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man sighted "UFO that looked like a ping pong ball"
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in April
It as re ting on four- legs and had a
strange design on it. Even stranger
ere the t 0 small humanlike figures
that tood be ide the Ship. After a fe
moments the sp ce people returned to
the Ship. Suddenly the ship shot up in­
to the ky and disappeared.
Do you bel eve that such a story
could be true? In just th last 30 years
there hay been hundred of reports of
unidentified flying f objects �UFOs).
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Do you like listening to stories? Maybe your parents or
grandpar nts read you bedtime stories hen you ere
young. Do you remember ho much you enjoyed being
read to? Did you ever thin it might be fun to read aloud to
someone else? If so, you may be ready to join the long
tradition of storytelling.
People have al ays loved listening to tories. In fact,
storytelling is older than boo s. People told stories long
t er ri ten do n. In many cou tries
storytelling as the main ay of passing do n the
culture's histo and knowledge. Some cultures had
specially trained storytellers. These people had to kno
by heart' all the important stories of the group.
St III - n Art
This kind of storytelling as educational, but it as fun
too. GoOd storytellers could make the stories very ex­
citing. Sometimes they acted ou the stories ith song
and dance. Gro n-ups as ell as children listened to .
these stories and enjoyed them .
Today many families atch TV or go to a movie. But.
before TV or movies as in ented, family members often
took turns reading to each ot ere In those days reading
aloud as thought of as an art. People ho ere good at i
took pride in their ability. Famous riters even t aveled
from place to place giving readings from their 0 n or s.
But today there do not seem to be enough storytellers to
go around.
You C n T I Good St
You could help change that. All you need is a story and
an udience. The story could be from a boo or out of your
o n head. The audienc could anyon -perhaps a
younger brother or sister.
To be a good storyteller, you have to dra .vour au­
dience into the story. This means that hether you are
reading aloud or telling a story from memory, you ha e to
give your ords life. You can't just say the ords in a dead
tone of voice. There are many ays of livening up a story.
You could give each character in the story a different
voice. You could spea faster in the more exciting parts of
a story (but not so fast that your audience can't under­
stand you!). You could do scary parts of tory in a eir'd,
hispery voice. You could involve your audience in the
story by as ing questions.
As you tell more and m e stories, yo 'II find yourself
tting better at it. You may ven find that, Ii e t
orytell r of old, you have r I gift fo telling tale .