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At the Park

This Mad Libs story will allow you

This pack includes:
to practise some of the features of • A revision sheet with definitions
grammar you have learnt. Fill the gaps of the grammatical elements
with grammatical features to complete needed for this story
a strange story guaranteed to make
• A blank grammatical
you smile!
features grid to fill in

• A story with gaps to fill in

Instructions:
There are two ways to play this game…

1. Choose a ‘storyteller’, who will read the story quietly to themselves, but
will stop at each gap and ask the other players in turn to give a suggestion
which matches the type of word or phrase required. The storyteller writes
the word or phrase into the story and continues until all the gaps are
filled. Then, they read the completed story out loud. Cue laughter!

2. Give each player a copy of the blank grammatical features grid

and ask them to choose examples to complete the grid. When all
players have finished their grids, give them a copy of the story so
they can fill the gaps in and read them out. Cue laughter!

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Grammatical Features Revision Sheet
Examples in
Part of Speech Definition Examples
a sentence
river, computer, tiger, He lives with his dog
noun The name of a thing.
apple, motorcycle on a boat.

More than one pencils, wombats, The cars went past

plural noun
of a thing. houses, sheep the mountains.
The name of a
After living in Egypt
particular person or Sophia,
proper noun for ten years, Helen
place, spelled with a Cambridge, France
returned to Spain.
capital letter.
A word that yellow, ancient, The pizza was large,
adjective
describes a noun. enormous, ornate hot and delicious.
I swim every week.
Action or have, is, read, eat,
verb Dave ate his lunch.
state of being. jump, walk, dance
She is reading.
A word that quickly, eagerly, He put up his hand
adverb
describes a verb. kindly, accurately instantly.

Type of Sentence Definition Examples

What is the most common

A sentence that asks you
question eye colour?
something.
Who ate all the biscuits?
A sentence that tells someone to
Tie your shoelaces.
command do something. It begins with an
Tidy your room.
imperative verb.
The solar system contains
A sentence that tells you a fact, eight planets.
statement
opinion or idea. We didn’t go on holiday
last year.
An exclamation can be said
How kind you are!
with anger, shock or surprise. It
exclamation What a great
begins with ‘What’ or ‘How’ and
footballer she is!
ends with an exclamation mark.
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Grammatical Features Grid

Number Grammatical Feature Your Choice

1 proper noun

2 verb ending in -ing

3 adverb

4 noun

5 plural noun

6 adjective

7 question

8 adjective

9 command

10 adverb

11 verb ending in -ing

12 exclamation

13 adverb

14 verb ending in -ed

15 noun

16 adjective

17 statement

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It was a beautiful day. Anika and her mum sat on the grass in
1. Proper noun
Park, watching the ducks on the
2. verb ending in -ing 3. adverb
pond. The felt warm.
4. noun

A van was selling over by the playground. Anika was

5. plural noun
finishing the last few pages of a really book.
6. adjective

“ ?” Anika asked, but

7. question
her mum had fallen asleep.

After a while, she got bored and decided to go and look at the
8. adjective
ducks. A few geese on the path hissed at her as she went past.

“ !” said Anika, sticking her tongue out at

9. command
them, but they didn’t move.

, the van by the playground started .

10. adverb 11. verb ending in -ing

“ !” thought Anika. Then she saw

12. exclamation
that the noise had woken her mum up, and she was waving for Anika to come back.

As Anika back
13. adverb 14. verb ending in -ed
across to where her mum was, a ran across in front of her
15. noun
and tripped her up. Her hands and knees were all and dirty.
16. adjective

“Oh dear,” said her mum, “ .

17.statement
I think it’s time to go home, don’t you?”

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