Students are divided into groups of three.  Each student is given three post-it notes each.

The teacher instructs the students to write an important event in their life along with the month and year it happened on each post-it.  Once everyone has completed writing their events, the groups are told to arrange the events in a line according to when they happened.

Using a small trinket as a marker and a six-sided die or coin to move (heads = one move; tails = two), each group member takes turn rolling and moving their token.  Whichever post-it the token lands on, the person who wrote that event must explain it to the group.

After all of the events have been explained, the group can then practice explaining the events using a target grammar structure.  For example, if there is an event such as “moved to France (08/2002)” and “bought my first car (05/2005)” the group can say or write, “Matt moved to France three years before Joan bought her first car.”