Starting class from an image and not from a word or group of words is expansive. The story counts, not the targeted words. Thus, there is greater potential for a story when we start class with an image. Stories that can expand in any direction are far more interesting than stories that reduce the language into smaller parts. Such stories are used only to get massive reps on those smaller parts of the language or, worse, to teach grammar. It is hard to grasp, given the research, but people actually are using stories to teach specific grammar concepts these days, like verb tenses. How far we’ve wandered since the early days with Blaine!