Intermediate

NEWS Story Lessons Plans for ESL
Courses

Brainstorming the news (PDF)

What's the headline?: Activity type: Matching and writing headlines

And That's the News: Newspaper story activity
using pictures from newspapers

Posing & Asking Questions Activity: Behind the news question matrix (PDF)


Story Lesson Ideas for ESL Teachers
and Students

Titanic storytelling exercise with pictures (PDF)

Telling stories vocabulary, pictures & speaking
exercise (PDF)

Mixed-up story worksheet (PDF)

Past tense story telling activity with sentence
starters (PDF)

Retelling Stories: speaking activities

Telling a story: Level - intermediate and above

Storytelling: read and order a gapped story, complete the gaps with linking words, then build up an anecdote from prompts.

Story Telling Lesson

Advanced ESL storytelling lesson

Musical Stories

****Sounds Intriguing(Pilgrim's)

***ESL Story-Telling and Re-Telling Activity

Tell me the story: Sequencing

Chain Stories

Beginnings for chain stories

Mystery stories lesson plan

Story arts..(great site) lesson plans etc...

An Old Exercise/
Puzzle Stories ESL lesson plans from Pilgrims

Lesson plan "Storytelling festival"


More NEWS Story Lessons teaching
exersises

Using Newspapers: teaching ideas

News story lesson plan (Pilgrims)

Ambiguous headlines lesson

News headlines resource

Teaching EFL/ESL Students How to  Read Time and Newsweek

Conversation questions re the media

Using pictures to create stories/sequincing

Picture Stories

Adapting a picture story

Other ideas for Teaching Storytelling

Category Story: Purpose: To practice vocabulary and writing skills

Champagne Story
This a communicative story creation activity that can be adapted to any holiday or  festival in the year.

Presentation, Practice, and
Production in the EFL Class

Elements of the Short Story