讲故事学英语

1、 激发学习兴趣，活跃课堂气氛兴趣是学生积极认知事物和积极参与学习活动的一种心理倾向。小学生 对枯燥的英语学习缺乏兴趣。即使是学习成绩好的学生也往往满足于朗读课文和背诵课文的句型，满足于考试取得好成绩，真正把英语学习变成乐趣，主动积极去学的很少。在课堂上，故事表演是儿童最喜欢的活动，特别是中高年级的小学生，他们熟知很多有趣的童话故事，用英语去表演对他们来说是一件非常新鲜的事。有限的英语知识局限了他们，却使他们产生了学习英语的需要。表演成功的愉快体验会促使学生不断地去揣摩故事的内容，又会推动他们进一步去学习新的英语知识，以获得新的成功的体验。这样学英语变成了获得表演成功的手段，学习的过程更多地充满了一种探索的喜悦，学生真正成为了学习的主体。2、 形成健康人格，培养合作精神故事表演需要孩子动脑动口，耳听目视，手脚并用，穿插跳、唱、说等多种活动形式，非常符合孩子好动爱玩的生理心理特点。对于性格内向的学生，英语课上他们总是喜欢保持沉默，开口说英语比让他们说中文要困难得多，对老师提的问题也会由于心理紧张的原因而吞吞吐吐难以流畅回答，对英语学习自信心不足，长此以往就会产生自卑的心理。而故事表演所营造出来的轻松愉快的气氛也会缓解他们心中的紧张情绪，孩子们可以根据自己的英语水平选择相应的角色。在故事扮演中，他们可以随意地大声喊英语或小声说英语。这样的活动，有助于让那些心理有障碍的同学克服自卑的心理，对学生的健康人格形成起了潜移默化的作用。现在的小学生多为独生子女，他们往往以自我为中心，不擅于体验他人的感受。由于故事表演的形式基本上是以小组为单位，学生必须分工合作，在合作中他们能够逐步学会协商，尊重他人，不断培养合作精神，提高与他人交往的能力。

在英语学习的初级阶段 ,根据第一语言习得的相关理论及儿童心理特征的研究 ,讲故事有助于激发儿童的语言学习兴趣 ,并能使其处于积极而活跃的最佳学习状态。我分享既简单又短的英语故事，希望可以帮助大家!

Gordon was hungry. He opened the refrigerator. There must be something in here to eat, he thought. There was—a single hot dog.

He took it out of its package and put a small frying pan onto the stove’s gas burner. He turned on the heat. Then he poured a little bit of vegetable oil into the pan. He sliced the hot dog in half lengthwise. When the oil got hot, he put the two halves in the pan. About a minute later, heflipped each half over. After another minute, he took the hot dog out of the pan.

Gordon put two slices of bread into the toaster. This was tasty and healthy bread. The first ingredient listed was organic sprouted wheat. The first ingredient in ordinary bread is usually unbleached flour.

When the toast popped up, he put mustard, mayonnaise, and ketchup on one slice. Then he added two slices of onion. On top of the onions, he placed the hot dog. On top of the hot dog, he put a couple of slices of apple. Then he added some bits of hot green chile, and then put the top piece of toast onto the chile bits.

Ahh, what a sandwich, he thought, as he sat down to eat.

Jill answered the phone. It was Jack.

"Jill, will you marry me next week?"

"What?"

Jack repeated his question.

"Of course not," she replied. She wondered why he was asking her that question. They had already agreed that when people get married, they immediately start to take each other for granted. They don’t do the "little things" like opening the car door or holding hands. They get too comfortable. They treat their partner like an old shoe. And eventually, they get bored with each other and get divorced.

"We already agreed that we don’t want to get married because we don’t want to get divorced."

Jack agreed. But he argued that they were special. They were different from other couples. They loved each other too much to end up in a divorce.

"Yes, that may be true. But still, why next week? Why can’t we think about it for another year or two?"

"Because I had two dreams the last two nights. In both dreams, you left me for another man. In fact, you left me for two different men. I want to get married now so I don’t have these dreams anymore."

"Hmm. What did these men look like?"

Helen stepped outside her front door to see what the weather was like. It was sunny and warm. That was nice, because for the past two weeks it had been cold and rainy. It had been so cold that she had had to turn her heater on. She was lucky, because her heater worked and she could pay her heating bills.

Some people in Los Angeles were not so lucky. Unable to use their home heater, they placedcharcoal into a barbecue grill and lit it. The heat kept them warm, but the carbon monoxide killed them.

This happens almost every winter in Los Angeles. People shut all the windows tight to keep the cold out, then light the charcoal. Soon enough, the oxygen in their home is consumed by the open flames. The family suffocates to death.

Everyone knows that smoke detectors are required in Los Angeles. But many people don't know about, or don't think they need, carbon monoxide detectors. They're not expensive. A $25 investment can save a family from death.

People always think that nothing bad will happen to them; it always happens to "the other guy." So they forget to put fresh batteries into their smoke detectors annually, and they don't bother to buy carbon monoxide detectors.

Jennifer's ears were "talking" to her. They were making little sounds, like little bubbles bursting. A "bubble" was bursting almost every second. It was not painful, but annoying. She knew the cause.

While she was cleaning the whiteboard after her class ended last night, the fire alarm went off. Instead of leaving the building immediately, she walked around to see what the problem was. The blaring alarm sounded like the busy signal on a phone, but 1,000 times louder. The school seemed to be empty. Then she walked by one room, and saw about seven students inside.

Just then the night supervisor came by. She told everyone to leave immediately. The students were packing their hair-care equipment into their bags. The night supervisor waited impatiently. Finally, after almost five minutes, all the students and their teacher left the building. They apologized for being so slow.

The firemen never arrived. Instead, a school police officer showed up. He walked around the area with the supervisor. It was a false alarm. The officer used his key to finally turn off the alarm.

But it was too late for Jennifer. She had listened to the loud alarm for too long. She should have known better. Even as she drove home, her ears felt strange.

Louise and Neil had been dating for three years. She was 40, and he was 50. They wanted to get married and have two kids as soon as possible, but there was a problem. They disagreed on how they would raise their kids.

Because Louise had a high-paying job, Neil could stay home and raise the kids. He looked forward to that, because he felt that he would be a great dad. First, he would teach them how to read. Then he would teach them about life. His kids were not going to waste their time reading fairy tales and watching Sesame Street. They were going to learn practical stuff, like how to use Microsoft Office and how to get a four-year scholarship to Harvard. He wanted them to become business majors, because business is where the money is.

Louise had other plans. She wanted her kids to relax and enjoy life. She didn't want them to grow up too fast. She was the oldest child in a poor family, and her father had put her to work in the fields as soon as she turned six. Life had been hard for her. She didn't want it to be hard for her children.

Neil said not to worry. There was still plenty of time for him to figure out a way for the kids to have fun and still become happy millionaires.