H ow to write a story

2 Bach
 Story
Warming up

A narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse,

designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or
reader; tale.
Think about examples
Order the story

Student book. Page 50

Homework: exercises 2, 3 and 4.
Which elements a good story must have?
Which kind of characters can we find in famous stories?
What are the main parts of a story?
Elements Characters
SETTING PROTAGONIST

Parts
CHARACTERS ANTAGONIST
PLOT
END
 While

Speaking! In groups of 5 create your own story as the different elements appear
on the screen.
STARTER:
Start with this sentence…

I was totally afraid and

I couldn’t move myself…
setting

Write a story that

takes place in a bridal
shop.
Introduce a surprise element…

A tree
Post It’s time to write…
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Let’s write a book together! You will write a story in “bookcreator” Your story
will be part of our own book! Let’s have a look at bookcreator!
1. SETTING
2. STARTER
3. MAIN CHARACTER
4. PLOT TWIST
5. SURPRISE ELEMENT
6. LAST LINE.
 LESSON PLAN
Warming-up:
- Speaking about what is a story. The students give the definition of “story”.
- Reading: They need to order a cut down text by reading its parts and they will
do the exercises of the reading comprehension at home.
- Speaking: They talk about the elements, characters and parts a story must have.
- Showing the elements of a story.
While:
- Speaking: Creating a story following the different instructions and adding the
information given.
- Telling the stories.
Post:
- Writing: the students write their own stories on “bookcreator.com” This will
create a digital book that will be published on social media for the rest students
of the high school.
 CONTENTS
Writing a story is part of the unit 4. With this writing students revise the previous grammar, verb tenses and
the grammar of this unit which is relative pronouns. The use of linking words is presented in this activity too.
KEY COMPETENCES
- Linguistic Communication Competence.
- Digital Competence
- Learning to learn Competence.
- Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.
- Plurilingual Competence.
- Cultural Awareness and Expression Competence.
OBJECTIVES
- To understand and make yourself understood in English.
- To express and interact orally with a certain degree of fluency.
- To understand written texts globally and paying attention to the details.
- To express and produce simple formal and informal written texts with some degree of accuracy.

LOMLOE (Organic Law 3/2020, of December 29, which modifies

Organic Law 2/2006, of May 3, on Education)
 ASSESSMENT
The assessment will take part in the final product of this project. The students will create
a short story on the digital book. This story will be assessed as a normal writing with the
writing rubric I attach.