This lesson plan for teachers of teenage and adult students at intermediate level and above is based on the theme of telling stories. Students will develop fluency and work towards developing accuracy.

Introduction

Narrative, telling stories and anecdotes forms an important part of our everyday communication. This lesson is aimed at developing the ability to tell stories or anecdotes.

The lesson is based on an idea from 'Once Upon a time' by John Morgan & Mario Rinvolucri. It starts with fluency practice and works towards developing accuracy. The lesson also includes a grammatical focus session that aims to develop understanding of the meaning and form of narrative tenses.

Topic

Storytelling

Level

Intermediate and above

Time

60-90 mins

Aims

  • To develop the ability to tell a story fluently.
  • To develop the ability to understand and accurately use a range of narrative tenses.

Materials 

Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure including answers to tasks.

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Worksheets: exercises which can be printed out for use in class. 

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For more storytelling ideas see 'Once upon a time' by John Morgan & Mario Rinvolucri: Cambridge University Press (1984).

 

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Submitted by Mandoumbé on Sun, 05/02/2021 - 01:08

Telling stories or anecdotes can be funny a funny way of teaching language skills in an English as foreign language context 

In this type of activity students have something to say and they will use their background knowledge.

It can be guided by choosing a topic and brainstorm in to provide with the students the necessary vocabulary items they need to tell the story 

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