Level: Intermediate +
Location: Classroom
Activity: Reading True/ False
Language: Narrative tenses

A post play activity. Learners read a short description of the story of Samorost and find ten false elements to the story.

Preparation
Play all of Samorost 2 part 1 with your class.
Download That's Not What Happened! and make a copy of the first page for each learner.

Play
1 Do Samorost 2 for Samorost.
2 Sit down and ask your learners what happens in the story. Go round the class telling the story.
3 Tell your class you have the story written down but with ten mistakes. Not grammar mistakes but things that didn't happen in the story

e.g.
Ask the class "Did the aliens take gnome's cat?". They should say "No!"

4 Hand out the story and let learners read the story, underline the mistakes and write the corrections on the right.
5 Learners compare with the person next to them.
6 Read out the story and get learners to call out "That's not what happened!" when you read a part of the story that is not true. They tell you the false element and tell you what did happen.

Post activity
Learners change three different elements in the story, take it in turns to read it to their partner who listens and calls out "That's not what happened!" when they say something untrue. Their partner then repeats the sentence but correcting it.