Exploring the Tales of Everyday People
ESL Lesson PlansExploring the Tales of Everyday People

Exploring the Tales of Everyday People

This ESL lesson plan delves into people stories through listening, reading, and speaking activities. Students guess a city from quotes, analyze vocabulary, and engage with stories from "Humans of New York." The lesson fosters discussion, emotional connections, and storytelling while enhancing comprehension and conversational fluency. Homework includes creating a personal project inspired by the blog’s interviews.

Skills

  • Can understand a wide range of recorded and broadcast material, including some non-standard usage, and identify finer points of detail including implicit attitudes and relationships between people.
  • Can scan quickly through several sources in parallel, in both their own field and in related fields, and can identify the relevance and usefulness of particular sections for the task at hand.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Read the quotes. Which cities could match these descriptions?

Do you know which city they're actually about? Have you ever been there?
1. "One belongs to _______________(1) instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years." - Tom Wolfe 2. "My favorite thing about _______________(2) is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are." - Bill Murray 3. "I love _______________(3), even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it." - Truman Capote 4. "I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance." - Nora Ephron
2

Match the words to the definitions

3

Read the article and complete it with the missing words

4

Watch the video about the author of HONY and answer the questions

5

Choose a story and share it with the group

6

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