Storytelling (Speaking Skill)

Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, often with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and instilling moral values. Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters and narrative point of view. The term 'storytelling' is used in a narrow sense to refer specifically to oral storytelling and also in a looser sense to refer to techniques used in other media to unfold or disclose the narrative of a story.

look at the short example of the storytelling below:

The Ant and the Dove

One hot day, an ant was searching for some water. After walking around for some time, she came to a spring. To reach the spring, she had to climb up a blade of grass. While making her way up, she slipped and fell into the water.

She could have drowned if a dove up a nearby tree had not seen her. Seeing that the ant was in trouble, the dove quickly plucked off a leaf and dropped it into the water near the struggling ant. The ant moved towards the leaf and climbed up there. Soon it carried her safely to dry ground. Just at that time, a hunter nearby was throwing out his net towards the dove, hoping to trap it.

Guessing what he was about to do, the ant quickly bit him on the heel. Feeling the pain, the hunter dropped his net. The dove was quick to fly away to safety.

Storytelling can seem like a lofty, magical topic, but it’s actually one of the simplest, oldest ways to promote anything. You may find you even like it.

Here are seven storytelling techniques:

1. Have an Enemy and a Hero

Stories need a good guy and a bad guy – also called a hero and an enemy. The enemy can be a thing, like a desert or “the system” or even a fear within the hero. The arc of the story is how the hero beats the enemy.

Questions to ask yourself about this might include: What’s the core enemy of my customers or clients? Is it danger? Wasted money? Unfulfilled dreams? Bad hair?

2. Use Conflict

Conflict is how the friction between the enemy and hero manifests. Maybe it shows up as the hero deciding to cross the desert, or when you, the business owner, decided to figure out how to defeat a problem. Conflict also describes the obstacles you encountered on your way to success, whether they were problems with your bank or with a tornado. If the hero has no struggle, then it’s a lame story.

3. Omit any Irrelevant Detail

Omit any detail that doesn’t move the story forward or develop the characters. This is about keeping the readers’ attention. If they don’t need to know about your red bicycle to understand the arc of your story, don’t tell them about the bicycle. If they don’t need to know what kind of awesome, high-tech sneakers you used to cross the desert, don’t tell them about the sneakers.

4. Tell the Story Like You Talk

This one’s pretty simple. Corporate-speak ruins stories. Talk like you would normally talk. If you sound a little too corporate to pass as an average person, hire a storyteller.

Visual stories are powerful vehicles to convey a message. Add visual elements to your business storytelling to make it more convincing.

5. Make It Visual

There’s a reason children’s storybooks are mostly pictures, and that so many of the greatest stories ever told have been made into movies. Images bring a story to life. You can tell a story just by standing up and talking, but it had better be one heart-clutcher of a story. And even then, added images will make it more powerful.

6. Make It Personal & Easy to Relate To

To immediately borrow from the last point: Use images of what actually happened, or where it happened. Use images of the real people in the story, not stock photo models.

And again, talk like you talk. Show your personality. Reveal a bit of your weaknesses and your fears. Everybody else has those weaknesses and fears, too. This leverages a subtle power of storytelling: When we tell our own story, often we are telling other people’s story too. Those people are your ideal audience, and your ideal customers or clients.

7. Add Surprise

A story with no surprises is boring. You knew this already (because you’re already a storyteller, remember?), but it bears repeating. Whether it’s a good surprise or a bad surprise, every good story has at least one surprise. This is an essential to a story as conflict.

1. Make a group (1 group = 5 persons)

2. Make a short story for each group

3. One of member of the group have to tell the story in front of another groups.

DARE TO FAIL

Once upon a time, in a poor village there was an elementary school. Just a few students studied there, because most of the children helped their parents to earn living for their lives.

One day, the one and the only teacher in the school gave a writing lesson. After the teacher explained how to make a story, the teacher gave a home work. “Students, our homework today is making a story about your dream. Tomorrow, the result of your home work will be read in front of the class one by one”.

Next day, her students read their own homework in front of the class. Most of them want to be a teacher, doctor, or farmer. The teacher always nodded in agreement. Then, it was the turn of the youngest age student in the class. His clothes were patched, his body was small and thin, but his voice was very loud. “When I grow up, I want to have a big white house near the beach, and then I won’t let my parents collect litters again. I will live happily with my family and make my parents proud of me”.

After listen the loud voice of the young student, the classes laughed. “Hahaha… Hey dreamer! Wake up from your nap!” said the teacher. “Hey, the story which you wrote is not a dream, that’s just a fantasy. That can’t become a reality!”. “Teacher, it’s not a fantasy, but it can become reality!”. “Hey son, you live in poor village, your family also poor too. How can you make your dream become reality? Now you must write another logical dream”. “Teacher, this is my real dream, nothing else!” “Please bring your new story tomorrow. If you don’t do it, you will get the smallest point in this class”. Next day, the young student didn’t bring his work, so he got the smallest point in his class.

Twenty years later, the teacher still taught in poor village. One day, she invited her students to study tour in a nice town. They went to the most popular beach in that town. There, they saw a big white house like a palace. “Oh, the man who built that house must be very great man. Its first time I look nice place like that”, said the teacher slowly. Suddenly, she heard a loud voice from her behind. “Not a great man who built that house, just a naughty boy who dare to fantasy. Surely, the greater is the teacher who taught that naughty boy”. The teacher turn over her body and she got a man smile with her. He was her student who got the smallest point of writing task about dream. The teacher was tears with a bit shy and apologized for twenty years before that she ever laughed his dream. Her student just smile and asked his teacher and all her students to come to his house.

1. Find the main idea
2. Identify the conflict in the story

The first, each group should read the material correctly.

The second, each group has to googling the material .

The last , submit your tasks to my email mjuhri_nasa@yahoo.com before the sun rises.

the students have to explain again about the material but befor doing that the student have to make some example of the storytelling.

It recognises the wealth of personal and educational experience that can be brought together from stories of children, families, teachers and professional storytellers.

Pronounciation A = excellent

Gesture  B = good

Irammar B = good

Intonation A = Excellent