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Pudong Campus: Storytelling Competition

December 15, 2021

SHSID Pudong Campus’ yearly Storytelling Competition has come to a successful end this week. The competition was held through November to December in each grades’ English classes.

During the competition, the storytellers not only need to tell the stories completely and fluently but also need to show their own thinking and understandings of the stories, while also performing them in different ways. Some storytellers won the audience’s praise through engaging non-verbal language, with others incorporating interesting background music and sound effects to their stories. Some storytellers chose to add the sounds of anxious footsteps, the crash of glass breaking, or the singing of “Hallelujah,” to the tune of a Christmas bell. These creative additions to their storytelling made their stories all the more interesting and exciting.

After the first round, each class welcomed the storytellers to present their stories. The storytellers who made it into the last round were chosen for their perfectly-written stories. The vivid scenes they described immersed the audience in the thrill, feeling as if they were inside their stories themselves. Following the conclusion of the final round, new “Super Storytellers” were born from the exciting and fierce competition. The whole competition ended on December 14th.

After the conclusion of the competition, it was then showing time for the Super Storytellers. They went to each grades’ classes to share the excitement of their stories around the campus. The storytellers from the second and third grades shared videos of their storytelling to each grade, while the fourth and fifth grades walked into different classrooms during the morning read-aloud time and performed their thrilling and wonderful stories for the lower grades.

Throughout the Storytelling Competition, the storytellers practiced and improved their English speaking skills. They also came to understand the important qualities that make a good narrator. As for the audience, it was a delightful experience to listen and share the joy contained in these splendid stories, with all learning how they can as well become a good storyteller.

(Written by Yan Deng, Haoruo Li, Lei Zhang, Lu Jia, Qingjia Yang Pictures by Pudong Campus Teachers Edited by Huang Shiyuan, Brie Polette)