Unit 5 | Session 1

That’s another story!

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Discuss different types of stories and
talk about plans and changes to plans in the past
 Unit 5 | Session 1
That’s another story!
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Discuss different types of stories
and talk about plans and changes to plans in the past

Lesson overview

1 GET STARTED: A good story

2 PREPARE: Describing stories
3 SPEAKING: An interesting life
4 PREPARE: No plan is perfect
5 SPEAKING: No plan is perfect
6 PROGRESS CHECK
GET STARTED
A good story
Look at the photo and share your
answers to the questions.
1. What kind of story do you think the woman is
reading? Do you think she is enjoying it?

2. What was the last good story you read, heard,

or watched? What kind of story was it? What
was it about? What did you like about it?
PREPARE
Describing stories a. coming-of-age story
Match the descriptions to the types of story. b. family saga
They can be more than one type. Explain your answers. c. feel-good story
1. Two friends get lost in the woods. They fear someone is following them. ____ d. hard-luck story
2. A man opens a restaurant but discovers that running a business is harder e. horror story
than it looks. He loses his investment, and his wife leaves him. ____
f. human interest story
3. The story is about members of the richest family in America. Everyone works
in the family business, and family members argue with each other as they try g. love story
to increase their wealth and power. ____ h. mystery
4. A pet dog is lost while a family is on vacation. The dog travels across the i. personal tragedy
country to find his family. ____
j. success story
5. A college student invents a new technology. He becomes a millionaire and
falls in love. ____ k. tall tale

6. One summer, a group of boys goes on an adventure. They learn the value of l. tearjerker
friendship and promise to help one another as they grow up. ____
PREPARE
Describing stories
Choose one of the stories. Discuss these questions.
• What do you think happened before?
• What do you think happened next?

1. By the time we arrived at the door of the old house, it

had begun to rain.

2. I looked out of the window and saw something I had

never seen before.

3. When they met again by the lake in the park, they

hadn’t talked to each other for almost ten years.
SPEAKING
An interesting life
1. Think of a person whose life would make
an interesting book or movie. It can be
someone you know or someone famous.
2. Think about what type of story you want
to tell about this person. Is it a love
story? A feel-good story? etc.
3. Decide when your story will start, what
happened before it starts, what happens
during the story, and how it ends.
We think a story about Manuela Saenz
4. Be prepared to explain your story to the would make a great movie. She had been
class in a few sentences. married to an Englishman, but she left her
husband in 1822 to fight with Simon Bolivar.
She’d already been involved in the fight for
independence for several years and . . .
PREPARE
No plan is perfect
Look at the photo. What do you think happened?
What do you think were the man’s plans?
Make four sentences about the man and his plans using “was/were going to” and
“was/were supposed to.”

He was supposed to leave work earlier, as

he was going to take the 5 o’clock train.
PREPARE
No plan is perfect
Complete the man’s story with “was/were (not) going to”
and “was/were (not) supposed to.”
Leo had great plans for tonight. He and his friends 1___________
get together to celebrate his promotion. They 2___________ finish
work at the usual time and meet at this fancy restaurant at seven.
Leo had it all planned. As he was working from home, Leo
3
____________ take the six o’clock train to the city and then a taxi
to the restaurant, but, of course, no plan is perfect. Five minutes
before he 4___________ leave for the station, his boss called. He
5
___________ answer the phone, but he did. Big mistake . . .
SPEAKING
No plan is perfect
1. Think of a time when your plans changed at the last minute.
What were you going to do? What was supposed to happen? What
went wrong? What did you end up doing?
2. Share your story with your classmates. Ask questions about your
classmates’ stories to get more information.
3. Choose the most interesting story in your group. Share it with the
class.
PROGRESS CHECK

Now I can . . .
 discuss different types of stories.
 talk about plans and changes to plans in the past.
 Unit 5 | Session 1
That’s another story!
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Discuss different types of stories and
talk about plans and changes to plans in the past

Thank you!