1. Story

2. Six Word Lives One Life. Six Words. What’s Yours?
I was never the pretty one.
Followed rules, not dreams. Never Again.
Found true Love, married someone else.
Time heals all wounds? Not quite.
Six words not enough for a
Never lived up to my potential
Didn’t fit in then, still don’t
I write stories. They come true
I still make coffee for two

3. Match the famous people with the story
Bill Gates
Julius Caesar
Agatha Christie
Martin Luther King
Princess Diana
Kept you guessing til the end
My dream came true at last
Died young and beautiful, loved forever
I connected people and got rich.
I came, I saw, I conquered

4. Bill Gates
I connected people and got rich.

5. Princess Diana
Died young and beautiful, loved forever

6. Julius Caesar
I came, I saw, I conquered

7. Agatha Christie
Kept you guessing til the end

8. Martin Luther King
My dream came true at last

9. Your Turn Six word stories for the class
Write your story we’ll try to guess who it belongs to

10. Story Types Anecdote Fable Fairy tale Legend Myth News Story
Short Story
Whodunnit

11. Which Story?
Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, there lived a beautiful princess.
Have I told you about the time I fell into the river?
Long ago, there lived a brave warrior and his band of soldiers.
‘Let’s return to the scene of the crime and see if we can’t find any more clues,’ the inspector said
At 92, Muriel felt she has achieved all she could in life
And the moral is: pride goes before a fall.
Reports are coming in of a forest fire which is spreading rapidly in northern countries
Athena, daughter of Zeus, was the goddess of wisdom and warfare
Anecdote
Fable
Fairy Tale
Legend
Myth
News Story
Short Story
Whodunnit

12. Think, Pair, Share Think about what to say and how to say it
What kind of story is it?
Where and when did you read, hear or see it?
What is the story about?
Where and when is the story set?
Who are the characters?
What’s the plot of the story?
What happens in the end?
Why do you like it?

13. Daily Phrases
They say that eating carrots helps you see in the dark, but personally I think it’s just __________
I said you can’t borrow my car, and I mean it. __________
We lost our luggage at the airport, and had to fill in various forms and keep calling the airline. But anyway, _________, we managed to get it back in the end.
‘Mom! Ella hit the cat!’ ‘Don’t tell ______ about your sister, Mia’
An old wives’ tale
To make a long story short
tales
End of story

14. Daily Phrases
I’m afraid you can’t believe everything Karen says. She’s got ________ about how badly people treat her
When he arrived late he told me ________ about being trapped in an elevator and then being rescued by a news reporter and being interviewed on television.
I didn’t get the job – they told me I didn’t have enough experience. But that’s _________ I’m afraid.
‘So how come you managed to persuade your father to lend you the car?’ ‘Well, it’s _________.”
Cock-and-bull story – a tall tale (unbelievable story that is meant to be believed
A cock-and-bull story
The story of my life
Sob story
A long story

15. Match the Expression with what it’s related to
A myth or superstition
A silly story that is hard to believe
A story told to get someone else into trouble
A sad story designed to elicit sympathy
A story that you don’t want to tell in detail
A detailed or complicated story
An attempt to stop discussion or argument about something
Something unfortunate that often happens to someone

16. Creating Conversations
Write a Script using the words on the blackboard and at least three of the following words
A cock-and-bull story
End of story
A long story
An old wives’ tale
A sob story
Tales
The story of my life
To cut a long story short
Groups of three – genre of movie on board