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)

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

A visit from outer space:Look at the pictures and tell their story (PDF)

Mixed-up story worksheet (PDF)

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

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)