Our thankful tablecloth: a blog post about a family tradition
Rosa's blog post describes her family's Thanksgiving tradition of writing on the same tablecloth every year; students study how a blog post hooks and keeps its readers, practice time expressions and vivid details, then plan and write a post about a tradition in their own family.
B1Teens50 minBlog post
About this lesson
A B1 writing lesson (blog post). Prompts, model texts and simple checklists — from a first email to an opinion essay.
- Level
- B1
- Skill
- Writing
- Type
- Blog post
- Students
- Teens
- Time
- About 50 minutes
- Topic
- Thanksgiving
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, True / False, Matching, Gap-fill, Table to fill in
- Key words
- tradition, fabric pen, ink, signature, wobbly, ordinary, pass away, comments
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Organize a blog post: a title and opening that catch the reader, the story of a tradition, details, feelings and a question for readers
- Use time expressions with the past simple, present simple and present perfect: since, for, ago, every year, when
- Write vivid details that the reader can picture instead of general words such as nice or happy