Stories for Schools: The Long Journey Home by Sophie Smiley

Stories for Schools is a British Council Turkey project to provide students with high-quality English language short stories.

The Long Journey Home is a short story written by Sophie Smiley, a UK teacher and writer of storybooks for children.

Set in Istanbul, this is a thrilling adventure story about a football-mad boy who gets caught up with a gang of criminals. How can Mehmet’s football skills help him beat a man with a gun?

The Long Journey Home is a short story written by Sophie Smiley, a UK teacher and writer of storybooks for children.

Set in Istanbul, this is a thrilling adventure story about a football-mad boy who gets caught up with a gang of criminals. How can Mehmet’s football skills help him beat a man with a gun?

Level: A2-B1

Age: 14-17 (but activities included which may appeal to younger learners) 

This ‘kit’ was designed by Turkish materials writers. 

The kit below includes activities for you to print and copy, the complete text, and teachers' notes. The kit needs to be used selectively as each contains activities likely to appeal to different age groups.    

Copyright - please read

All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only. You may not redistribute, sell or place these materials on any other web site without written permission from the BBC and British Council. If you have any questions about the use of these materials please email us at: teachingenglish@britishcouncil.org

Comments

Submitted by Olayinka Dawodu on Tue, 09/17/2024 - 19:49

This is quite an interesting method to teach writer's effect and language use.
Thank you

Submitted by clementinedusi… on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 18:04

I liked this topic as it helps students improve self expression. Thank you!

Submitted by walmcin on Fri, 01/27/2023 - 20:46

I have just done the B.C. course on teaching English through literature and am looking forward to putting it into practice with this story. The pre, while, and post activities are so complete! Thank you.

Hi walmcin

Thanks for the feedback and we are glad that you found the course (and this resource!) useful. Hope you and your students enjoy it.

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

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