Travel phrasal verbs storytelling card games
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Multiword verbs to describe journeys card games, starting with dominoes to make a model story, then combining verbs and particles to make their own tales.
Lesson Plan Content:
Travel phrasal verbs storytelling card games
Part One: Travel phrasal verbs story dominoes
Put the travel story domino cards next to each other to make sentences about a journey.
Hint 1: The cards should make a circle
Hint 2: If you read the whole story from the bus stop, the whole story should make sense together and it should make one circular story that goes on forever
Check your answers as a class or with the suggested answers.
Ask about anything you don’t understand, think could go together a different way, etc.
Brainstorm phrasal verbs connected to travel, look at the cards for ideas, brainstorm more, then compare your ideas as a class.
Part Two: Travel phrasal verbs storytelling card game
Deal out the single word cards. Take turns continuing the story of a journey or a trip that starts “Jane set off at six o’clock in the morning”, using the words on both kinds of your cards if you can. If you can use a word or two words in the right way, you can put those cards on the table and score one point for each card. As well as in travel phrasal verbs, you can use the words in any other way which is correct, e.g. different phrasal verbs or two different phrases. If you can’t use any cards, continue the story with at least one sentence of any kind you like, then it is the next person’s turn.
The winner is the person who has discarded most cards when you reach the end of the story or the teacher stops the game.
Cards to cut up/ Suggested answers
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off at the bus stop just outside my house. I waited twenty minutes at the stop and finally got
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on the bus to the town centre just as a huge traffic jam was starting. The bus was held
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up by all the cars on the road, so I got
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off two stops early and asked my biker friend to pick me
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up. He quickly rode his motorcycle through the traffic towards me but then remembered he didn’t have his extra helmet, so he had to turn
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back and ride home just before he got
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to where I was waiting for him. I waved a taxi down and got
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in the back seat, but its engine overheated in the heavy traffic and it broke
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down halfway across a bridge. Because the whole bridge was blocked by my cab, a helicopter lifted it off. Luckily, I managed to jump in the chopper just as it was taking
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off from the bridge. It flew quickly across the water and across town, but unfortunately it dropped me
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(go back to the start of the story at the top)
Verb cards
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break
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break
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break
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check
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check |
check |
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drop
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drop
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drop
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get
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get
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get
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go
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go |
go |
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hold
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hold
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hold
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hurry
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hurry |
hurry |
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pack
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pack
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pack |
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pick
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pick
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pick
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set
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set |
set
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stop
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stop |
stop |
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take
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take
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take
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turn
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turn
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turn |
Particle cards (prepositions/ adverbs)
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away
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away
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back
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back
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by
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by
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down
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down
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in
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in
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off
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off
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on
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on
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out
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out
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over
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over
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to
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to
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up
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up
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