Sentence Strips
Step 1. Give the students pictures of the events that they have to organize on the
timeline.
Step 2. Provide time for the students to organize the pictures according to the
sequence of events.
Step 3. Ask the students to brainstorm words or phrases (for beginner students),
phrases or sentences (for intermediate students) and complete sentences (for
advanced students), to write on the sentence strips.
Step 4. Students match pictures with sentence strips and tell the sequence of events
to a partner.
Step 5. Students write the sequence of events in sentences or in paragraphs
according to the English level of proficiency of each student.