A Giant's Party E-Book

Christine Munroe

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 14

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Rangard, the tallest giant of all, is loved by everyone , so they all show up when he throws a party. But this year's birthday-Christmas party is really special. Even for Rangard. Will he still be able to enjoy it?

Leseprobe

A Giant's Party

PrefaceA Giant's PartyCopyright

Preface

When I don't write as Christine Munroe, Yolanda King or Christine Brösenhuber I teach English, German, French and Italian as a private tutor.

I have to teach the usual grammar – over and over – but luckily, I have the freedom of not having to follow a set curriculum so I can take my time, repeat certain grammatical aspects regularly, read illustrated books and short texts, listen to audio recordings and, most importantly, play plenty of games.

As any fellow teacher will know, all of these latter ones aim at improving the students' grammar skills. Many of the games can be used in multiple ways.

There's one game in particular that I like to use and that can be played with one or many participants. It's a stack of drawings that depict fairy tale figures. I always shuffle them and turn them upside down, choose a topic, e.g. the simple past, and then we begin narrating a story.

It has to be coherent, using the grammatical topic previously chosen, in the order the fairy tale cards are turned over.

It's not easy but always hilarious.

I sometimes jot down notes and later turn these weird stories into writing, embellishing them a lot, though, and occasionally changing little things, like using a frog instead of a dwarf.

This is one of these fairy tales stories. Turning it into a Christmas story was a spur-of-the-moment decision, influenced by the season.

A Giant's Party

Rangard was a very well liked giant who lived on the top floor of an extremely tall skyscraper. His apartment was gigantic! And very sparsely furnished so he had more space.