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Wacky Stories

Aim: To practice vocabulary, all 12 tenses and conditional sentences (adjustable).

To practice storytelling techniques (building suspense, flash-backs, flash-

forwards, etc.)

Interaction: Groups of three or four

Exercise type:

Speaking, storytelling

Time: 15 minutes

Language: Depends on the level of Students

Level: A2 - C2

Materials: 1 set, cut up per group (the set can include as many cards as you decide and

may vary depending on the level of the students).

Procedure: In this activity the students make a chain story, using the

words and images on the cards, as well as the tenses or

grammar structures indicated on them. With a little

imagination and sense of humor from your students this

game can get hilarious. If you want to emphasize the use of

tenses and grammar structures, there is an extra tense

component on each card, this component instructs the

students not only to use a noun, a verb or an adjective on

the card but to construct the sentence in a certain tense.

This can bring into the story flash-backs and flash-forwards

(so you may need to pre-teach these storytelling techniques

first).

1. At the beginning of the game each of the students has 6

cards. The rest of the cards are placed on a desk in a pile

face down.

2. The students have a couple of seconds to look at their

cards. To determine the order in which the students will

play the game, they will draw from a bag that contains

pieces of paper with numbers on them (see the chart

below), the student who draws number 1 from the bag,

goes first. Alternatively, they can play a hand game of

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rock-paper-scissors or roll a dice or toss a coin.

3. The fist student starts telling an imaginary story using the

vocabulary on the cards that s/he has and also putting the

sentences in the tense indicated on these cards. Every time

the student uses a word or an image on the card, s/he places

the card face up in front of her/him and on a piece of paper

writes down the points earned for playing each card. If the

student manages to use the word on the card, the student

earns one point, for using the indicated grammar structure,

the student gets additional 2 points. Each student can play

as many cards as they can in each turn, but they cannot be

speaking for more than 2 minutes in one turn.

4. The student who goes next has to continue the story that

the first student started but use the words that s/he has on

her/his cards.

5. The third student continues the story.

6. When the students are out of cards, then at the next turn

each of them can pick up three cards from the pile. If they

cannot continue the story, they miss their turn. If a student

picks up three cards, but can play only one or two, the

student gets to keep the unused cards and can play them at

the next turn.

7. The game ends when there are no more cards left in a pile

or when the time set for the activity is over.

8. Each of the students counts the points on the cards they

have played during the game. The student with the top

score wins.

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