Telling Simple Stories

A2 · Elementary57 minBasic BasicsLesson 7 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: tell a one-minute story with a start, a middle, and an end — using suddenly, luckily, and in the end.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Tell me what happened

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Guess What Happened!

    Read a 163-word text about Guess What Happened!

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Storytelling Words

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Telling a Story

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Build Story Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Tell Me What Happened

    Role-play: You are telling a friend about something funny that happened to you (8 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: your best story

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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suddenlyluckilyunfortunatelyin the endsoguess what

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