A vivid experience of 'active' language:

Structure of narrative: the need for planning and plotting stories;
Linguistic devices to enhance engagement - humour, suspence, repetition;
Historical facets of tales in our culture;
Elements of everyday life embedded in great tales;
Distinction between 'folk-life' and 'great' events.

Workshop activities:

Embellishment of stories using historical information
D rawing listeners into the historical mileu
Creating written sources from our own oral work

Making tales out of the news - becoming modern bards

Stories:

Gawain and the Green Knight

Floris et Blanchefleur

Tales from Chaucer

Stories from the Continent