Adventure Story: The Time Machine
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Adventure Story: The Time Machine

This ESL lesson plan engages students in an exciting adventure story about a time machine while improving grammar, writing, and reading skills. Through discussions, brainstorming, reading activities, and past simple exercises, learners practice storytelling. The lesson concludes with a creative writing task where students craft their own time-travel adventure. Perfect for A2-level kids and teens!

Skills

  • Uses some simple structures correctly; it is usually clear what they are trying to say.
  • Can compose an introduction to a story or continue a story, provided they can consult a dictionary and references.
  • Can understand short, simple texts on familiar matters of a concrete type which consist of high frequency everyday language.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Discuss the following questions.

1
If time travel becomes possible in the future, do you think people will use it? Why or why not?
2
If you find a time machine, which time period will you choose to visit and why?
3
What do you think can happen during a time travel adventure?
2

Read the dialogue between Max and Lily about time travel. Where did Max go? What did he see?

3

Answer the questions below.

4

Make sentences from these words using the past simple.

5

Write a time-travel story!

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