Lesson Plan Based on NPR StoryCorps Selection: A Good Deed

From http://elt-resourceful.com/2013/05/29/a-good-deed-free-downloadable-lesson

Here is a free downloadable lesson, based around an authentic audio recording from Storycorps.com, where Virginia recalls a good deed her father did during the Great Depression in America.

The lesson starts with a short text giving some background to the Depression of the 1930s, and invites students to think about parallels with the situation in some countries today and what can, or should be done by individuals and governments.

Students then listen to the audio, which is quite short and simple, listening both for gist and specific information.

There is then a focus on narrative tenses, specifically simple past and past perfect. This could work as part of an introduction to past perfect, or as a review at higher levels. Students then try to retell Virginia’s story, using tenses appropriately, before going on to tell their own ‘good deed’ stories.

Download the lesson plan and listen to the story at http://elt-resourceful.com/2013/05/29/a-good-deed-free-downloadable-lesson