in touch.

Credits Workshop leader: Jack Gamble * Co-writer, director, camera and edit: Harold Raitt at SeeHearTeach.com * Sound recording: Julian Willson

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In this section you can find useful articles, webinars, blog posts, publications and teaching tips to help you develop in the professional practice of 'Using multilingual approaches'.

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Use personalisation of the students

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In the two previous posts in this series looking at personalization in the classroom, I focused on the individual learner and how teachers and materials can make the language and topics of the classroom relevant to him or her. However, personalization isn't just about making sentences using the words 'I, me and my'! A large part of our personal lives involves our relationship to the people around us - our family and friends, peers at school or colleagues at work. Finding out and talking about the lives of others in relation to our own life is also a key part of personalization in the classroom. In this post I'll outline three types of personalization activities which are based on the idea of learning about others and learning from others.
'Finding out' activities
We can ask students to say something personal about themselves with new language but real communication starts to happen in the classroom once students ask each other questions about their lives. The extract below from a course book demonstrates how this might work in a lesson.

[From Life Second Edition Pre-Intermediate, available 2018]

Having looked at the use of past tenses, Exercise 10 asks students to prepare questions to ask their partner either using the prompts given or they can create their own (personal) questions to ask. Next in 11, they take turns to interview each other using their questions and answering with authentic personal responses. Finally, working with a new partner in Exercise 12, they report what they discovered about the other person. This kind of three-part structure can help to practise a range of language structures and it also extends the basic idea of personalization beyond just talking about yourself into talking about the people around you.
'Making connections' activities
Finding out about another person is one thing but finding out what you have in common with them is something else. Making connections and finding 'commonalities' is something that is used a lot in any profession where the skill of networking is required (such as sales) but it's also a useful life skill in general; the idea being that in a conversation you share something personal about yourself and the other person responds and as a result you find things you have in common. Classroom activities that encourage this kind of conversation are particularly generative and intrinsically motivating. Here's an example of simple type of 'making connections' activity in which students talk about last weekend.

Work in pairs. Tell each other about your weekend and try to find things that you both did.

For example:

- have a meal with the rest of your family

- watch the same TV program

- stay in bed until the same time of day

- meet up with friends and go out somewhere

- do some exercise

Afterwards, report back to the class and say which things you both did.

The task requires students to make personal statements, ask each other questions, and it's driven by the need to find things they have in common.
'Show and tell' activities
This third type of activity asks students to share something more personal with the rest of the class. You ask students to bring an object (or song or poem etc) into class which means something special to them and they give a short presentation about it. There are some challenges associated with this type of 'show and tell' activity. Students can find presenting in English in front of their peers daunting at first. They are also presenting something which may have great personal meaning so this is what might be regarded as 'deeper personalization' ( see previous post for more on this). So introduce the task at a stage in the course where the class has had time to develop a team spirit with mutual respect for one another.

To help with this kind of activity, I recently developed some video materials in which different people present a personal object which is meaningful to them. Here is an extract from the materials showing a woman from Russia presenting a dress handed down from her mother.

[Video taken from Life Second Edition Elementary, available 2018]

Show your students this kind of video and identify the three-part structure of the presentation: (1) she introduces the dress (2) explains how it came to her (3) why it's important to her. She also uses past tenses as well useful phrases such as 'This is my...', 'It's very important to me because...' For homework, ask your students to choose their own object from the past and prepare a similar presentation. It's a great way to bring personalization into the classroom both in terms of students talking about themselves but also finding out more about the people around them.

We would love to hear from you. Let us know how any of these personalization activities go in your classroom.

Be sure to tune into John Hughes' webinar called Personalization in an Impersonal World on November 21st. Register here!

The second edition of John Hughes' best selling coursebook will be available in 2018. For more information on , please contact your local sales representative.

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Create word clouds based on reading or topics
http://www.wordle.net/

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wordle Is a website that combines vocabulary for all types of clouds in both Thai and Thai languages

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HOME - wordle Is a website that combines vocabulary for all types of clouds in both Thai and Thai languages

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Nice cartoons with audio support for kids
http://dinolingo.com/books/english-storybooks-for-kids/

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Online Language Learning Books, Audiobooks, Songs and Videos. Numbers Storybook, Animals Storybook, Body Parts Storybook, Clothes Storybook, Colors Storybook, Conversations 1

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Superb audio and video stories
http://www.storynory.com/

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A fascinating resourse for reading and listening for children of primary and secondary age www.storylineonline.net/

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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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This absorbing platform based on short films answers all educational needs
http://film-english.com/

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A webmix of useful online resources
http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/teacheronlinetoolkit

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The internet is a real treasure trove for the English teacher, but at the same time it can look like a maze. I have made a personal selection of useful online resources.

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A good visual aid for young adults
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1sIlfSTYoM