I got this story from Caluke van Hoften. It is originally a Spanish folk tale. I like the story for several reasons:
The game I am still very reluctant to draw. I am practicing a lot because I really do believe in this method. But I try to progress in small steps. It is not that I cannot draw at all, but I draw very slowly. And although the intention of drawing is that you slow down the telling, if you draw too slowly, the story looses its flow. And that is not good either. Hence I replace the things I find difficult to draw with a picture or a drawing (which I print and laminate) and everything else I draw. In this case I looked for drawings of the farmer, the professor and the train. To sufficiently slow down the story, I describe both persons while pointing out everything. That way, students will hear the words 'farmer' and 'professor' several times. I repeat the word 'train' by adding a few elements to the story:
Another good advice I got from Caluke: make sure you have some more space to draw the mountain. Draw the wagon on the right side of the whiteboard, so that you can draw the mountain on the left. After all, it is very important that the students understand the farmer's question!
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