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Plane anecdote with narrative tenses
B1-B2
30 mins +
groups: 10 (minimum)
gap fill
ordering
 
Story ordering activity about an incident on a flight with follow-up gap-fill task. Uses past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses.
 
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Anecdotes topics
B1-B2
 
Speaking practice worksheet on anecdotes consisting of eleven topics for telling anecdotes.
 
 
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Anecdote prompts
B1-B2
 
'Have you ever?' cards to prompt anecdotes.
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
Past simple and continuous - anecdote - the Donkey Dog
Short anecdote about a frightening experience, gapped for past continuous and past simple plus 'enormous' and 'the biggest'
 
 

 

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Inside Out Student's Book Intermediate book cover 
Inside Out Student's Book Intermediate
Unit 4 Adrenalin  Page 38 
Prompts and notes on structure for Ss to plan and tell an anecdote
 
 
New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate students' book book cover 
New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate students' book
Module 3 Adventures and mishap  Pages 32 - 33  Telling a story from two points of view
Split listening: two versions of a minor incident
 
Module 3 Adventures and mishap  Pages 34 - 35  Verb forms in the narrative
Follow-up exercise and analysis of language in previous listening. Three short gapped stories with audio to check answers
 
Module 7 Big events  Pages 74 - 75  Describing a memorable event
Students first listen to four people describing memorable events and then prepare and describe one themselves
 
 
New Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate book cover 
New Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate
Unit 4 Challenge  Page 38   Listening and vocabulary
Listening passage about an encounter with a polar bear following on from the reading
 
Unit 4 Challenge  Page 39   Speaking: anecdote
Students tell anecdote about a time they did something challenging. [Question prompts]
 
 
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