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Wacky stories – Comminucative ESL Game to practise vocabulary and tenses.
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).
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The printable handout can be downloaded here >> Wacky Stories – Comminucative ESL Game
The game is also available for download on slideshare:
Past Tenses Jeopardy Game
I have made this Jeopardy game to help my students review the use of Past Tenses – Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous.
The game includes three types of questions:
1. Filling in the gaps, where players need to put the verbs in brackets in the correct past tense (Fill category);
2. Error correction, where each of the sentences has a mistake in the use of past tenses, the task is to find the mistake and to correct it (Fix);
3. Choosing the most suitable option according to the picture (Choose).
The game has a main screen with a Jeopardy board, the students select the type of question and its value (more difficult questions value more) and click on a corresponding button. This will take a student to a question slide. When the students give their answer, click on the question mark button in the bottom righ-hand corner, this will take you to an answer screen. On the answer screen, click on the house icon to return to the main screen with the jeopady board.
Enjoy!
Click here to download the editable > Past Tenses Review Jeopardy