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Today's article is titled Storyte. Okay, welcome back to Effortless English.

Today's article is titled Storytelling.

And it talks a little bit about one of the techniques

I use both in my teaching in classes here in San Francisco and also for the Effortless English

Club for members.

Okay let's get started. Storytelling. TPRS. Teaching Proficiency through reading and storytelling.

Suppose you want to remember a list of words. You will more readily remember the words if you make a sentence or sentences connecting

the words in the form of a short story. You would remember it even better if the story was

easy to visualize, and best of all if you could

picture a story that was dramatic or vulgar or comic or in some way involved your emotions.

A story is in fact a good memonic,

and the more elaborate the story, the better.

A story links words to be remembered

and it causes you to build up scenes that have visual,

oral, and sensory associations for you.

Colin Rose 1985. While Effortless English is simple, it is also, in fact, designed according to research

proven methods. The major emphasis of the Effortless English approach is to help students acquire English thoroughly and effectively.

One way to do this is with many stories.

At first glance, the many stories may seem silly.

They're usually kind of foolish and are quite simple.

Another thing that may seem strange is that I ask a lot of questions as I retell the

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