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Life Life: Intermediate Unit 3d

This document provides teaching notes for an English language lesson on telling stories using time expressions. It includes: 1) Pictures for students to describe and identify events happening. 2) Expressions like "all of a sudden" and "while we were away" for students to match to pictures. 3) Instructions for students to work in pairs to choose pictures and prepare a story using the expressions. 4) Suggestions for students to tell their stories to other pairs and note the pictures used. 5) A prompt for students to tell a personal story from their holiday. 6) A writing activity where students write a new story using different pictures.

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Life Life: Intermediate Unit 3d

This document provides teaching notes for an English language lesson on telling stories using time expressions. It includes: 1) Pictures for students to describe and identify events happening. 2) Expressions like "all of a sudden" and "while we were away" for students to match to pictures. 3) Instructions for students to work in pairs to choose pictures and prepare a story using the expressions. 4) Suggestions for students to tell their stories to other pairs and note the pictures used. 5) A prompt for students to tell a personal story from their holiday. 6) A writing activity where students write a new story using different pictures.

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Intermediate Unit 3d

Life Teacher’s notes

Communicative worksheet Saying when things happened


All of a sudden, I was …
Telling stories The next thing, we were …
While we were away, …
1 Set the scene by asking students to look
After that, we were …
at the pictures and say where the people
Suddenly, I was …
are and what they can see happening.
During our holiday, we …

2 Ask students to look at the pictures on


4 Ask pairs to choose five pictures and
the story page again and find pictures that
prepare a story. Point out that they need
show the following words:
a picture to set the scene, pictures to say
what happened and a picture with an
a yacht a snake a shark a beach
ending to the story. They can choose any
a helicopter
pictures in any order. Circulate to help
with ideas and words.
Alternative activity
You could brainstorm more vocabulary if
5 Ask each pair to find another pair then
you think it is necessary to help students
tell them to take turns to tell their story.
to tell stories. For example:
Alternatively, you could ask different pairs
to tell their story to the class.
lie on a beach, run away from, chase,
climb up a tree, feel terrified, etc.
To create a task for the pairs or class as
they listen, tell students to note which
3 Divide the class into pairs and hand out
pictures the storytelling pair are using in
the Student cards. Ask students to look at
their story.
the expressions, answer the questions,
and check in pairs. Note that students
6 Personalise
should compare the expressions they
Ask students to prepare and tell a story of
have and match expressions to some
something that happened to them while
pictures.
they were on holiday.

Answers
7 Writing
Beginning a story
Ask students to write a different story
Did I ever tell you about the time when …?
from the one they told in class, using five
A couple of years ago, I was …
different pictures from the story page.
About two years ago, I was …
You’ll never believe what happened to me
when …

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