Characters
Created by Mark Warner - Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers -
1 / tiger / headmaster with a secret / a man who lives forever / a small monkey / a child who is always grumbling / a giant snake / a girl with X-ray eyes / an enormous werewolf / a blind beggar
2 / an abandoned baby / an injured bird / the last of the pirates / children from the future / a living statue / a screaming ghost / a flying worm / a living shadow / the oldest woman in the world
3 / the cheerful puppet / monster in the swimming pool / giant spiders / a secret agent / a mad professor / a swarm of bees / a wounded shark / the abominable snowman / an Egyptian mummy
4 / the artist who painted the future / the best fisherman in the world / a knight in shining armour / an octopus / a security guard / a police inspector / a truly remarkable grandfather / the driver of a train / the owner of a huge ship
5 / a team of mountain climbers / the richest man in the world / a dwarf / a cat burglar / an amazing animal trainer / a school bully / a mysterious newcomer / a slave / a computer nerd
6 / a gold prospector / a very lonely child / a powerful black witch / a great inventor / a man on the run / a war hero / a boy who liked to dream / a lighthouse keeper / a creepy reporter
7 / a surgeon with an iron hand / a robot / a castaway / a very small man / a miser / an airline hijacker / a top security prisoner / a drunk / a newspaper reporter
8 / a talking cat / a shapeless creature of the dark / the enthusiastic salesman / a mind traveller / the prince of the gypsies / two terrified lions / a tribe of Eskimos / Thundermen from Mars / a circus clown
9 / burglars / a giant baby / a one-armed teacher / a mounted policeman / the strongest man in the world / a slime monster / a master of disguise / a top class stuntman / the man who held the world to ransom
Places
Created by Mark Warner - Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers -
1 / hall of mirrors / a ghost town / a mysterious lighthouse / the stone circle / land of fire / a very deep well / the haunted house / a monster fun-fair / an underground city
2 / a deserted beach / the lost submarine / the back of a sea monster / a rocky underground passage / the desert / the middle of a maze / a bridge over a waterfall / the lost island / a prison cell
3 / where everyone is weightless / the wall of ooze / a burning building / the house of no escape / a secret panel / an attic in a big old house / a creepy church / a tunnel / a time warp
4 / behind a waterfall / a chair lift over a glacier / a poisonous river / at a cross-roads / down a mine / a prehistoric sea bed / inside a pyramid / in the middle of nowhere / a ruined monastery
5 / outer space / a damp dungeon / the throne room of a great palace / the main sewer / the parachute bay of a war plane / the bottom of a ravine / the den of a polar bear / an underground defence network / a rocket launcher
6 / moon base / optics room of a secret telescope / a minefield / a cryogenic chamber / the belly of a whale / the Tower of London / an old gas works / inside a huge deep freeze / a rugged mountain pass
7 / a medieval castle / flight of uneven steps / a clay pit / enemy territory / an air raid shelter / deep in the woods / a crypt / a secret garden / a space station
8 / an Egyptian tomb / a wildlife park / in a monorail train / in a joke shop / a circus / a junk yard / the second hand shop / across the border / a holiday camp
9 / an amusement arcade / a snake pit / the top of a tall building / long stretch of golden sand / the biggest school in the world / a famous landmark / an operating theatre / a chapel of rest / a gypsy caravan
Situations
Created by Mark Warner - Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers -
1 / all war must stop / a bath / turning into another creature / in a school that vanished / a wedding / the last train home / a lost ship / fireballs from space / a warning
2 / trapped at the bottom of the earth / the genie's visit / bomb sent to destroy Earth / a mummy comes to life / a hurricane / Battle of the Gods / a fifty fifty chance / entombed / a car race through flames
3 / a strange light shining / a last hope / a ship wreck / becoming a member of a club / two more days to live / pictures come to life / encounter with a shark / a plague of flies / invasions of the earth
4 / a creature rolling downstairs / a door that leads to the future / alone on a strange planet / having plastic surgery / a trap / a runaway train / a vague red mist / discovery in the woods / a terrible nightmare
5 / a man jumping off the Empire State building / turning into a grown up / the curse / someone screaming for help / the erupting volcano / a fight for your life / glowing eyes with no body / sinking / REVENGE
6 / we have to amputate / becoming huge / trapped in quick sand / the day the world began / a stampeding elephant / the wedding of a ghost / trapped with the waters rising / finding buried treasure / finding a secret passage
7 / animals against humans / lost in a thick fog / a lost tribe / face to face with a monster / ESCAPE! / tracking down a thief / having to prove yourself / journey into the unknown / KIDNAPPED!
8 / deserted by your friends / finding a flying saucer / going where you're not allowed / doing what you shouldn't / being a favourite / crossing an ocean / caught in the act / losing your identity / finding treasure
9 / ordeal of hunger and thirst / becoming very tiny / sharing the blame / passing through a mirror / BETRAYED / losing your memory / a case of body snatching / looking exactly like someone else / organising a jail break
Objects
Created by Mark Warner - Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers -
1 / a cat's eye / the steel claw / a hand print in the paint / the golden amulet / a tape recording / an ivory tusk / a totem pole / a diamond eye / the wheels of fun
2 / a doll's house / a silver door / trees that talk / a delicious dinner / a pretty doll / a comfy chair / the silver vulture / a mighty weed / a bread knife
3 / a time bomb / a secret microfilm / an antelope's horns / a monkey in a hanging basket / X ray / a harpoon / a massive raincloud / a floating body / a great whirlwind
4 / a long ladder / a bag of Rubies / skeleton of a dinosaur / a glowing mirror / the golden hammer / an unidentified flying object / an old stream train / a broken stained glass window / phosphorescant slime
5 / a bottle with a message in it / a bucket of custard / a teddy bear's paw / a boomerang / a two edged sword / forest of stalagmites / a giant laser / a submarine / a particular bunch of keys
6 / a secret weapon / the figure head of an old ship / a pyramid / the alarm system of a building / a poison capsule / a rusty knife / a CD / a frogman suit / a brown parcel
7 / foot prints / an electronic man / a lasso / an umbrella / a glowing light / an exploding mine / a tin of beans / a catapult / a giant laser
8 / a box / an invisible ray / a huge standing stone / abandoned cars / invisible ink / a mouse mat / a secret formula / a rope bridge / grinning snowmen
9 / the crown jewels / a speed boat / a stone / a booby trap / a rowing boat / a very expensive cake / a set of false teeth / a giant snowball / a television camera
When
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 91 / At last / On saturday / Once upon a time / Every day / soon / During the night / On holiday / After breakfast / During the winter
2 / On a dark night / When I was 5 / Soon after I got up / While shopping / In a few days time / Long long ago / Just after midnight / In 2000 / Recently
3 / It was getting dark / On my birthday / When the holiday came / Many years ago / In January / Just as the Train stopped / When the clock showed midnight / Every time it snowed / Before school
4 / On monday / At Christmas time / When it snowed / Mostly during the day / When I’m tired / Fortnightly / In a few weeks / While I’m here / Shortly
5 / As the car drove off / Three weeks after the storm / Annually / Four days ago / At Christmas / Next year / When we were in France / Just before 10 o’clock / In the meantime
6 / When you go to work / Monthly / In December / While I was going up the hill / When I say go / After a while / Before you decide / In a few days time / Before he goes on holiday
7 / A few days ago / When he went to bed / After they came back / Later on / During the meal / At last / now / Whenever they are sad / During the holidays
8 / never / In a while / A moment ago / Never on a Sunday / When the TV is on / After the match / At 5 o’clock / Soon after the party / In a few years time
9 / A moment ago / Every fortnight / Frequently at bedtime / Nearly a month ago / Almost every day / After the war was over / Next week / In the Victorian age / Before he started the job