Introduction

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.

Topic

Telling the tale ‘The Little Red Riding Hood’ with Cuisenaire rods

Level

B1/B2

Time

60-90 mins

Aims

• To develop the ability to tell a story
• To use the continuous form in present and past

Materials

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

Download lesson plan 123k pdf 

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 71k pdf

For more information about this topic you can visit these BBC and British Council sites:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/subjects/english/little_red_riding_hood
  This BBC site has an animated version of the story.
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3884929.stm
  This BBC site has an article about top fairytales.
• http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories
  More stories and story activities from this British Council LearnEnglish website.
• http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/stories-poems
  More stories and poems for older adult learners from this British Council website. 

Malisa Iturain Teacher, British Council, Barcelona

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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