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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