迷你教室：與布蘭迪女士的神話般的瘋狂自由

In this class mini, students will get to play the classic game "Mad Libs" and have a blast creating their own hysterical and wacky stories while they review key grammar concepts, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, singular and plural, and verb tenses. We will begin by reviewing these concepts briefly, then we will start generating our story.

I will choose a story from the Mad Libs game. These are short, silly stories with blanks in them. These blanks are just labeled with parts of speech. To play, I will choose a story, but I will not initially tell them what it is about or read it to them. Instead, I'll call out the part of speech. For example, I may ask for a noun, a past tense verb, or an adjective. I will write the students' suggestions in the blanks. When all the blanks are full, I will read their story. The results are frequently hilarious and always surprising! A sample story from the Mad Libs book goes as follows:

Before Play (Students will not know what the story is about, and I will only read the words in the brackets to them):
"[exclamation]!" he said [adverb] as he jumped into his convertible [noun] and drove off with his [adjective] wife.

After Play (I will read the finished story to students):
"Ouch!" he said stupidly as he jumped into his convertible cat and drove off with  his brave wife.