The document provides objectives, content, resources and activities for a lesson on writing stories in English. The objectives are to develop written expression skills, apply grammatical knowledge, use appropriate vocabulary, and structure texts in English. The content covers past tenses, vocabulary like verbs and adjectives, and linking words. Resources include verb and adjective flashcards. For the activity, students will choose a beginning and picture, outline their story with numbered ideas, present it in a PowerPoint, write the story, and present it to the group. They will be evaluated on the written work and oral presentation.

1. Writing a story
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2. 4 ESO
4 eso

3. Objetivos
• 1. Desarrollar la expresión escrita.
• 2. Aplicar los conocimientos gramaticales de la
lengua extranjera ( concordancia, orden de la
frase) a la creación de un texto propio.
• 3. Hacer uso correcto del vocabulario aprendido.
• 4. Estructurar un texto en otra lengua, utilizar
enlaces y fórmulas propias de la lengua inglesa.
• 5. Pasar de la comprensión de texto a la
creación. Utilizar la imaginación y desarrollar
técnicas narrativas en otra lengua.

4. Contenidos
• 1. Past tenses: simple ( consecutive actions in time)
continuous ( background situations, actions in
progress in the past) perfect( actions related to the
present, recent, over your whole lifetime).
• 2. Vocabulary: verbs ( feel, know, notice, realize,
overhear, see, taste / come, bring, show, tell, take,
have, share), adjectives ( of appearance, moods,
character, shapes and colours..)
* 3. Link words: and, then, before, after, meanwhile, so,
as, when, while, However, Nevetheless, Although…

5. Recursos
• Verbos en “Flash cards”....
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toda vela C1.A (Verbos) flashcards
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• Adjetivos en “Flash cards”
http://quizlet.com
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cards/

6. BEGINNINGS TO CHOOSE
• . “As I am sure you know, whenever there is a
mirror around, it is almost impossible not to take
a look at yourself.
Eventhough we all know what we loook like, just
to look at our reflections, if only to see how we
´re doing…..”
• 2. It is much, much worse to receive bad news
through the written word than by somebody
simply telling you, and I´m sure you understand

7. From “A series of unfortunate
events” by L. Snicket
• 3. “That night was a dark day. Of course, all
nights are dark days, because night is simply a
badly lit version of day, due to the fact that the
Earth travels around and around the sun…”
• 4. “It is useless for me to describe to you how
terrible they felt in the hours that followed. Most
people who have survived a storm at sea are so
shaken by the experience that they never want
to speak of it again..”

8. Actividades
• Choose the beginnig and a picture that suits you
best to tell a story of over 150 words.
• Number the ideas that you are planning to write
about in your essay. ( from 3 to 10)
• Put these four things together with power point.
( 1. Beginning. 2. picture. 3. Ideas.)
• Write your text on paper. Revise mistakes ( esp.
Agreement and Word Order)
• Show the rest of the group your power point
work and read/ tell us the story.

9. EVALUACIÓN
• Trabajo escrito. Redaccion. • Trabajo oral. Presentación.
80% (20%)
• Correspondencia del texto
escrito con el comienzo y foto • Presentación en Power Point
escogida. (20%) (10%)
• Uso apropiado de los tiempos
verbales, correccion
gramatical. (20%) Comunicación Oral (10%)
• Adecuación del vocabulario.
(20%)
• Comunicación de ideas y
originaidad. (20%)