Participle Clauses- Storytelling Game
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Students use their imaginations and suggested past participles and present participles to tell a story about someone's crazy day, with an optional competitive version and grammar presentation.
Lesson Plan Content:
Participle clauses storytelling game
Use as many of the participle clauses on the cards as you can while you continue a story starting “John’s working week started unbelievably badly”. The verbs can also be used with subjects, with auxiliary verbs, etc, but try to use them just as participle clauses too (without subjects, etc).
When your teacher tells you to, try to bring the story to a close (without necessarily using all of the cards). If you are scoring, the person who used the most cards as participle clauses wins. Then ask about any cards you couldn’t use.
What are the differences between present participles and past participles and how they are used?
Cards to cut up or tick off as you use them in a story
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Arriving
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(Not) being
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Being late
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Blocked
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Discouraged
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Encouraged
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(Not) feeling
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Finding
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Forced to
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Giving up on
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Having attempted
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(Not) having been
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Having failed
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(Not) (having been) given
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(Not) knowing
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Having left
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(Not) noticing
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Informed
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(Not) managing
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Needing
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Offered
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Offering
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Ordered/ Commanded
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Praised
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Prevented
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(Not) realising
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Searching
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(Not) seeing
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Standing
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Stressed
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Taking
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Trying
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Having waited
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Wanting to
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Not wanting to
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Worried |
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