Participle Clauses- Personalised Sentence Completion Games

Participle clauses personalised sentence completion games

In pairs or small groups, do the activity or activities below that your teacher tells you to, each time using the same suggested sentence stems.

 

Participle clauses things in common

Choose a phrase from the next two pages and try to make a statement that is true for both of you, choosing another phrase if you can’ find anything in common.

 

Participle clauses sentence completion guessing game

On your own, fill in as many of the phrases on the next two pages as you can in ten minutes with your real experiences. Choose one of your statements and read out just the part that you wrote (not the printed part that was there before), and see if your partner can guess which sentence you put that information in.

 

Participle clauses bluffing game

Choose one of the sentence stems on the next two pages for your partner to use. They should complete the sentence as quickly as they can, using their imagination if they can’t think of anything true. Perhaps after asking follow-up questions, guess if that is their real experience or if they just made it up.

 

 

Sentences with participle clauses to complete with personal information

(Not) allowed __________________________, ______________________________.

 

(Not) having been ___________________, ____________________________________.

 

Encouraged/ Discouraged ___________________________, _____________________.

 

Having left ____________________________, _______________________________.

 

Heading __________________________________, _____________________________.

 

(Not) knowing ____________________, ______________________________________.

 

(Not) having lived ________________, ______________________________________.

 

(Having been) made to _________________________________, I never learnt to enjoy it.

 

Offered ______________________, ________________________________________.

 

Ordered (not) to ___________________________, _____________________________.

 

Praised for/ by __________________________, ___________________________.

 

(Not) realising ___________________________, ____________________________.

 

(Not) seeing _______________________________, ____________________________.

 

Shouting ___________________, __________________________________________.

 

(Not) having studied English for many years, _________________________________.

 

(Feeling/ Being) threatened (by ___________________), ________________________.

 

Having waited ________________, _________________________________________.

 

(Not) wanting to ________________, _________________________________________.

 

(Not) worried by __________________, ______________________________________.

 

Waiting _________________, ______________________________________________.

 

Working hard (___________________), ______________________________________.

 

Sentences to complete with participle clauses with personal information

_____________________________________________, I longed to get back there again.

 

_____________________________________________, I reached a high level of skill.

 

__________________________________________, I decided to give (it) up/ change (it).

 

________________________________________________________, I turned it down.

 

_______________________________________, I would recommend it to almost anyone.

 

___________________________________________, I suffered from serious stress.

 

__________________________________________________, I reluctantly accepted.

 

__________________________________________, I frightened it/ him/ her/ them (off).

 

_______________________________________________, I pretended not to see/ hear.

 

____________________________________________________, I got completely lost.

 

____________________________________________________, I got totally soaked.

 

_____________________________________________________, I made a complaint.

 

______________________________________________________, I refused to pay.

 

__________________________________________________, I have always avoided it.

 

______________________________________, I had to struggle to get where I am today.

 

_____________________________________________, I might have to get another job.

 

_____________________________________________________, I felt embarrassed.

 

_____________________________________________, I pretended not to understand.

 

____________________________________________________, I ignored him/ her/ it.

 

_____________________________________________, I realised how long it had been.

 

_______________________________________________, I didn’t do anything special.

 

_______________________, I wasn’t able to do my job as well as I would have liked.