Lesson plan
Topic : Happiness Aims : To practise Speaking and writing skills / To talk about happiness / to practise narrative tenses Age group : teenagers / adults Level : A2 / B1 Materials : worksheet with the Words ( page 21 ) and the photo
Time : 1 hour Created by “ Inspirational English ”
Show the picture and ask your students to specualte on it Come up with some questions to make them think , such as :
Divide the students into groups for the next stages . If possible have an even number of groups . Hand out the worksheet with the words ( page 21 ) and ask them to put them into categories . They can choose what the name of the categories will be . Explain any unafamiliar vocabulary .
Image credit : https :// pixabay . com / Pezibear
Tell the students they need to write a story using at least 15 of the words . Point out that they have to use appropriate narrative tenses , e . g . Past Simple and Past Continuous tense . If necessary , revise them or do the activity after the tenses have been taught . The story has to end with the following sentence :
Set a time limit . While the students are creating the story , walk around and check for errors .
When the students are ready . Ask them to post their stories on the wall without writing their names . The students walk around , read the stories and have to vote for the best one .
Ask the students to illustrate the BEST story .. If you have access to the Internet in class , they could do it online using : https :// www . mystorybook . com .
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