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Topic 17 - Famous Stories

By the end of the lesson you will be able to…

- Analyse adjective word order to give grammatically
accurate descriptions

- Develop critical thinking skills by discussing and
Aims for today speculating on the plot of a story
- Develop a range of reading skills using authentic English

texts
- Use narrative tenses and adjectives to plan and tell a
story in writing and speaking

Countdown: Split the class into small teams. Prepare a
number of cards with letters of the alphabet on them and
place them into piles of vowels and consonants. Teams take
it in turns to choose either a vowel or a consonant to make
up a 9 letter word. When this string of letters has been put
Optional Warmer onto the board, teams have 1 minute to make the longest
word they can from those letters. Each letter can only be
used once. The team with the longest correct word gets 1
point. The letters are then placed back into the piles and
shuffled, before the next team are asked to choose the
vowels and consonants to create the next 9 letter game.

Task 1

Skill Speaking and Reading
Time 15 mins
A.
You could put the image on the board and do the task as a whole
group activity, discussing what they think the book might be
about.
Teaching Tips
C.
Give students enough time to discuss questions in small groups.
If the class is speaking a lot then let the activity run slightly
longer.
A.
As pairs speak, monitor for good phrases used to predict content.
Assessment Don’t tell students if they are right or wrong at this moment.
B.
Monitor answers and check as a whole class. Concept check