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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.

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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

 

Arriving

 

 

(Not) being

 

 

Being late

 

 

Blocked

 

 

Discouraged

 

 

Encouraged

 

 

(Not) feeling

 

 

Finding

 

 

Forced to

 

 

Giving up on

 

 

Having attempted

 

 

(Not) having been

 

 

Having failed

 

 

(Not) (having been) given

 

 

(Not) knowing

 

 

Having left

 

 

(Not) noticing

 

 

Informed

 

 

(Not) managing

 

 

Needing

 

 

Offered

 

 

Offering

 

 

Ordered/ Commanded

 

 

Praised

 

 

Prevented

 

 

(Not) realising

 

 

Searching

 

 

(Not) seeing

 

 

Standing

 

 

Stressed

 

 

Taking

 

 

Trying

 

 

Having waited

 

 

Wanting to

 

 

Not wanting to

 

 

Worried

 

 

 

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