What makes a good story? - 6 Minute English

Telling stories is a powerful way to connect and communicate with people - they help us make sense of the world. Neil and Georgina talk about storytelling and why we’ve been telling them to each other for millennia.
This week's question:
Which of the following well-known folk tales is a ‘defeating the monster’ story?
a) Beowulf?
b) Beauty and the Beast?
c) Goldilocks and the Three Bears?
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary
folk tales
stories that parents have told and passed on to their children over many years
universal
exist everywhere are related to everyone in the world
tap into
understand, connect to and express something such as people’s beliefs or attitudes
wish-fulfillment
achievement of things you really want and desire
ramble
talk in a confused way, often going off the subject or not making much sense
get to the point
start talking about what is most important and relevant
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What's your favourite story? Maybe it's this one: Alice in Wonderland: ruclips.net/p/PLcetZ6gSk96_Kh2b2K2O2uaI14lnp6w4h

[@englishwithmanpreet5346]

Folk tales
Universal
Tap into
Wish-fulfillment
Ramble
Get to the point

[@irina6377]

Thank you for a very interesting topic! I've found a lot of important and necessary new phrases and words, such as wish-fulfillment, tap into the ideas, to go off, rambling, to ramble, comprehensibility, incomprehensibility, frustrated, hostile, reinforce, satisfy, beast, transcend, floorboard, creek, wink. I'll put them in my vocabulary list.

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Nice lesson, thanks for getting to the point immediately! :)

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Amazing video! My favourite author is Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle🇬🇧! Since I was a kid Sherlock Holmes fascinated me a lot, and my preferred story of him is The Hound of Baskerville.

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Yes, you're right. Sherlock holmes is an amazing story and also conan Doyle. I really like the "Hound of Baskerville" too.

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Amazing! Please bring more videos on storytelling!!

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How about these stories which you can listen to with your children? ruclips.net/p/PLcetZ6gSk96-OLXPnsmtP2O1SZwaSW7Ev

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My little sister adore Joe and Bella stories which are being published
If she hears it's music she runs and grabs my phone, jumping for joy saying a new story 😀

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Thank u ,and about the mirrors ,my grandma said that we must not look at mirrors at night too, they did not know how to explain it, but it doesn't mean that it's not true ,there is things that we don't know yet ,like the spirits and the energies world is changing and fengshwi is an ancient culure

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Informative , many thanks 🥳

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Glad it was helpful!

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I cannot open the link, pls tell me how can I get the transcript ?

[@bbclearningenglish]

Try the download link on this webpage www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/6-minute-english/ep-210121

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What makes a good story?
For a gal: details...
For a guy: get to the point!
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Check out our audio drama series! We do dramatic readings of some classic works of literature!

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