War with Troy: The Story of Achilles

War with Troy: The Story of Achilles
This is really a resource for primary school teachers for use in the English curriculum. Yet it can be of great use to all teachers of English as a Foreign Language, as it set out to practise all of those skills with which we are so familiar: listening, speaking, reading, writing. It also includes that one that we are never so sure of: creativity.
You can buy the three CDs for £25.00. The teacher’s guide costs £29.50. This contains:
• episode-by-episode teaching notes
• story summaries, ideas for starting points and multiple suggestions for follow-up activities
• mapping to National Literacy Strategy, including storytelling, features of myths, presentation of characters, and oral and written storytelling
• mapping to the Speaking, Listening, Learning strategy, including ideas for listening, speaking, group discussion and drama
• advice on planning lessons around speaking and listening
• a full transcript of the storytellers' story
• photocopiable illustrations.
Similar materials for the “Return from Troy” are also available.
It is also well worth visiting the web sit and listening to the free materials and looking at sample teacher’s resources.
This is a wonderful story, beautifully retold by professional story-tellers, Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden.