Skip to main content
Search
  • Log in
  • Register
Home

ESOL Nexus

Search
Menu
Log in
Home
  • Skills
    Expand
    • Speaking
    • Writing
    • Listening
    • Reading
    • Pronunciation
    • Numeracy
  • Grammar and vocabulary
    Expand
    • English grammar
    • Beginners
    • Grammar lessons
    • Vocabulary and spelling
  • UK life
    Expand
    • Video UK
    • English in my home
    • Family learning
    • Life in the UK test
    • Local services
    • Be safe UK
  • English for work
    Expand
    • Domestic workers
    • Your rights at work
    • Catering
    • Cleaners
    • Care work
    • Self employed and voluntary
  • Your turn
    Expand
    • Your story
    • My new home
    • ESOL learners
    • Quizzes

You are here

  • Home
  • >
  • Everyday Functions
  • >
  • Speaking
  • >
  • Functions - telling a story
  • >
  • Lessons and activities
  • >
  • Search Results

Search

▶Filter Your Results

Page 1 of 1

Storylines

A speaking and listening activity to help learners practise narrative tenses for storytelling. Aimed at lower level learners and above.

Presenting a personal history

This lesson focuses on the past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses in the context of biographies and culminates in students giving a short presentation about a famous person.

Learning to listen

Perhaps the most important skill connected with socialising is to ‘shut up and listen'. This lesson can help students to become active listeners.

Making it up: phrasal verb stories

A persistent problem area for students is phrasal verbs. This story activity presents the verbs in a context helping the students to work out the meaning. It is also memorable so it's easier for students to remember them too.
Reading news

News

In this lesson, students will develop their vocabulary to talk about the news. They will also be given the opportunity to discuss the news with their classmates and retell a newsworthy story that is important to them.

Filter Your Results

User

  • Teachers (5) Apply Teachers filter

Language level

  • Entry | National 2-4 (3) Apply Entry | National 2-4 filter
  • L2 | Higher (2) Apply L2 | Higher filter
  • L1 | National 5 (1) Apply L1 | National 5 filter

Section

  • (-) Remove Lessons and activities filter Lessons and activities
    • Lesson plans (3) Apply Lesson plans filter
    • Activities (2) Apply Activities filter

Topic

  • interpersonal communication (1) Apply interpersonal communication filter
  • love & relationships (1) Apply love & relationships filter
  • the media (1) Apply the media filter

Grammar

  • Tenses (2) Apply Tenses filter
  • Prepositions (1) Apply Prepositions filter

Skill

  • (-) Remove Speaking filter Speaking
    • Speaking - Active listening responses (2) Apply Speaking - Active listening responses filter
    • Speaking - Narration (2) Apply Speaking - Narration filter
    • Speaking - Awareness of audience, purpose & context (1) Apply Speaking - Awareness of audience, purpose & context filter
    • Speaking - Elaborate on ideas (1) Apply Speaking - Elaborate on ideas filter
    • Speaking - Generate & use relevant ideas (1) Apply Speaking - Generate & use relevant ideas filter
    • Speaking - Negotiation (1) Apply Speaking - Negotiation filter
    • Speaking Presentation (1) Apply Speaking Presentation filter
  • Listening (3) Apply Listening filter
  • Reading (2) Apply Reading filter

Vocabulary

  • English Expressions (1) Apply English Expressions filter

Function

  • (-) Remove Everyday Functions filter Everyday Functions
    • (-) Remove Functions - telling a story filter Functions - telling a story
    • Functions - stating opinions (1) Apply Functions - stating opinions filter
  • Describing / Presenting (3) Apply Describing / Presenting filter
  • Opinions / Thoughts (2) Apply Opinions / Thoughts filter
  • Social Interaction (1) Apply Social Interaction filter
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • British Council
  • Terms of use
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy and cookies

© British Council 2019

The United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.

A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland)