4 Carol and Ted

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4 Carol and Ted
Activity
Groupwork. Storytelling.
Focus
Past simple and past continuous verbs.
Preparation
• If you have sixteen students in your class photocopy one
picture story and cut it up into sixteen separate pictures.
• If you have between nine and fifteen students in your
class, leave out any of the following pictures so that you
still have one picture per student: 1, 2, 5, 9, 12, 15, 16.
• If you have more than sixteen students, divide the class
into smaller groups to do the task separately.
• If you have fewer than nine students cut up the story so
that some students will get two pictures rather than one
(e.g. pictures 1 and 2).
You may also want to copy one complete picture story for
everyone (to use in the writing task at the end).
Procedure
• Explain that you have a picture story about a woman
called Carol and a man called Ted. Ask them to quickly
guess what the story could be about.
• Explain that you have divided the story into separate
pictures. Stress that the story shows something that
happened last Tuesday (to encourage past verb use).
• Hand out the pictures, emphasizing that they must be kept
secret. Students should not show their picture to anyone
else.
• Ask students to stand up and mingle – i.e. walk around
talking with people. Their task is to try to work out the
original story by deciding the correct sequence of the
pictures.
• At the end, ask students to stand in order and tell the story
picture by picture. Encourage students to take care with
past verbs. (N.B. Picture 16 could arguably go in many
different places.)
• (Optional) You could give out a copy of the whole picture
story to everyone. You could follow up by asking students
to write the story. Encourage students to make it more
interesting e.g. by using conjunctions, by adding more
details about people’s appearance, the café, by adding
dialogue, etc.
Suggested answer
The story could be told as follows:
1 Last Tuesday Carol was shopping in town. She was
walking along the High Street.
2 Carol felt hungry. She looked at the menu in the café
window. She decided to go in.
3 Carol ordered a large meal. She ate it slowly.
4 Ted was sitting at another table. He saw Carol and
thought that she was very beautiful.
5 Carol finished her meal and paid her bill.
6 She got up and left the café.
7 Suddenly Ted noticed that Carol’s bag was still on
the table.
8 He picked it up and ran out of the café after her.
9 Unfortunately Carol was already getting into her car.
10 Ted ran up behind her but he was too late. Carol drove
away. Poor Ted! He was exhausted!
11 Ted looked in Carol’s handbag and found an envelope
with her address.
12 Ted caught a bus …
13 … and finally arrived at Carol’s house. He rang the
doorbell.
14 Carol answered the door and Ted gave her the bag. She
was very pleased.
15 Carol saw that Ted was very tired. She invited him
to come inside and have some tea.
16 Everyone was happy … except the waiter at the
café. Where did that man go?