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1. Interactive Story-Telling
For
Brain-friendly Exam Preparation.

2. This presentation will show fun, creative ways to help
students learn phrasal verbs and other language chunks
through comic stories, interactive quizzes, and story-
telling prompts. It will also show how to weave them into
the types of grammatical -lexical transformation
exercises you find in English exams for First certificate,
Advanced and Proficiency levels.
This presentation will show fun, creative ways
to help students learn phrasal verbs and
other language chunks through comic stories,
interactive quizzes, and story-telling
prompts. It will also show how to weave them
into the types of grammatical -lexical
transformation exercises you find in English
exams for First certificate, Advanced and
Proficiency levels.

3. 1) The problem with phrasal verbs.
2) The problem with lists.
3) Multi-media fun.
4) The importance of context.
5) Eliciting meaning with the right questions.
6) Personalising phrasal verbs.
7) Creative ownership of the language.
8) Practice and repetition.
9) Tools, apps and quizzes.
10) Making exam questions meaningful and intuitive.

4. This presentation will show fun, creative ways to help
students learn phrasal verbs and other language chunks
through comic stories, interactive quizzes, and story-
telling prompts. It will also show how to weave them into
the types of grammatical -lexical transformation
exercises you find in English exams for First certificate,
Advanced and Proficiency levels.
WAKE
..UP!!!!

5. This presentation will show fun, creative ways to help
students learn phrasal verbs and other language chunks
through comic stories, interactive quizzes, and story-
telling prompts. It will also show how to weave them into
the types of grammatical -lexical transformation
exercises you find in English exams for First certificate,
Advanced and Proficiency levels.
Have you ever felt like you’re
getting nowhere on a dreaded
treadmill of boredom?

6. This presentation will show fun, creative ways to help
students learn phrasal verbs and other language chunks
through comic stories, interactive quizzes, and story-
telling prompts. It will also show how to weave them into
the types of grammatical -lexical transformation
exercises you find in English exams for First certificate,
Advanced and Proficiency levels.

12. Once students see
the phrasal verbs in
context, we must
elicit meaning
and get them
thinking so that
the new phrases
become part of
their mental
language map.

13. 1)What does Super Gran like to do before she goes out?
2) Why do you think she likes to do this?
3) What would happen if she didn’t do this?
(elicit possible meanings for ‘rush out’…….)
4) Super Gran thinks it’s a bad idea to hurry and not take care
of her appearance. Do you agree with this?
5) Do you ever rush out, and if you do, what happens?
6) Do you forget things or wear your shirt on back to front?
7) Think of a time you rushed out and tell the class about it.
Describe anything funny, embarrassing or ridiculous that
happened.

14. 1) Why did the police take away Super Gran’s licence?
2) Do your teachers ever take away your mobile phone in
class?
3) What would happen if they didn’t take away your
phones?
4) Do you think that teachers should or shouldn’t take
away your phones?
5) What would you do if you saw a baby about to eat
something dangerous?

15. Different ways to look at phrasal verbs.
1) Randomly through story-telling, movie clips, songs and
according to lists in course books.
2) Phrasal family groups on mind maps, stories, word clouds,
etc.
3) Phrasals with multiple meanings.
For me I use approach number one if I have to cover what’s
in the unit, approaches two and three for revision,
recycling, fluency, memory work and test practice.

16. Sometimes the
right movie clip
says it all…..
RUSH
OUT!!!!

17. Different ways to look at phrasal verbs.
1) Randomly through story-telling, movie clips, songs and
according to lists in course books.
2) Phrasal family groups on mind maps, stories, word clouds,
etc.
3) Phrasals with multiple meanings.
For me I use approach number one if I have to cover what’s
in the unit, approaches two and three for revision,
recycling, fluency, memory work and test practice.

18. Different ways to look at phrasal verbs.
1) Randomly through story-telling, movie clips, songs and
according to lists in course books.
2) Phrasal family groups on mind maps, stories, word clouds,
etc.
3) Phrasals with multiple meanings.
For me I use approach number one if I have to cover what’s
in the unit, approaches two and three for revision,
recycling, fluency, memory work and test practice.

19. Sometimes the
right movie clip
says it all…..
RUSH
OUT!!!!

20. Sometimes the
right movie clip
says it all…..
RUSH
OUT!!!!
Click here
for the
quiz

21. Sometimes the
right movie clip
says it all…..
RUSH
OUT!!!!
Other quiz tools, apps and environments.
Quizlet Club EFL
More
quiz
tools

22. Sometimes the
right movie clip
says it all…..
RUSH
OUT!!!!
Other quiz tools
Quizlet Club EFL
More
quiz
tools

23. Sometimes the
right movie clip
says it all…..
RUSH
OUT!!!!
Other quiz tools
Quizlet Club EFL
More
quiz
tools
Bitstrips apps on facebook are created
automatically.
You can add your own captions and bubbles
or you and your students
can use the images you get and create
stories around with
story with phrasal verbs you are learning.
Having simple images as hooks to generate
Diverse associations with phrasal verbs is
very creative in many ways indeed.

24. Sometimes the
right movie clip
says it all…..
RUSH
OUT!!!!
Other quiz tools
Quizlet Club EFL
More
quiz
tools
Makebeliefscomix apps.
Simple comic styles for practising
phrasal verbs, personalising your
story through character
development and
Learning more about language and
self-expression.
Makebeliefcomix website

25. Sometimes the
right movie clip
says it all…..
RUSH
OUT!!!!
Other quiz tools
Quizlet Club EFL
More
quiz
tools
Makebeliefscomix apps.
Simple comic styles for practising
phrasal verbs, personalising your
story through character
development and
Learning more about language and
self-expression.
Makebeliefcomix website
Transforming transformations
Key word transformations almost always
have phrasal verbs and expressions tied into
the grammatical transformation. It’s important to
have students using these structures with phrasal verbs
before they ever have to face them in practice
test conditions or even before they know that
they are part of testing.

26. Sometimes the
right movie clip
says it all…..
RUSH
OUT!!!!
Other quiz tools
Quizlet Club EFL
More
quiz
tools
Makebeliefscomix apps.
Simple comic styles for practising
phrasal verbs, personalising your
story through character
development and
Learning more about language and
self-expression.
Makebeliefcomix website
Transforming transformations
We can:
1) Put well-known structures into comic strips.
Example so/such/tenses etc.
2) A great way to do this is to put the sentence structures
into caption boxes and then add blank speech bubbles.
Students can then be asked to fill in the story using certain
phrasal verbs but all based on their own imaginations. These can be
done as whole class collaborative stories until they are able to
create their own.
3) After wards teacher can take their stories and

27. Different ways to look at phrasal verbs.
1) Randomly through story-telling, movie clips, songs and
according to lists in course books.
2) Phrasal family groups on mind maps, stories, word clouds,
etc.
3) Phrasals with multiple meanings.
For me I use approach number one if I have to cover what’s
in the unit, approaches two and three for revision,
recycling, fluency, memory work and test practice.
Transformation link
Exam English link.
She was so disgusted with
his behaviour that she …….

28. Sometimes the
right movie clip
says it all…..
RUSH
OUT!!!!
Other quiz tools
Quizlet Club EFL
More
quiz
tools
Makebeliefscomix apps.
Simple comic styles for practising
phrasal verbs, personalising your
story through character
development and
Learning more about language and
self-expression.
Makebeliefcomix website
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