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Dream World

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Dream World
In this group activity, students practice making past continuous sentences from pictures.
They also write a story about a dream using the past continuous tense along with words and
expressions used in stories.

Before class, make one copy of the worksheet for every three to four students. Cut the
pictures out as indicated.

Procedure

Begin the activity by reviewing the past continuous tense. Divide the class into groups of
three or four and give each group a set of picture cards. Tell the students to shuffle their
cards and deal them out. Each student should place their cards face down in a pile in front of
them.

Write the following on the board: What were you doing at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon?

The first student in each group starts by asking the second student the question on the
board. The second student picks up the top card from their pile and responds according to
the picture on the card by thinking of an activity associated with it.

Example: Picture of a door

I was painting a door.

I was fixing a door.
I was drawing a picture of a door.

The second student then asks the third student the question on the board, and so on, until
all the cards have been used. Encourage the students to be imaginative in their answers.

When the groups have finished the review, write the following text on the board:

I was watching TV late one night, when I fell asleep and had a strange dream. In the dream I
was... (Where were you? What were you doing?)

All of a sudden... (What happened?)

Then, to my surprise... (What happened next?)

Unfortunately... (What happened?)

In the end... (What happened in the end?)

Tell the groups that they are going to write a story of a dream by completing the text above
using mostly the past continuous tense. Appoint one student in each group to do the writing.
Tell them to shuffle all their picture cards and spread them out, face down. Each student
chooses three pictures and turns them over so that they are face up.

Explain that each group must include these pictures in their dream, in any order they
choose. Now the students are ready to write the story of a dream. Set a time limit for groups
to write their stories.

When all the groups have finished, ask the students to read out their dreams to the class.
After the groups have finished reading their stories, have the class vote for the strangest or
funniest one.
Written by Paul Adams for Teach-This.com ©20I5