Pictures and Stories

Lay some picture on the table in front of the students and read them or make them read a piece of a story (which has to be related to the pictures). Students continue the story by choosing from the pictures, continuing until they bring the story to a conclusion with the very last picture. To make the use of Past Perfect higher, allow them to add pictures to earlier in the story with phrases like “By the time he ...”. You can play the same game with other kinds of story such as murders and spy stories (crime vocabulary), science fiction or love stories. If you can’t find suitable pictures, students can play the same game with relevant words on cut up pieces of paper.