Story telling ELT games

In story telling ELT Games students have to invent stories.

Some of the objectives and procedures of the games in this article may overlap with those of other games included in other articles.

The elephant and the butcher
Objective. Improvisation in English.

Procedure. Teacher starts the story, “An elephant went into a butcher’s shop and ...” and calls on a student to supply the next sentence which s/he interrupts at a suitable point with any kind of linking word, e.g., but, so, because, etc. and calls on another student to continue the story and so on round the class.