No prep

Story Chain

The class builds a story one sentence at a time, each student adding to what came before. Great for creative writing and ESL speaking practice.

How to play Story Chain

Give an opening line, such as "On the first day of school, the classroom door would not open..."
The next student adds one sentence.
Continue around the room. Each sentence must connect to the last.
The final student must give the story an ending.
Optionally, write the story down and illustrate it later.

Grammar version: every sentence must use past tense or a vocabulary word from the list.
Fortunately/unfortunately: sentences alternate between good and bad news.

Keep playing

Review games

Students act out a word or phrase without speaking while their team guesses.

Icebreakers

Students choose three items they would bring to a desert island and justify their picks.

Review games

Teams solve a chain of puzzles built from your unit content to unlock the final "lock" before time runs out.

Review games

A quiz-show board of categories and point values where teams pick a square and answer the question behind it.

Review games

Students search the room for hidden clues or items, answering questions to unlock the next clue.

End of year

A sentence turns into a drawing, then a sentence, then a drawing, as papers pass around a group.