TEACHER’S NOTES

It makes sense!
by Elena Filimonova, Aislyu Ryukova & Dina Valieva
FUN WITH IELTS TEACHER’S NOTES

Activity type: Storytelling class vote. (As an alternative, you could include
several categories to vote on, such as ‘most
Student grouping: Small groups of plausible’ or ‘funniest’ or ‘most creative’.)
four students
Time: 25 minutes approx. Teaching notes
Skills practiced: Listening comprehension, • In larger classes, the students could present
phonetic and memory training, storytelling, their stories within their groups, rather than to
production and accuracy the whole class.
Materials needed: One copy of the Student A,
B, C or D worksheets per group of four • This game can be played as a review or to
drill particular vocabulary; an optional blank
Summary: This writing and speaking game version of the worksheet has been included
stretches students’ thinking skills and can be for you to print out and write in your
used as a review or to practise reading and own questions.
listening comprehension.

Preparation
Explain to students that the aim of the game is to
tell a meaningful story that makes sense, based
on a random set of prompts.

Put students into groups of four (students A,

B, C and D). Give each student a copy of
their worksheet.

How to play the game

Ask students to read and follow the instructions

on their worksheet. They should work individually
to write full answers to each question.

When students have finished, collect in their

worksheets and cut up the six story cards along
the dotted lines, creating six piles of cards – a
pile for question 1, and so on. Shuffle each pile,
and then redistribute the cards so that each
student gets a new, random set of questions 1–6.

Give the students 5–10 minutes to think about

how to make a meaningful story out of the cards
they’ve been given. Tell them they are free to
add any information they need, but they cannot
change anything on the cards they have got.
This creates potentially amusing stories, while
stretching the student’s thinking skills.

Students should then present their stories to the

class, and the best one wins. The winner can
be decided either by the teacher, or through a
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It makes sense!
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Student A
FUN WITH IELTS WORKSHEET: STUDENT A

Write about your best holiday by answering the questions below (make sure you include linkers,
e.g. first, then, besides, however, etc).

1. Where did you go?

2. When did you go there?

3. What did you do?

4. Who was with you?

5. What did you feel?

6. How did this experience finish?

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Student B
FUN WITH IELTS WORKSHEET: STUDENT B

Write about your worst holiday by answering the questions below (make sure you include linkers,
e.g. first, then, besides, however, etc).

1. Where did you go?

2. When did you go there?

3. What did you do?

4. Who was with you?

5. What did you feel?

6. How did this experience finish?

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Student C
FUN WITH IELTS WORKSHEET: STUDENT C

Write about a time you were really scared by answering the questions (make sure you include linkers,
e.g. first, then, besides, however, etc).

1. Where did you go?

2. When did you go there?

3. What did you do?

4. Who was with you?

5. What did you feel?

6. How did this experience finish?

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Student D
FUN WITH IELTS WORKSHEET: STUDENT D

Write about a time you felt really excited by answering the questions (make sure you include linkers,
e.g. first, then, besides, however, etc).

1. Where did you go?

2. When did you go there?

3. What did you do?

4. Who was with you?

5. What did you feel?

6. How did this experience finish?

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Student ____
FUN WITH IELTS WORKSHEET: BLANK

Write about ____________________________________________________________ by answering

the questions (make sure you include linkers, e.g. first, then, besides, however, etc).

1. Where did you go?

2. When did you go there?

3. What did you do?

4. Who was with you?

5. What did you feel?

6. How did this experience finish?

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