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Stories to listen to and learn to read out loud
Stories. Gertrude Talks Back, by Margaret Atwood
Stories. Asking Questions in Church, by michelle
Stories. How Did I Get Away with Killing …?, by Alice Walker
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Stories. Cat in the Rain, by Ernest Hemingway
Stories. House of Light & Shadow, by Nicholas Gage
In February 2008, CPG, a fifth year student studying at EOI Goya, gave me a little present – The New York Times Magazine, the 15th of Jan issue, 2006, which is where I found this story. I didn’t know the author, and it’s been a pleasure reading it. I like the story because it includes childhood memories, dreams, a house in an open landscape, which I imagine very beautiful because it’s in Greece, and it also includes thoughts and feelings you get throughout your life, as you grow older. I hope this inspires you to write about your own childhood memories, so you can practice using the past tenses, including the modals! You could just write short 150-word pieces, and send them in for publication! (Check out the TP section Your Stuff!)
So, here it goes. Enjoy! And… Read the story!
Stories. There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella, by Fernando Sorrentino
Read the story (for intermediate students, there is an abridged version – by me!).More: Fernando Sorrentino’s website. We found this story at this site: East of Web.
Listen to this story, as it was translated by Clark M. Zlotchew into English.
Stories. A Telephone Call, by Dorothy Parker
Read the story and learn about how to exploit literature to keep learning the language!
Stories. The Debutante, by Leonora Carrington
Half of this audio is me talking about the writer Leonora Carrington first, a Surrealist artist (painter and writer, trilingual! She does/did that in English, French and Spanish!) and then comes her story “The Debutante,” so you can listen to it in two 5-minute sessions!
More on Leonora Carrington at Talking People (Literature).
Stories. A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud, by Carson McCullers
A story which is hard to read, especially if you want to teach students to pronounce the endings and the consonant clusters!!! 🙂
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Stories. Ada, by Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein, a vital explorer of life and art, tried to write like Cezanne painted.
It’s hard to explain.
Ada is a story to her lifelong loved one.
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Stories. Dishwashers, by michelle
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Stories. Coyote Kills a Giant, by the Navajo People
Welcome to the TP Podcast! Today, a Coyote story, by the Navajo/Diné Nation.
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Stories. A Perfect Day for Bananafish, by JD Salinger
If you don’t know J.D. Salinger, listen to this story.
It’s a good way to start – it records a key moment in his life and to understand his work. If you already know him, and enjoy his literature, you’ll love this story. It’s lifelike – daily, undaily, warm and softly funny, very sweet, endlessly sad and tragic.
Check out the Talking People webpage for Salinger.