👻 Urban Legends Around the World
Students read a 1000+ word article featuring three famous urban legends from around the world: The Vanishing Hitchhiker (USA/Europe), Kuchisake-onna (Japan) and La Llorona (Mexico). Vocabulary words are highlighted in the reading text in a distinct colour so students can identify them before reaching the vocabulary section. Folklorist Dr. Yuki Tanaka explains why urban legends survive across cultures. Grammar covers the past perfect (had + past participle) for sequencing events, combining past simple and past perfect in narratives, and knowing when past perfect is necessary vs optional. The interactive game presents 10 sentences where students choose the correct past perfect form. The writing task asks students to write their own urban legend or retell one from their country using narrative tenses.
Lesson Plan
- 3 warm-up questions about scary stories
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Past perfect: had + past participle (She had died twenty years earlier)
- Sequencing: earlier event (past perfect) + later event (past simple)
- She screamed (2nd) because she had seen a ghost (1st)
- By the time / already / never / just with past perfect
- Not needed when events are in chronological order (She got in, gave the address, sat quietly)
- Common error: When I arrived, she already left -> she had already left
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