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Ghosts Past Tense Grammar Game

This document provides instructions for a classroom game called "Ghosts" to practice using past tense verbs. The game involves dividing students into teams who take turns adding to a story using past tense verbs. If a team repeats a verb, makes a grammar mistake, takes too long, or uses an absurd sentence, they lose a life. The last team with lives remaining wins. The instructions explain how to set up the game with example stick figures on the board, how to divide students into teams, demonstrate sample rounds, and rules for losing lives.

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Ghosts Past Tense Grammar Game

This document provides instructions for a classroom game called "Ghosts" to practice using past tense verbs. The game involves dividing students into teams who take turns adding to a story using past tense verbs. If a team repeats a verb, makes a grammar mistake, takes too long, or uses an absurd sentence, they lose a life. The last team with lives remaining wins. The instructions explain how to set up the game with example stick figures on the board, how to divide students into teams, demonstrate sample rounds, and rules for losing lives.

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Ghosts- past tense grammar game

Ghosts is a brilliant high energy game perfect for practicing the past tense.
With a capable elementary or pre-intermediate class it can become something
quite special.

This team made 3 mistakes


This team have become ghosts. 1 Create 3 or 4 teams
They are out of the game.

2 Brainstorm 3 Have example round: 4 explain rules


Past Tense Verbs   A team loses a life if………
went First, he got out of bed.  * they repeat a verb
read Next, he brushed his teeth.   already used
said Then, he went for a run. * they make a grammar mistake
found After that, he had a shower. * they take too long
etc, etc Finally,  he ate breakfast. * they make a ridiculous sentence

Ghosts
 
 INTRO This is a communicative game for reviewing past tense.

STEP 1 Draw the above stick figures on the whiteboard. Each team has 3 lives.

STEP 2 Divide the class into teams.


There are three teams in my example. Brainstorm past tense verbs (get a lot).
Explain the rules on the right.
Model the exercise. The idea is that the first team starts with the word “First”,
the second team “Next”, the third team “Then” .
Return to the first for “After that” and the second for “Finally” and continue with each team making
past tense sentences
Every time you come round to “First” the story can start in a new situation.

STEP 3 The teams that lose three lives die and become ghosts. The last team alive is the winner.

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