⛩️ Class Activity Kit

Unit Core Vocabulary: artefact provenance excavation relic repatriation restitution custodian colonial plunder ancestral

1. 1

   Divide the room into teams of 3 or 4 learners and hand each team one blank Story Sheet.

2. 2

   Display or hand out the 6 Story Cards one by one, keeping the whole class moving on the clock.

3. 3

   Announce each round clearly: "Runner 1, write sentence 1! Use your card's exact grammar pattern."

4. 4

   Have teams swap their finished sheets with another team so student referees can tick and calculate scores.

5. 5

   Check contentious sentences against the Teacher Key on this guide to make quick, final decisions.

1. 1

   Your goal is to build a 6-sentence story describing Veshta village's quest to bring home its carved gate.

2. 2

   Pass the pen along your team: one person writes sentence 1, the next writes sentence 2, with no jumping turns.

3. 3

   Every sentence must fit its card's setup plot and obey the grammar rule shown inside the yellow pill.

4. 4

   Weave in official Unit vocabulary words to harvest bonus points for your team on every single line.

5. 5

   Exchange sheets at the final whistle: referee another team's work fairly and add up their total score!

Step 1

Hand out cards & assign team roles.

Step 2

Read Veshta case & plan your story.

Step 3

Write Cards 1 & 2 (Lost gate & Press).

Step 4

Write Cards 3 & 4 (Trains & Archives).

Step 5

Write Cards 5 & 6 (Delay & Signing).

Step 6

Swap sheets, peer score & declare winner.

Total Points Tally: ____ / 12 pts + bonus

Accurate Grammar Structure

Awarded if the sentence correctly forms the required target pattern (e.g., correct participle, no forbidden "with", or correct adjective placement).

Plot Fit (Setup Alignment)

Awarded if the sentence makes logical sense in the story and accurately reflects the event described on that round's card. Ticked by the referee team.

Unit Word Bonus

Awarded for each Unit vocabulary word used naturally in context (relic, provenance, plunder, custodian, ancestral, restitution, etc.).

Card 1

Card 2

Card 3

Card 4

Card 5

Card 6

✅ Model: "Veshta asked for its gate, only to learn that the museum had lost it."

⚠️ Mistake to hear: "...only to finding that the museum..." (use the base verb after only to).

✅ Model: "With the director refusing to answer, the villagers asked a newspaper for help."

⚠️ Mistake to hear: "With the director refused to answer..." (use -ing after the noun, not a past form).

✅ Model: "A date fixed, the villagers booked train tickets."

⚠️ Mistake to hear: "With a date fixed..." or "A date was fixed, the villagers..." (adding "with", or joining two full sentences with just a comma).

✅ Model: "With the records examined, experts agreed that the gate was taken without permission."

⚠️ Mistake to hear: "With the records examine..." or "With experts read the records..." (forgetting the -ed ending).

✅ Model: "With the director ill, the final meeting moved to next week."

⚠️ Mistake to hear: "With the director was ill..." (putting "was" after the noun).

✅ Model: "The papers signed, the gate went home."

⚠️ Mistake to hear: "With the papers signed..." or "Having signed the papers..." (the card says no "with", and the noun must be different from the main subject).

Provide the Sentence Starters already written on the Story Sheet. The runners only have to supply the second half of the sentence, focusing purely on completing the clause accurately.

Each team runner is required to incorporate at least two Unit vocabulary words into their single sentence without violating natural collocations or grammatical flow.

No team talking is allowed! Each runner has strictly 60 seconds at the table to read the previous sentence and produce the next sentence with zero verbal assistance.

Teams that finish early draft a two-sentence breaking news announcement for the village herald starting with a word like Seldom or Never (e.g., "Seldom has an ancestral relic returned with such public acclaim...").