Well, we had a bunch of time left over at the end of the last class hour today, so before letting the students start the weekend early, I had them tell another chain story. This was a different group of students from the last time, but this one was just as entertaining.
Once upon a time (litererally the student said 'when a tiger smoked a cigarrette' which is a phrase that means a long time ago), there was a very manly woman. (This sentence completely threw the rest of the class room into chaos as they had no idea what the smoking tiger line meant and the manly woman line made them laugh. So, the student restarted the story with a new sentence.)
A long time ago, there was a farmer. The farmer worked very hard. One day, a rabbit came to the farm. It was a very cute rabbit. The rabbit bought a carrot from the farmer. He was a three-legged rabbit, so he decided to use the carrot as a leg. The rabbit was very special and could talk. He went to sleep. Along came another rabbit and he ate the carrot-leg. The first rabbit woke up and saw that his leg was eaten. Both rabbits set out on a walk. They met a cat. The three-legged rabbit told the cat that he wanted to be a real boy (in a pinochio type voice). The cat told the rabbit to ask the farmer. The rabbit went to the farmer and used a knife to cut off the farmer's leg and slice it (since we just learned all about cooking and food preparation vocab in the most recent unit, I asked if the rabbit sliced the leg up thinly or thickly - the answer was thickly). The rabbit decided to live in the leg. One day, the other rabbit came to the leg house. The three-legged rabbit killed this rabbit and cooked rabbit stew. He served the rabbit stew to the farmer and they ate very well.
On that note, I let them go home five minutes early. These guys are really doing well in the class and I love the chain stories. It forces them to listen to each other and they often correct each other on little things before I do. They are also forced to think on their feet as every sentence offers them something new to deal with. They also get a chance to add anything they like to the story and keeps them into it. Some of them will actually comment after another students sentence about how they have the perfect sentence to add in next, even if it isn't there turn. It's a lot of fun for everyone! And they never cease to make me smile.