A surprise visit: a story about friends and family
A teenager's lonely birthday becomes a surprise visit from a best friend. Students study narrative tenses and write a story for a competition.
B1Teens45 minStory
About this lesson
A B1 writing lesson (story). Prompts, model texts and simple checklists — from a first email to an opinion essay.
- Level
- B1
- Skill
- Writing
- Type
- Story
- Students
- Teens
- Time
- About 45 minutes
- Topic
- Family & friends
- Activities
- Speaking / writing task, Key words, Reading text, Multiple choice, Gap-fill, Matching
- Key words
- rucksack, grow up, lonely, secretly, explore, stay up late, realise, far apart
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Understand how a story is organized: opening, background, events, ending
- Use past simple, past continuous and past perfect to tell a story
- Write a 120–150 word story that ends with a given sentence