Q1.
The teacher starts a story with one sentence. Each student adds a sentence to continue the story.
For example:
Teacher: “Once upon a time, a boy found a magic key.”
Student 1: “The key opened a door to a secret garden.”
Student 2: “In the garden, he saw a talking rabbit.”
Answer
How to play this game:
- Sit in a circle so that everyone can hear everyone else.
- The teacher says the first sentence. Listen to it carefully.
- Each child adds one sentence — not two, not half a sentence.
- Your sentence must join on to the sentence just before yours. Never start a brand-new story of your own.
- Speak loudly and slowly, so the next child knows exactly what to build on.
- Keep going round the circle until everyone has had a turn.
What makes a good sentence in this game: it is short; it adds one new thing (a person, a place, a problem or a surprise); and it leaves the door open for the next child. A sentence like “Then everybody went home and slept” closes the story and spoils the next turn.
Sample answer — one full round in a classroom:
Teacher: “Once upon a time, a boy found a magic key.”
Student 1: “The key opened a door to a secret garden.”
Student 2: “In the garden, he saw a talking rabbit.”
Student 3: “The rabbit said that the garden had not seen rain for ten years.”
Student 4: “It asked the boy to find the old well behind the neem tree.”
Student 5: “The boy walked to the well, but it was covered with a heavy stone.”
Student 6: “He pushed the stone with all his strength, and it rolled away.”
Student 7: “A cloud came out of the well and floated up into the sky.”
Student 8: “Very soon, big drops of rain began to fall on the dry garden.”
Student 9: “The flowers opened one by one, and the rabbit began to dance.”
Student 10: “The boy put the key back in his pocket and promised to come again.”
Student 1: “The key opened a door to a secret garden.”
Student 2: “In the garden, he saw a talking rabbit.”
Student 3: “The rabbit said that the garden had not seen rain for ten years.”
Student 4: “It asked the boy to find the old well behind the neem tree.”
Student 5: “The boy walked to the well, but it was covered with a heavy stone.”
Student 6: “He pushed the stone with all his strength, and it rolled away.”
Student 7: “A cloud came out of the well and floated up into the sky.”
Student 8: “Very soon, big drops of rain began to fall on the dry garden.”
Student 9: “The flowers opened one by one, and the rabbit began to dance.”
Student 10: “The boy put the key back in his pocket and promised to come again.”
Why this game is good practice: You cannot plan your sentence in advance, because you do not know what the child before you will say. So you must listen first and speak second — which is exactly what good speaking is.