Stories Alive in Gaza Now

Group work

Telling the story with pictures

Telling the story with pictures

Hands up badges for great work

We’ve already shared some of the incredible work with drama that has been happening recently in Gaza. And there are also other teachers doing inspirational English language sessions for children right now - despite the diabolical conditions.

They do it because education, and particularly English language education, has always been hugely valued by the people of Gaza. Don’t let the many detractors around the world convince you otherwise!

I wrote the British Council Palestine publication - Stories Alive because I wanted to create something that could draw on the motivating and memorable value of stories, whilst at the same time activating areas of grammar and vocabulary from the Palestinian English curriculum.

I’m proud of the fact that it’s probably been used more than anything else I’ve ever written, and I’m especially proud of the great work that Ashraf is doing with it now by providing a makeshift school for local children in his own home.

Here are just a few of the activities conducted by Ashraf after telling the story of ‘Jackal and crow’ from the Stories Alive materials.

unjumbling jumbled sentences

Reordering the sentences from the story

Retrieving key sentences from the story by using first letter prompts.

listening to the model of the chant

Doing the chant

Retelling the story