Stories Struga

                                                                                                               We have a new course for 2025

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                                                                               Join us for a week 10th - 17th August 2025, with Fiona Mauchline in Struga.

                   A course for sharing and developing language and language teaching techniques, based around and focusing on stories and storytelling.

                                                                                                           Hotel Solferino, Struga ,North Macedonia

                                                                                                          £525 including meals and accommodation

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Struga is a resort on the beautiful Lake Ohrid, the deepest in the Balkans, which is ringed by mountains and is shared between North Macedonia which has 60% of the shoreline and Albania which has the rest.

The history of Ohrid goes back many centuries, with an array of ornate monasteries that put the town on the UNESCO world heritage list.

Frequent minibuses connect it with Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia and worth a visit. The airport in Ohrid town itself has summer flights from many cities across Europe.

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Who is it for?

This course is for teachers of English who are looking for innovative, imaginative, memorable and interactive ideas and techniques for their classroom.

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Course summary

A course in language teaching ideas and techniques, focusing particularly on sharing, interaction, collaboration, creativity, student-led and learner-centred techniques, and, above all, storytelling.

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Day 1

The importance of stories:

Where we find stories

The stories we tell

 Reading or writing?

The role in language teaching

 Third hour: Story share: The Teacher’s Tale

Day 2

Stories of the place

The history of a place

Storifying your home/town

Setting the setting

Sensorial elements for stories

Third hour: Story share: A Story of Streets

Day 3

Own stories: Everyone is special

The whole truth: connections (water, place, people)

Embroidering

Sharing as performance

Words into other mouths (short script or micro)

Third hour: Story share: Water in Words

Day 4

Imagination and tradition

The lore of the land

Poetry

Musical stories

Creative stories

Third hour: Story share: Are you sitting comfortably?

Day 5

The stuff of stories

Telling stories with image, objects, film, art…..

Creating the week’s storybook’

Third hour: Story share: Stories of Struga

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