Teaching Tip

Level: Intermediate

Purpose: This activity can help students to develop their creativity in making up
stories/ answer the questions and practice writing skills/ speaking skills in the
target language.

Preparation and Materials: Print out 4 pictures and 4 vocabulary sheets of paper
to them.

Procedure: (1) Ask students enter the room, divide them into four groups by
counting (1,2,3,4). (5 minutes)
(2) Hand out pictures and vocabularies to each group and tell them to
make up a story by using some of those vocabularies and underline
those words. Explain unknown words’ meanings. (5-10 minutes)
(3)Write down your stories on sheets of paper. Your stories should
include at least 10 sentences. (20-25 minutes)
(4) Pin the pictures on the board and read your stories one by one.
(20-25 min)
(5) Ask questions to each group: (12 minutes)
-How many words did you underline?
-Which words from vocabularies did you use?
(6) Next, Ask: Which story did you like the most? Give feedbacks to
their works. (15-20 minutes)

Variations: (1) Pin 4 pictures and write down the vocabularies on the board.
(2) Ask each word’s meaning to be sure if students understand all
words. (10-15 minutes)
(3) Tell them to answer the questions (questions are printed out) by
using some of those vocabularies. (pair work) preparation (5 minutes)
+ (20-25 minutes)
(4) Provide with feedback. (10-15 minutes)

There are words, pictures and questions in this website.

https://www.eslflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Telling_stories.pdf
Level: Beginner

Purpose: Buzz is an excellent game for younger kids who need to recite long lists
such as a series of numbers, letters of the alphabet, and days of the month.
Number of players: Ten or more

Preparation and Materials: a series of numbers, letters of the alphabet or days of

the month.
Time: 20-30 minutes
1. Procedure: Pick a series that you want the kids to list out – numbers from
one to 100, prime numbers, or any other series of words or numbers they have
access to.
2. Decide what the buzz word or number is going to be. For instance, you can
decide that every fourth number or letter is going to be the buzz word. You
could also choose words starting with a specific letter or numbers divisible by
a particular number.
3. The word ‘buzz’ will replace the figures or letters.
4. Get the kids to start reading the items on the list or the series in order, while
replacing the chosen letter number with buzz.
For example: 1, 2, 3, buzz, 5, 6, 7, buzz, 9,10,11, buzz…
Anyone who misses replacing the buzz word or number is out of the game.

Variations: 1) You can replace a series of numbers, letters of the alphabet, and
days of the month with a list of irregular verbs for Pre-Intermediate
level.
For example: get-got-got, begin-began-begun, buzz…
2) You can replace the word ‘buzz’ with the word which starts from
the last letter for Beginner level.
For example: A,B,C, cat, D,E,F, frog, G,H,I, iron,…