Thursday, November 11, 2010

MadLibs

Hi everybody.  Sorry I am falling behind =( Haven't been able to write in a while.  I've been doing service learning for a local middle school in an ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom.  The teacher let me come up with the lesson plans last week.  I taught them about action verbs, helping verbs, prepositions, and adverbs.  I made up my own mad libs for a fun activity after the lesson.  Check it out, here's the link:

http://www.wordlibs.com/genre/libs/index.phpstory=10308&name=Halloween+Surprise



If you go to the website http://www.wordlibs.com/  you can create your own mad libs with whatever type of grammar you are learning, you just have to come up with a story!  Write the story out however you want it to sound, for example:
"Once upon a time there was a Princess named Danielle.  She lived in a castle in a majestic land called Pomona.  She ate magic cinnamon apples for breakfast every morning..."  Then on the next page you can click on words and assign them labels, for example I could click on "majestic" and have it show up as a blank labeled "adjective" for somebody to fill in.  Sorry if this isn't making sense, just try it and you'll see what I mean! 

WARNING FOR TEACHERS:  Do not use the pre-made madlibs because ANYBODY can create the mad libs and some of them are very inappropriate.  ONLY create your own to share with your class =)

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