Telling a good story is an art form. Almost any story can be interesting if you take it beyond its basic elements: time, place, and characters involved. Learning how to tell a good story will not only help you in social conversations but also in a job interview setting or even an IELTS Speaking task. Good conversation skills show off your level of fluency and will impress your interviewer. In social settings, people are attracted to and enjoy being around interesting, dynamic speakers. To help you develop your storytelling skills, I have laid out my method based on years of experience as an actor and storyteller. So watch the video to learn how to tell a story like a n engaging, fluent English speaker.
thank you for tell us the way make the story become more interesting, but in my opinion you should talk shorter and more vivid
nguyen van long
this really helps, thanks
Lammy
thank you a lot!!
Youssef haddouda
I am the third one
angry
90 thanks Benjamin. nice lesson!
Brahmanand Mandol
I am the fourth one. Good lesson. Thanks!
drabkov
This video is very succesful for English but we are not enough :/
Adreno
Thanks Benjamin!!
knopfler86
got 70 thanks a lot
thakurlaxmi35
thanks a bunch Benjamin, carry on
Zahra
Thank you Benjamin
Kefo
A great lesson, Benjamin! Thank you a lot
Bra1n
it was pretty useful thank you Mr.Benjamin
Nour-kad
Congratulations. Good tips. Grade: 90
ScanRio
Really thanks a lot
Aboodpetra
Thanks, I’m 60
Gil90
I scored 80, thanks
Prajwal1
Thank you so much, I was searching and finally found the trainer which is expected.
abduljalilwafa
Thank you so much!!! Great video!
mahfff
Excellent!
I love English language
Babasemilore
good lecture! thank you Benjamin ! the example cited in your lecture could have been more interesting.
venona
thank u
Ahmedkurto
Thank you.
Chai
Thank u
Mohammad Mofazzal Hossain
Got 90, not too bad, thank you so much Mr. Ben
radite
it is quite useful
davidcalderonbiesterfeldt
Good question
Philip10
I got 90. Thanks for this vedio
atik091
I got 80 . Thanks for that video
fatih3312
I got 90. Nice lesson.
nicaury.m
The lesson was useful thank you Mr. Benjamin.
Qwoboat
Thank you Benjamin!
Rungof
Thank you so much
Dlzar1378
thank you
Samson12
i can’t read any of the video, why
zounian
10/10 Thank you, Benjamin. This lesson was really useful
Prokrastinator
Well said
Gbca2019
that was cool lesson!
AsudeUysal
Thanks!
Alfoalem A. Abiye
70/100 not bad .
xtremedranzer
absolutely superb video… im not exactly a good story teller and i feel the need to improve my skillls
cmkakangoma
thankyou
SAM GLAISA
really good!
MariaFads
You are a great story teller i must say.its splendid…i was not able to move my eyes without going with your delivering flow sir…thanks for your wonderful guidelines…. <3
Roza28
Thanks Mr Benjamin, i got 80
Oyebee
i got 80 WELL DONE
baladiRACHID
Very nice. I enjoyed myself
waliwalizada
i don’t put much attention i scored 50 :( i will take it again… thanks
sepich16
hello
thank you for lessons..
and i want to make practice with another friends, if you interested adding my number.
+905458281039
dewamade
hi dewamde
I’m also want to make my practice in English with someone,,please here it’s my number or whatsup:
+213791850183
Ivan lyo
Thanks . I got 90.
Menety
Amazing!Thank you!
Ju Lob
i liked your accent teacher and thank you so much for the amazing teaching
waleediron
10 of 10! Now I’m professional storyteller;)
Vasyl Smalii
Now I’ll tell you a little tale. Once, couple of years ago, I visited a tourists basecamp in mountain region called Bayka. It was a peaceful and really lovely place somewhere in Carpathians. At first day of staying I was relaxing outside after long trip from my home city to West Ukraine. The sky was so unbelievable and birds singed so goodly that I felt myself like on heavens. And then suddenly cute white kitten appeared and started to come closer to me. “Oh my God, what a beautiful creature!” – I told to myself. As it approached I couldn’t hesitate to caress this little piece of living snow. I started to pet it, kitten began to purr and nothing could be wrong. But then suddenly unexpected was happened! The kitten twisted around of itself like a snake and stubbed fangs in my wrist! I immediately pulled back my hand and have seen good flow of a blood out of my wrist. “What the hell???” I asked myself. I had strange feelings because I didn’t feel pain or something. The only feeling I had was fear. Cold sweat appeared on my back. I remembered scary but truly stories about people who took care on kittens and died in cause of rabies disease! “Rabies!” was my first thought. You really can’t imagine how I was scared at this moment. “Will I die?” was my second thought. Then I’ve told to myself: “Keep calm, I need to do everything I can to survive!” I immediately started to clean my wound with a medical napkin. I knew very well that I extremely need to kill as much potential rabies virions as possible. I cleaned my wound as much as I can with soap and water for 20 min and after this there wasn’t any relax on this journey. 10 days I was in Carpathians, 10 days I investigated Internet for any information about rabies. I’ve found that wrist is one of the fastest gates for rabies in cause of multiple nerves surrounded the flesh. After being involved in tissues, rabies starts to looking for nerves cells and since it found nerve, virions starts to replicate themselves and spread by the nerves line to brain with the average speed 3 mm per hour. After reaching brain cells by the rabies, no living warmblood form of life has any chance to survive unless it was pre-vaccinated. Kitten was stray animal and nobody could tell anything about it. In my case immediate post vaccination was totally recommended. I’ve started to think how much time I need to take medical care in time. I thought that I had about 15 days in the best case. After arriving at home I felt myself sick. I had sore throat, fever and I was totally depressed. But I immediately asked for help in local hospital. For my surprise I had to even insist for medical help. I was hospitalized for 3 days in the department of traumatology. Doctor told me that I could literally have died in this 13 days. That was really terrifying. I received full course of anti-rabies vaccination. First two days was most difficult. I felt strange fear for no reason. I read this fear appears in aggression type of rabies. “I want to survive” – was my only thought. I accounted every day of my life, tried to do everything to help my organism to beat this disease. And then after receiving full course of vaccine doctor has told me: “Well, that’s ok. Be careful next time and avoid close contact with any mammal animal especially wild one”. That gave me a little hope. My stress passed, as the days went by. Now, after one year I almost forgot about this. But several days ago I received news about death of young woman in Norway due to rabies. It is the first rabies-related death in Norway for more than 200 years. Birgitte Kalestad had caressed a stray puppy on her journey in Philippines. Only a little scratch on the hand was the case of 24 year old woman death. Now I have several feelings. I’m really sorry for all human and animal victims of terrifying rabies disease and I’m happy to be alive. Maybe I’m alive because of my precautions and medical help maybe because kitten hadn’t rabies in its saliva. But the things I know now: deadly danger could be anywhere, we need to be careful with our life, we have always to think ahead, and we need to know what to do if fatal mistake happens. Be careful and healthy my dear readers!
Vasyl Smalii
Wow! That was a gripping story.
engVid Moderator
Thanks :)
Vasyl Smalii
I got 80!!! Thank you for the quiz. Thankz Mr. Benjamin.
nigelzellsrobles
uh oh…. i got 60 … i want to make good scoe. and thanks Mr. benjamin
novitassss
Thank you so much Benjamin, i really like your videos but can you explain the meaning of clever clogs, please?
tuta
It is quite interesting to now how to get the people attention when a story is told. Actually it is an exercise to improve the idiom. Great!
marcurty
this video was useful thanks very much and carry on to make kind of those video who help us to improve our English speaking.
LounesMath
hello benjamin thank for all lessons, there are so helpful
can you cover the MEXT scholarship’s english exam?
no0x
Thank you so much Benjamin!
Spes
It was very good.Thank you so much Benjamin.
Mbuta51
Thank you
Nebyu nigatu
Wow, well done guys, you’re getting high scores, I had experienced bad experiences with scores(/studying)… Let me tell you a short tale.
I never am the best in English, I am always the dumbest in top set. I always feel like I am in a maze of confusion. Fear and failure always makes me dread going to class. Drowning in confusion, I always wish that I could achieve my dream of being a good story writer. But something was stopping my dream; my hands weren’t human’s hand, but rather it was an octopus’s. So how am I still in set 1? Well, in my school set 1 is the only class in in school- there are no other classes! But how can I ever pass my GCSE’s? How do I achieve my top score? Well, like a friend once said, “who’s this useful to?”
My grade was useful to impressing a mermaid with a power to send me back into the ocean… You see I wasn’t your everyday human, but rather a half-octopus one…
What about you? Do you have a bad experience with studying?
dreamingree
Hey anyone reading this (thx if you do!) could you give me some advice on how to improve? Thx!
dreamingree
Way to go!
simoncells
1o/1o
best regards,Benjamin
Greetings from Kazakhstan o8 Dec2o21:)
Jannyl
It was a good experience
Maira Malik
A lovely lesson on how to tell an interesting story… or make a boring story interesting.
Thank You Very Much!
Nahom Zelalem
I do really enjoy your lessons, They are not only practical on a day to day English language practice but in a day life context with many advices to improve our social skills. Thank you very much for that!
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77 COMMENTS
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Got 60 :”( .Nice lesson . Thanks :) <3
thank you for tell us the way make the story become more interesting, but in my opinion you should talk shorter and more vivid
this really helps, thanks
thank you a lot!!
I am the third one
90 thanks Benjamin. nice lesson!
I am the fourth one. Good lesson. Thanks!
This video is very succesful for English but we are not enough :/
Thanks Benjamin!!
got 70 thanks a lot
thanks a bunch Benjamin, carry on
Thank you Benjamin
A great lesson, Benjamin! Thank you a lot
it was pretty useful thank you Mr.Benjamin
Congratulations. Good tips. Grade: 90
Really thanks a lot
Thanks, I’m 60
I scored 80, thanks
Thank you so much, I was searching and finally found the trainer which is expected.
Thank you so much!!! Great video!
Excellent!
I love English language
good lecture! thank you Benjamin ! the example cited in your lecture could have been more interesting.
thank u
Thank you.
Thank u
Got 90, not too bad, thank you so much Mr. Ben
it is quite useful
Good question
I got 90. Thanks for this vedio
I got 80 . Thanks for that video
I got 90. Nice lesson.
The lesson was useful thank you Mr. Benjamin.
Thank you Benjamin!
Thank you so much
thank you
i can’t read any of the video, why
10/10 Thank you, Benjamin. This lesson was really useful
Well said
that was cool lesson!
Thanks!
70/100 not bad .
absolutely superb video… im not exactly a good story teller and i feel the need to improve my skillls
thankyou
really good!
You are a great story teller i must say.its splendid…i was not able to move my eyes without going with your delivering flow sir…thanks for your wonderful guidelines…. <3
Thanks Mr Benjamin, i got 80
i got 80 WELL DONE
Very nice. I enjoyed myself
i don’t put much attention i scored 50 :( i will take it again… thanks
hello
thank you for lessons..
and i want to make practice with another friends, if you interested adding my number.
+905458281039
hi dewamde
I’m also want to make my practice in English with someone,,please here it’s my number or whatsup:
+213791850183
Thanks . I got 90.
Amazing!Thank you!
i liked your accent teacher and thank you so much for the amazing teaching
10 of 10! Now I’m professional storyteller;)
Now I’ll tell you a little tale. Once, couple of years ago, I visited a tourists basecamp in mountain region called Bayka. It was a peaceful and really lovely place somewhere in Carpathians. At first day of staying I was relaxing outside after long trip from my home city to West Ukraine. The sky was so unbelievable and birds singed so goodly that I felt myself like on heavens. And then suddenly cute white kitten appeared and started to come closer to me. “Oh my God, what a beautiful creature!” – I told to myself. As it approached I couldn’t hesitate to caress this little piece of living snow. I started to pet it, kitten began to purr and nothing could be wrong. But then suddenly unexpected was happened! The kitten twisted around of itself like a snake and stubbed fangs in my wrist! I immediately pulled back my hand and have seen good flow of a blood out of my wrist. “What the hell???” I asked myself. I had strange feelings because I didn’t feel pain or something. The only feeling I had was fear. Cold sweat appeared on my back. I remembered scary but truly stories about people who took care on kittens and died in cause of rabies disease! “Rabies!” was my first thought. You really can’t imagine how I was scared at this moment. “Will I die?” was my second thought. Then I’ve told to myself: “Keep calm, I need to do everything I can to survive!” I immediately started to clean my wound with a medical napkin. I knew very well that I extremely need to kill as much potential rabies virions as possible. I cleaned my wound as much as I can with soap and water for 20 min and after this there wasn’t any relax on this journey. 10 days I was in Carpathians, 10 days I investigated Internet for any information about rabies. I’ve found that wrist is one of the fastest gates for rabies in cause of multiple nerves surrounded the flesh. After being involved in tissues, rabies starts to looking for nerves cells and since it found nerve, virions starts to replicate themselves and spread by the nerves line to brain with the average speed 3 mm per hour. After reaching brain cells by the rabies, no living warmblood form of life has any chance to survive unless it was pre-vaccinated. Kitten was stray animal and nobody could tell anything about it. In my case immediate post vaccination was totally recommended. I’ve started to think how much time I need to take medical care in time. I thought that I had about 15 days in the best case. After arriving at home I felt myself sick. I had sore throat, fever and I was totally depressed. But I immediately asked for help in local hospital. For my surprise I had to even insist for medical help. I was hospitalized for 3 days in the department of traumatology. Doctor told me that I could literally have died in this 13 days. That was really terrifying. I received full course of anti-rabies vaccination. First two days was most difficult. I felt strange fear for no reason. I read this fear appears in aggression type of rabies. “I want to survive” – was my only thought. I accounted every day of my life, tried to do everything to help my organism to beat this disease. And then after receiving full course of vaccine doctor has told me: “Well, that’s ok. Be careful next time and avoid close contact with any mammal animal especially wild one”. That gave me a little hope. My stress passed, as the days went by. Now, after one year I almost forgot about this. But several days ago I received news about death of young woman in Norway due to rabies. It is the first rabies-related death in Norway for more than 200 years. Birgitte Kalestad had caressed a stray puppy on her journey in Philippines. Only a little scratch on the hand was the case of 24 year old woman death. Now I have several feelings. I’m really sorry for all human and animal victims of terrifying rabies disease and I’m happy to be alive. Maybe I’m alive because of my precautions and medical help maybe because kitten hadn’t rabies in its saliva. But the things I know now: deadly danger could be anywhere, we need to be careful with our life, we have always to think ahead, and we need to know what to do if fatal mistake happens. Be careful and healthy my dear readers!
Wow! That was a gripping story.
Thanks :)
I got 80!!! Thank you for the quiz. Thankz Mr. Benjamin.
uh oh…. i got 60 … i want to make good scoe. and thanks Mr. benjamin
Thank you so much Benjamin, i really like your videos but can you explain the meaning of clever clogs, please?
It is quite interesting to now how to get the people attention when a story is told. Actually it is an exercise to improve the idiom. Great!
this video was useful thanks very much and carry on to make kind of those video who help us to improve our English speaking.
hello benjamin thank for all lessons, there are so helpful
can you cover the MEXT scholarship’s english exam?
Thank you so much Benjamin!
It was very good.Thank you so much Benjamin.
Thank you
Wow, well done guys, you’re getting high scores, I had experienced bad experiences with scores(/studying)… Let me tell you a short tale.
I never am the best in English, I am always the dumbest in top set. I always feel like I am in a maze of confusion. Fear and failure always makes me dread going to class. Drowning in confusion, I always wish that I could achieve my dream of being a good story writer. But something was stopping my dream; my hands weren’t human’s hand, but rather it was an octopus’s. So how am I still in set 1? Well, in my school set 1 is the only class in in school- there are no other classes! But how can I ever pass my GCSE’s? How do I achieve my top score? Well, like a friend once said, “who’s this useful to?”
My grade was useful to impressing a mermaid with a power to send me back into the ocean… You see I wasn’t your everyday human, but rather a half-octopus one…
What about you? Do you have a bad experience with studying?
Hey anyone reading this (thx if you do!) could you give me some advice on how to improve? Thx!
Way to go!
1o/1o
best regards,Benjamin
Greetings from Kazakhstan o8 Dec2o21:)
It was a good experience
A lovely lesson on how to tell an interesting story… or make a boring story interesting.
Thank You Very Much!
I do really enjoy your lessons, They are not only practical on a day to day English language practice but in a day life context with many advices to improve our social skills. Thank you very much for that!
THANK YOU!
Thanks Teacher