- Warm-up: My winter break in emojis (choose 10 emojis to tell your classmates about what you did during winter holidays).
- Speaking (introducing story writing): Do you like stories? What kind? What makes a story interesting? What stories do you remember from your childhood? Do you have a favourite story? + STORY ELEMENTS + PLOT DIAGRAM
- Copies – Practice (in groups):
1) Put the events in order to create a story.
- Julia picked it up and looked around, but no one was nearby.
- The phone had been ringing for a few seconds before it stopped.
- Julia used to walk in that park every weekend when she was younger, and she would always see people jogging or walking their dogs.
- It was raining, and she was thinking about going home.
- The next day, they met in the same park, and he gave her a big smile — and a box of chocolates.
- Last Saturday, Julia was walking through the park when she noticed something shiny in the grass.
- She had never found anything valuable before, so she felt a bit nervous.
- She took the phone home. By the time she arrived, the battery had died.
- Luckily, she had written down the number from the screen before it turned off.
- Later that evening, she called the number from her own phone. A young man answered and said he had been looking for his phone all afternoon.
2) Analyze the STORY ELEMENTS (characters, setting, conflict, theme, plot) and the PLOT DIAGRAM (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution) in the story.
3) Identify NARRATIVE TENSES (past simple, past continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous) in the story.
- Practice: Read about NARRATIVE WRITING step by step and then complete the exercises online.
- Games (order the story): story 1 + story 2
- Games (complete the story): story 1 + story 2