Intermediate

NEWS Story Lessons Plans for ESL
Courses

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

News story lesson plan (Pilgrims)

Ambiguous headlines lesson

Teaching EFL/ESL Students How to  Read Time and Newsweek

Conversation questions re the media

Story Lesson Ideas for ESL Teachers
and Students

Titanic storytelling exercise with pictures (PDF)

Review of verb tenses through student generated
stories exercise (PDF)

Telling stories vocabulary, pictures & speaking
exercise (PDF)

Write a pargraph about this picture (PDF)

What happened next? story telling exercise (PDF)

Past tense story telling activity with sentence
starters (PDF)

Retelling Stories: speaking activities

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

Story Telling Lesson

Advanced ESL storytelling lesson

Musical Stories

****Sounds Intriguing(Pilgrim's)

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

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"

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