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Possessives: 's, my, his: Sentence Builder Game: Barry's Comic Caper

Barry's comic has no words yet. Teams drag the word tiles into order to write each caption, and a right sentence colours in the panel. Watch out for the sneaky tile, the word under the ink and the time machine. At the end, the class reads the whole comic together.

Free, no sign-in. Ready to play on the board, with a printable worksheet at three levels and a home version.

Possessives: 's, my, his (A1)

Whose Is It?: "This is Barry's hat."

Ages: 7 to 14
Levels: A1 to B1, at Support, Core and Challenge
Players: 2 to 4 teams, the whole class, or one student at home
Time: About 10 minutes a comic
Comics: 59 ready comics on 37 grammar points

How to play Barry's Comic Caper

Pick a grammar point. Choose from the shelves (Present, Past, Future, Comparing, Questions and more) or search, then pick the teams and the level.
Build the caption. The team at the board drags the word tiles into order. Mr Moon checks it: green tiles stay, and the panel colours in when the sentence is right.
Beat the twist. One tile is a fake, a word is hidden under the ink, the time machine asks for the sentence about yesterday, or the class spots the one right caption.
Read the comic. When all six panels are inked, the class reads the comic aloud together, and the worksheet takes it home.

Learning by doing

Every sentence tells part of a story the class can see: the caption has to match what is happening in the picture, so word order and grammar decide whether the comic makes sense. The time machine asks students to say the same moment about another time, which is how tense is used for real.

The worksheet

The worksheet comes at Support, Core and Challenge, with a QR code that opens the home version of the same comic and an answer key on its own page. Support builds captions with a worked example, Core crosses out the sneaky word and rewrites a sentence for another time, and Challenge fixes wrong sentences and captions a new panel.

Every grammar point

Barry's Comic Caper FAQ

Is it free?

Yes. Every ready comic is free to play, with no sign-in. Making a comic from your own sentences is part of Pro.

Which grammar points are there?

Past simple, going to, present continuous, comparatives and superlatives, questions, can, must, should, have to, some and any, prepositions, the passive, the first and second conditional and more, from A1 to B1.

Can students play at home?

Yes. The QR code on the worksheet opens the home version on a phone or tablet, with no sign-in.

Does it work on an interactive whiteboard?

Yes. The tiles are big enough to drag with a finger, and every control has a key for a laptop.