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EF B2.2 Task 2.2 - Contenido educativo

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Subido el 17 de septiembre de 2023 por Alberto O.

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Abby's books are full of adventurous characters living in wild places. 00:00:00
So where does she get the inspiration for her stories? 00:00:12
I start every story I write by trying to come up with an idea that nobody else has stumbled across yet. 00:00:16
And sometimes I find these ideas walking down the street or strolling in the park, 00:00:23
never really at my desk because that's too pressurized to think of an idea but it happens 00:00:28
more organically if I'm walking and daydreaming once I've come up with an idea that I believe in 00:00:34
that takes a long time I then usually go on an adventure to a far-flung place because I write 00:00:40
about wild settings to secure cement the setting to really grow the fictional world I want to write 00:00:46
about. So I've been out to the Arctic to research this book called Skysong, which is set in a snowy 00:00:53
kingdom called Urkenwald. And I went dog sledding. I watched the Northern Lights, the closest thing 00:01:02
I've ever seen to watching magic unfurl in our world. And I saw hundreds of orcas, killer whales, 00:01:08
feeding on tiny fish called herring under the sea. So those adventures formed the basis of this book. 00:01:14
And I also like writing about tribes, people who live in the furthest corners of our world that often maybe have a story to tell, but because of where they live, the story isn't told. 00:01:21
So for the heroine of Sky Song, a girl called Eska, I went out to Mongolia to live with the Kazakh eagle hunters. 00:01:36
I'd seen a photograph by an Israeli photographer, Asher Svidensky, of a girl called Aishal Pan. 00:01:44
And she is, well, she was 12 years old when the photo was taken. 00:01:53
And she is the only eagle huntress in a tribe full of men and boys. 00:01:57
And I thought that was cool, the only girl. 00:02:03
So I knew I wanted to meet her to write this book. 00:02:05
Abby wrote part of Sky Song while she was in hospital. 00:02:09
I spent four months in hospital, a third of a year, and during the course of that time, the midwives and the doctors and my friends who came to visit me were so unfailingly kind, and I wanted to write a book, Sky Song, that celebrated this theme of kindness. 00:02:13
Abby has an unusual way of planning her stories. 00:02:35
so I'm dyslexic and when I started writing I was very scared that that would be a problem and that 00:02:39
I wouldn't be able to be a successful writer because my ideas often are a bit confused and 00:02:47
tangled but what I've realized is that dyslexic people think hugely creatively and they notice 00:02:53
things other people miss so I've learned that if I doodle if I draw the world I want to write about 00:03:01
as a map. So maybe I put a forest here, a mountain here, a sea, a river, a lake. Then I might have 00:03:09
my characters travelling from place to place and at every place they encounter an obstacle. 00:03:18
Maybe they're betrayed in one place, they're robbed in another, they discover something they 00:03:24
weren't meant to see at the river. And then slowly but surely my plot starts to take shape. 00:03:31
So I used to think doodling was wrong. My teachers used to say, stop doodling, start concentrating. 00:03:38
But I think drawing your way into a story, especially if you're dyslexic, can be a very, very useful tool. 00:03:44
Today, Abby spends a lot of time visiting schools and talking to the thousands of children who love her books and are inspired by her stories. 00:03:52
I want to talk to young children about this idea of being creative. 00:04:03
I'm not an obvious sort of person for being an author. 00:04:08
I have dyslexia and yet I'm an author. 00:04:13
I had 96 rejections before I became an author. 00:04:15
So I want to tell children that the creative people are often the people who are brave enough to fail. 00:04:19
Subido por:
Alberto O.
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17 de septiembre de 2023 - 19:19
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EOI E.O.I. DE TORREJÓN DE ARDOZ
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04′ 28″
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