StoryBits - Storytelling Cards

StoryBits is an extraordinary teaching aid designed for creative teachers who seek out practical and inspiring language activities for their teenage and adult students. The set contains 54 colourful cards featuring 8 relatable characters in a number of everyday situations. It is a simple, yet universal tool which requires minimum preparation from the teacher. You can use the cards to practise speaking and writing in any language, at any level of language competence.

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What are the characters talking about?

StoryBits Hints - simple ideas for your language classroom

Let your students brainstorm appearance and personality traits of a character before writing a descriptive essay.

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Class Activity

Class Activities

Simple Ideas

StoryBits Hints - simple ideas for your language classroom

Try asking learners about their weekend in a different way. Use pictures.

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Mind Maps

Mind Map

StoryBits Hints - simple ideas for your language classroom

Involve students in the process of drawing a mind map of objects and concepts they can see in the picture.

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Fortune Teller Game

Student Writing

I Win

ESL Fortuneteller Game

Fortunetelling game for language class. Grammar: expressing the future

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Present Perfect Sentences

Present Perfect

Never Have I Ever

StoryBits Hints - simple ideas for your language classroom

Use StoryBits cards or pictures to elicit Present Perfect sentences from your students

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Grammar

Vocabulary

StoryBits Hints - simple ideas for your language classroom

Use a picture to activate vocabulary and grammar relevant to your lesson even before revealing the topic

Vocabulary Challenge

Small Groups

StoryBits Hints - simple ideas for your language classroom

Who can write down the most vocabulary relevant to the picture?

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StoryBits Comic - Write-on Wipe-off Comic Cards | eBay

Thanks to the dry wipe surface the StoryBits Comic cards can be reused in a variety of lessons.

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Encourage your students to build stories around their own selection of cards or use single cards as prompts for discussing a range of topics tailored to the specific needs and interests of adult learners.

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