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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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Use Past Perfect : +2 Use Past Perfect: +2
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Use ConditionalType 2 : +2 Use ConditionalType 1 : +2 Score: 2
Score: 1
Use Present Perfect : +2 Use Present Perfect Continuous : +2
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Score: 1
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Use Past Perfect Continuous: +2 Use Past Simple: +2 Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Past Continuous : +2 Use Future Perfect: +2 Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Past Perfect Continuous: +2 Use Future Simple: +2
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Score: 1
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Use Future Continuous : +2 Use Conditional Type 3: +2
Score: 1
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Use Past Perfect Continuous: +2 Use Past Continuous: +2
Score: 1
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Use Past Perfect : +2 Use Present Simple: +2
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Score: 1
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Use Past Perfect Continous : +2 Use Past Continuous: +2
Score: 1
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Use Past Simple: +2 Use Future Simple: +2 Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Conditional Type 2 : +2 Use Past Perfect: +2
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Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Conditional Type 3 : +2 Use Past Simple: +2
Score: 1
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Use Past Perfect Continuous: +2 Use Conditional Type 1: +2 Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Future Perfect: +2 Use Conditional Type 3: +2
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Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Past Continuous : +2 Use Past Simple: +2
Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Future Perfect: +2 Use Future Continuous: +2 Score: 1
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Use Past Perfect : +2 Use Past Continuous: +2
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Score: 1
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Use Past Continous : +2 Use Future Continuous: +2
Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Past Perfect Continuous: +2 Use Present Perfect Continuous: +2
Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Present Continuous : +2 Use Future Continuous: +2
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Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Present Simple : +2 Use Conditional Type 2: +2
Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Present Continuous : +2 Use Future Simple: +2
Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Past Perfect : +2 Use Future Perfect: +2
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Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Present Perfect : +2 Use Future Continuous: +2
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Use Past Perfect : +2 Use Past Perfect: +2
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Use Past Perfect : +2 Use Past Continuous: +2
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Score: 1
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Use Past Perfect : +2 Use FuturePerfect: +2
Score: 1
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Use Conditional Type 2 : +2 Use Past Perfect: +2 Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Future Continuous : +2 Use Present Perfect: +2
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Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Past Perfect Continuous: +2 Use Future Simple: +2
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Use Present Continuous : +2 Use Future Simple: +2
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Use Present Continuous : +2 Use Present Perfect: +2
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Score: 1
Score: 1
Use Past Perfect : +2 Use Past Perfect Continuous: +2
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Use Present Continuous : +2 Use Past Perfect: +2
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Use Past Perfect Continuous : +2 Use Present Simple: +2
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TIMID
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RECLUSE
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NON-CONFORMIST
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LASTING
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HARMLESS
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BIASED
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CONCEITED
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INTRIGUING
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WORRYING
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WELL-MATCHED
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REASSURING
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THICK-SKINED
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OVERCOOKED
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INSINCERITY
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TIREDLY
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GLARE
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LIMP
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PROMISING
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FASCINATION
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DEAFNESS
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DESPERATELY
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FRANTICALLY
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GRUMPY
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APPARENTLY
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NOTABLE
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BOUND TO BE
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DOUBT
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OVERSLEPT
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UNDERPAID
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FLUID
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TRIPLED
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STUNT
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HIJACKER
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