Phrasal Verbs Storytelling activity

 In the book we follow phrasal verbs are divided by prepositions and I find it challenging to study/revise the verbs with almost nothing in common, but creating stories is a real life saver in this situation. Here is one I came up with.

1) First, introduce new phrasal verbs (we had verbs with ON). We did couple of activities from the book to make sure the meaning and the use are clear.

2) I prepared a story at home containing plenty of phrasal verbs ( I included some phrasal verbs we studied before)

Olivia woke up at 8 o'clock. She was late. She couldn't do it again. She wanted to turn up in time for the important meeting. Frankly, she didn't want to go because she didn't get on well with people from work. She got up quickly, put on some clothes, grabbed a sandwich from the kitchen and left her place. She made couple of steps from her house, when suddenly something small landed at her feet. She screamed and looked at it. It was a flower pot. Somebody must have thrown it out of the window.  Olivia picked it up. She liked plants because she grew up on the farm. She looked up but all the windows were closed so she couldn't find a person who did it.She wanted to carry on walking but wasn't able to do it. She was no longer hurrying up to work. Olivia said "Hold on" to the plant and went back home. There she put the flower on her sink and replanted it. Next day she went to a community college and took up a course in biology. She's going to be a farmer!

 I drew some marvelous illustrations to the story.

3) In  class distribute the pictures and encourage predictions. Then read the story to the class, ask sts to listen carefully and number pictures in the correct order. After that they have to assign a phrasal verb to each picture. You may want to read the story again.

4) After we checked the order and the verbs, I asked them to work in pairs and try to remember my story with as many details as possible. Then have a brainstorm session with the whole class.
5) Now the fun part. Ask students to work in pairs and on the basis of the pictures create a new story. They can use them in any order they want. Give some time to plan it. Then ask them to use 6 phrasal verbs in their story (by this time, we'd had a list of phrasal verbs on the board that we studied in this course). Monitor the accuracy of phrasal verbs use.
6) Sts write their story down but put the gaps in places where phrasal verbs are supposed to be. Then they exchange stories and try to figure out which phrasal verbs are missing. Having done that, they read their stories out loud and check the verbs the put in.
7) After that its time for teacher's feedback.

This activity turned out unexpectedly well and kept everyone in the class engaged. Hope you enjoy it too!