LESSON OVERVIEW

This lesson plan is all about telling stories in English. Students learn some vocabulary as well as various time markers which are useful when doing speaking activities. It also includes a short animated video for students to retell. This worksheet might be a great supplement to lesson plans on narrative tenses. You can use our worksheet on narrative tenses.

VOCABULARY

First, students need to just complete phrases with words from the box. The task includes the following phrases: on purpose, in a hurry, by mistake, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, by accident. Then, they move to another activity. They have to read two short stories which are somehow connected with the provided images. One of the is a love story and the other is a crime story. Their task is to complete a table with adverbs and time markers they find in the texts. Next, they read another story. This time, it is a mystery story, and students have to find mistakes in that text. The mistakes are related to the vocabulary they’ve learnt in the previous tasks.

TELLING STORIES IN ENGLISH

Let’s move to a practical part of the worksheet. First, students have to watch an animated video and retell the story from it. They also get some images to help them retell the story step by step. Finally, the last task is just sheer practice. Students get two sets of various images and they have to build two stories that are connected with the images given. They also have to remember to use vocabulary from the lesson.