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[naturegirl321]

Does anyone have some good strip stories for beginners? or intermediate groups? Here are two, but they've been used tons of times with my students. I'm looking for new ideas.

Thanks

SandwichesTom, Dick, and Harry were sitting on the top of the Marriot Hotel. Their job was to repair the roof. It was lunchtime so they were taking a break.

Tom said, “I hate lunchtimes. It’s always sandwiches, sandwiches, sandwiches!And I bet it’s tuna again. If I look in my lunchbox and find tuna, I’ll jump!”

“Yeh, I know what you mean,” said Dick. “I always get cheese. If it’s cheese today, I’ll jump too.”

“Huh, you’re lucky,” said Harry. “Cheese and tuna? At least you don’t always get ham. If I find ham in my lunchbox again, I think I’ll jump as well.”

All three looked in their lunchboxes and found the sandwiches they didn’t like, so they all jumped off the Marriot and killed themselves. What a mess!

Two days later, the wives of the three men were standing at the graves crying.

“Oh!,” said Tom’s wife. “If only I had known Tom didn’t like tuna sandwiches, I would have made him something else.”

“Yes,” cried Dick’s wife. “If only I had known Dick hated cheese, I never would have given him that for lunch.”

“Mm, that’s funny,” said Harry’s wife. “Harry always made his own sandwiches.”

The laziest boyAn old man was walking along the road.

Suddenly he saw three boys laying on the grass under a tree.

He said, “I’ll give a gold coin to the laziest boy. Who is the laziest boy?”

The first boy jumped up, ran over to the old man and said,

“I’m the laziest boy. Give me the coin!”

The old man shook his head and said, “No you aren’t. Go lie down.”

The second boy reached out his hand and said, “I’m the laziest boy. Give me the coin.”

The old man shook his head again and said, “No you aren’t.”

The third boy said, “Please come over and put the coin in my pocket.”

“Yes,” said the old man. “You are the laziest boy!”

And he put the coin into the boy’s pocket.

[naturegirl321]

Sunaru,
I've got seven classes a week. Each are for at least 1.5 hours, twice a week. I've got three classes that meet every day and one that's three hours. they're all intensives, only for a summer. I've barely got time to think at school from 8 am to 9 pm for the summer only.

I've done strip stories before and they LOVe them, that's why I'm looking for more.

As for the discipline, I've straingtened them out. Set notes home to their parents and upbraided them in class and now they're sporting halos.

[Guest]

What exactly is a "strip story?"

A comic strip thing? Just a joke? I CAN'T TELL! Daaaaaaaaaarrrr...

[denise]

I believe a strip story is just a story, any ol' story, that you type up and then cut into strips. You give the students strips of paper with sentences or sentence fragments, and they have to put them in order.

[biffinbridge]

Talking of stripping..a few years ago me and a mate called El Cocko Grande went to a brilliant strip bar in Warsaw known to the initiated as 'The Bulgarian Embassy' and to the uninitiated as 'Sofia's'.Top night out....yeah...thoroughly recommend strip stories.