Intermediate
NEWS Story Lessons Plans for ESL
Courses
Developing writing skills: A news report
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)
Handouts/worksheets/templates/charts for students to use with pictures/photos (Word p. 3/4)
Looking at current affairs, different types of newspapers and what they report: handouts & worksheets (9 page PDF)
5 why's teaching activity (Word)
Story Lesson Ideas for ESL Teachers
and Students
Story starter sentences (PDF)
Past tense story telling activity with sentence
starters (PDF)
Retelling Stories: speaking activities
What's your story?: involves students in reading and writing collaboratively in groups. It also practices using time clauses.
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"
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.
Word at a time
Improv Exercise Conducted Story
Lessons with laughter
Presentation, Practice, and
Production in the EFL Class
Elements of the Short Story
Topical ESL Reading Lessons Using the
News
Breakingnewsenglish.com Current Events Lesson Plans
Bangkok Post Classroom Lessons
More NEWS Story Lessons teaching
exersises
A step-by-step guide to a newspaper lesson plan
Using Newspapers: teaching ideas
Global News teaching activities: What's in
the news worksheet? (PDF)
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
A visit from outer space:Look at the pictures and tell their story (PDF)
Picture Stories
Put the pictures in the correct order to tell a story
(word)
Adapting a picture story
Picture story activities incl. "Conference with teacher", "Mean kid at school", "A sick child"
Elementary (PDF)
Too tired to do homework (PDF)
