This lesson encourages learners to speculate about a passage from A Tale of Two Cities, and later use that speculation to generate their own writing.

Level: B2+

Age group: Teens/adults who enjoy creative writing

Timing: 90 mins approx

Aims:

  • To encourage students to engage with and speculate about a literary text, and to turn that speculation into accurate writing
  • For students to practise reading for gist and detail

Plan components: The lesson plan and worksheets can be downloaded in PDF format below

By Richard Lunt

The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format - right click on the attachment and save it on your computer.

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Comments

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Thu, 10/22/2015 - 14:00

Thanks for pointing out the broken links for this lesson plan. We will work on getting the links back up as soon as possible - sorry for the inconvenience. Best wishes, Cath

Submitted by Cinme on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 04:44

The links for lesson plan and worksheets are broken. Please fix them. Thank you.

Hi Cinme Apologies for the delay - the lesson plan and worksheets are now available to download. Best wishes, Paul

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