Anne Matava sent this today:
Don’t Drink the Water
was
ate
drank
Justin was in Cuba. His friends had said to him (or warned him), “Don’t drink the water! Don’t eat the roadkill!” But Justin was in Cuba, so of course he drank the water and ate the roadkill. He turned into a coconut.
Then Justin was in Finland. His friends had warned him, “Don’t drink the milkshakes! Don’t eat the green eggs and ham!” But he was in Finland, so of course he drank the milkshakes and ate the green eggs and ham. He got the runs.
Then Justin was in Germany. His friends had warned him, “Don’t drink the oil! Don’t eat the whale blubber!” But Justin was in Germany, so of course he drank the oil and ate the whale blubber. He exploded.
Anne commented –
Your students may already have acquired the 3 structures I picked, so you could instead use any of these:
-warned
– turned into (in which case you would want your man to turn into something in each location. I was going to do it that way, but when someone suggested the runs I changed my mind.)
– Don’t eat/drink…!
I can’t recommend this script highly enough. It brought an absolutely flat-lined class back into the world of the living.
My comment – when you see that there is a pluperfect in there, chill out. To our students it is nothing fancy, just more grist for the mill of the CI. Just treat it like anything else in the story – they can handle it without the drum roll in English. This is true of everything we love, including the pluperfect subjunctive. They acquire it by hearing it enough times in ways that make sense to them.