The alien in the garden: a space story
Zara finds a small, lost alien in her garden and helps it get home; children study story openings, speech and endings, practise past continuous for background, then write their own space story.
Kids · FlyersYoung learners30 minStory
About this lesson
A Kids · Flyers writing lesson (story). Prompts, model texts and simple checklists — from a first email to an opinion essay.
- Level
- Kids · Flyers · Young learners – Flyers (A2)
- Skill
- Writing
- Type
- Story
- Students
- Young learners
- Time
- About 30 minutes
- Topic
- Space
- Activities
- Picture words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, Multiple choice, Matching, Gap-fill, Word order
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Open a story with the setting using the past continuous (was sitting, was raining)
- Use speech marks for what characters say
- Write a story with a clear problem and a happy or surprising ending