Malisa Iturain Teacher, British Council, Barcelona

Level - Low -Intermediate and above

The ability to tell stories, jokes and anecdotes is an important part of our everyday communication both in and out of the language classroom.

During this lesson, learners will have the opportunity to tell a story as it is happening, use new vocabulary and re-tell the story orally or in writing using narrative tenses. There will be the chance to use time phrases in a context which they have created themselves.

The lesson plan includes some follow up tasks which focus on language form.

Plan components

Lesson Plan: - guide for teacher on procedure including worksheet tasks answers to tasks and example text.

Download lesson plan >> 90 k

Worksheets: - exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheet contains:

• A dialogue
• 2 follow up language focus tasks
• Example story text

Download worksheets >> 53 k

The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format. Where indicated, there is also audio available to be downloaded. Audio is supplied in mp3 format. If you have difficulty downloading the materials see the download section of the About page.

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