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Getting Ready to Write A Story

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Level: All

Age: All

Target Language : Narrative Tenses, Adjectives to describe emotions, feelings, etc.                               

Give each student a handout with the chart below.

Play the sound effects you chose

Ask the students to fill in the following chart

What do you see?  
What do you hear?  
What do you feel?  
What do you taste?  
What do you smell?  

When your students finish completing their charts, ask them to share with their friends.

Remind them how we can start to write a first paragraph of a story. ( how we set the scene, etc)

Optional: you can ask your students to draw the scene based on their chart.

Then tell students to write an introduction paragraph for a short story or a novel.

You can download free sound effects

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Eva Buyuksimkesyan grammar games, tenses, time clauses

Grammar Games ~Time Clause Game

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This can be played either with past and future time clauses.

Prepare cards. Choose two different colors for the cards. Say pink and yellow. On pink cards, write an activity such as wash the dishes, make the bed, etc.

On yellow cards write a conjunction that is used in time clauses.

Divide the class into two.

Explain the students that they have to choose two pink cards and a yellow card and make a correct sentence.

Draw a tic-tac-toe grid on the board and play the game.

Alternatively you can pass the pink cards and ask your students to write activities on the cards.

 

Drink coffee

 

 

 

 

 Leave the house After

 
Run two hours

 

 

 

 Collapsed Because

 
Take the medicine

 

 

 

 Feel better The moment
Arrive home Make a salad While

 

 

 
Get back home Sleep When

 

 

 
Feel ill Eat all the chocolate As soon as

 

 

 

 
Wash the dishes

 

 

 

 Watch the movie Before
Wait at the bus stop

 

 

 

 Come Until