Mad libs

This is how you play: Don’t read the story just yet! Ask your friends to come up with words indicated in the brackets and fill in the blanks. Don’t let them know the context just yet. After each spot has been filled, read the story out loud!

P.S. If you can’t remember what the abbreviated word classes are, please refer back to the Longman Student Grammar book.

This is the very (ADJ) story of a very (ADJ) May Day’s Eve. The Hero of our story (FIRST NAME) the (ADJ), the (ADJ [superlative]) of (A POSITION ON ANGLICA’S BOARD).

It was a rather (ADJ) (TIME OF DAY) , when our hero rose from their slumber They had been (VERB [inf-form]) all night and their (BODY PART) was aching horribly. They did not mind the pain but chose to open a bottle of (DRINK) instead. This (ADJ) little Anglican had no idea what sort of luck was ahead.

Our hero gets up from their (A PIECE OF FURNITURE), groaning, but awake. The pounding in their (BODY PART) was truly something. The memory of last night was (ADJ), with a few bits here and there they could recall It was (ADJ) being a student during May Day. Our Hero then pulled up their (CLOTHING ITEM), grabbed a bottle of (DRINK) and (DRINK), their (NOUN), and ran out the door.

Our hero came across their

(ADJ) group of friends, all (ADJ) from last night. As the whole gang made their (ADJ) way to Vartiovuori, they sang a (ADJ) tune: (A SONG). The Sitz on Thursday had been (ADJ), with (A SONG) still stuck in their heads.

As they

(ADV) climbed to Vartiovuori, our hero spotted something, glittering in the sunlight: A/AN (ADJ) (A NOUN)! They grabbed it, overjoyed by their discovery. The gang opened a celebratory bottle of (DRINK), and (VERB) the whole May Day through, wishing the (ADJ [superlative]) and (ADJ [superlative]) of May Days to anyone they came across!