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Fun questions getting students to talk

Activity type:: this activity involves students asking each other personal questions in orderto develop fluency.

Level:Intermediate students and above

Teacher's notes:

1. There are a variety of ways that you can get the students to ask the questions whichare listed below.

a. You can dictate the questions i.e. read out some of the questions and get thestudents to write them down. Once you have done this, ask the students to read

the questions out to you. Check that they have written the questions downcorrectly.

b. You can stick the questions around the classroom. Tell the students to minglearound the room. When they get to a question, they should stop and ask the

nearest student to them the question.

c. If you want to add novelty value, play music. When you stop the music ask thestudents to find the question nearest to them on the wall and to discuss it.

d. Alternatively you can hand out one question per student and ask them to mingleand ask as many people they can in class the question. At the end of the mingleactivity, tell the whole class to give feedback on the questions that they asked.

NOTE: all of the above ideas are useful for students who feel inhibited when

speaking. When mingling, they do not feel so much on the spot and are morelikely to speak.

2. Once the students have mingled, do necessary error corrections. For homework, youcan ask the students to write their own answers to the questions that they would like towrite about. This will further practice the language that they have used.


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QUESTIONS:

1. What was the happiest event in your life?

2. What three things could you not live with out?

3. Who is your best friend?How long have you been friends for?

4. What would you say was the happiest time in your life?

5. What achievement are you most proud of?

6. What is your favorite time of day?

7. Whats your favorite type of weather?

8. What is your favorite word and why?

9. What is your favorite sound and why?

10.Who do you most respect?

11.Who would you like to change lives with for a day, if you could?

12.Who do you think you take after in your family?

13.What is your favorite place and why?

14.What do you want to achieve in the next 5 years?


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Find someone who... .

Teacher's notes:

1. The idea behind this activity is to allow the students to discuss lexical items and

to have fun while doing so.

2. Cut out the find someone whos and give one to each student.

3. Repeat the necessary questions forms and affirmative /negative statements. For

example:Do you like to swim? No, I don't. Yes, I do.

4. Tell the student to then mingle and find some one who knows the answers to their

questions.

The activity is included on the next page, specificaly formatted for easy printing.

Just print the two pages and enjoy it.

Find some who

Can spell lemon

Can speak Spanish

Likes chocolate

Likes to cook

Find someone who

Can spell orange Is from a different city than you

Lives in a city

Likes to swim

Find someone who


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Likes to play tennis

Lives in a town

Likes to learn English

Can swim

Find someone who

Can play the piano

Likes to listen to music

Is older than you

Lives near the school

Find someone who

Can play football

Likes to watch TV

Is taller than you

Is a doctor

Find someone who

Can speak German

Likes to go to restaurants

Is shorter than you

Is a student

Find someone who


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Can play chess

Likes to go to nightclubs

Likes to jog

Is a dentist

Find someone who

Can sing

Likes to listen to the radio

Wants to go to Africa

Is an administrative assistant

Find someone who

Can speak French

Likes to fish

Has a friend in the USA

Is a production worker

Find someone who

Can touch his/her toes

Likes to go out at night

Knows a famous person

Is a nurse

Find someone who


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Can speak Italian

Likes to learn English

Is married

Is a teacher

Find someone who

Can speak two languages

Likes to stay at home at night

Likes Chinese food

Is a lawyer

Find someone who

Can speak Spanish

Likes to dance

Drinks a lot of coffee

Is a musician

Find someone who

Can drive

Likes to go on vacation

Likes to cook

Is an actor

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Clothes puzzle

Activity type: this is a word finding puzzle in which students have to find words to do with

clothes in a word grid.

Level: Beginner

Teacher's notes:

1. This is a useful exercise/puzzle to do at the end of a lesson about clothes or as a reviewactivity after having taught lessons about clothes.

2. Explain that the students are going to be given grids full of letters.3. Show them a grid.4. Explain that they have to find words for clothes in the grid of letters.5. Explain that the words are only horizontal or vertical. You can demonstrate what these

two words mean by drawing lines horizontally and vertically on the board.6. Tell the students that there are 20 words in the grid which are listed below.7. The students can do this activity alone or in pairs. Tell them to find the words and to

draw lines through them or around them to indicate where the words are as quickly aspossible.

8. The first students to finish are the winners!

Words:

Pants SocksSkirt TrousersTee shirt TieVest ShortsTop JacketSandals JeansScarf DressShirts ShoesSneakers HatCoat Gloves

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If the picture fitsby Cassandra Cretney

Type of activity: This is a speaking activity in which students guess other students' drawings.

Level: Any (instructions can be adapted for any level but activity works best with pre-intermediates and up).

Teacher's notes:

1. Begin by drawing something on the board and asking the students to guess what it is.Encourage them to ask questions e.g. is it a .? Is it something I can eat etc. Once the

students have guessed what the picture is, hand out, on slips of paper, a drawing

instruction to each student. Examples are given below. Make sure that each studenthas a different instruction and ensure that they do not show each other their

instructions.

2. Instruct the students to draw what the instruction tells them to. Remind them not toshow each other what they are drawing.

3. Put the students into pairs and ask them to show each other their completed drawings.Each student guesses what the other student has drawn.

4. If time teacher could pin up all the drawings around the classroom so that the studentscan get up and see everyones drawing and then get each student to give a brief

summary of what they have drawn and why.

Note:Students will probably try to spend a long time drawing. Set a strict time limit and go

round encouraging the students. Make it clear that it is drawing ability is not importantspeaking English is the aim.


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Drawing instructions:

Draw what you ate last night.

Draw what you will do tonight.

Draw a scene from a famous movie.

Draw your favourite animal.

Draw your favourite food.

Draw something you hate doing.

Draw something you love doing.

Draw what you would do if you won the lottery.

Draw your favourite celebrity.

Draw yourself.

Draw what you did last weekend.


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Draw your favourite holiday destination.

Draw your idea of what an alien is.

15.What do you like about yourself?



Games: quick ideas - old favorites.

Stop the bus:

1. Draw a grid with three/four boxes on the board.

2. In each box write one category and split the group of students into three teams.3. Write a letter on the board.

4. The teams have to think of a word for each category which begins with that letter.

5. As soon as they have 3 or 4 words they should shout "stop the bus!" run to the board andwrite the words in each box.

6. Categories could include: vegetables, countries, objects in a home etc.

Backs to the board:

1. Put two seats in front of the board and split the class into two teams.

2. Ask two students to sit in each chair and then write a word on the board.3. The students sat in the chairs have their backs to the boards therefore they cannot see the

word.4. The teams have to get the students in the chairs to say the word by giving the students in the

chairs definitions.

Mime game:


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1. Give each student one of the problems below.

2. Tell them that they are in a hotel but the receptionist doesn't speak their language and so

they have to mime.

The roles are included on the next page, specifically formatted for easy printing.

Just print the two pages and enjoy it.

Your shower doesn't work- no water and the toilet is broken.

Your telephone keeps buzzing but when you pick up the receiver no one is there.

You keep hearing the people next door. You don't know what they are doing, but they are certainly

having fun! You can't sleep.

You think you saw a mouse in your room.

The food has poisoned you and you need a doctor now.

You are allergic to MSG so you don't want it in any of your food.

You do not eat meat.

You only eat fish on Fridays.

You would like to know where the nightlife is.


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You would like to have fresh laundry daily.

You would like your wake up call at 5.30am.

You would like a translator.


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Five Letter Challenge

Activity type: this is a vocabulary / spelling game in which students have to guess

the word that the teacher is thinking of by working out which letters the word contains.It is a tough game so this is best played with people who like a challenge!

Level: Intermediate and above

The origin of this game is unknown but it has been seen played in many places around

the world.

Teacher's notes:

1. Explain the game to the students; tell them that you are going to think of a fiveletter word. They then have to guess the word by saying other five letter words.

When they say the other words you will tell them how many similar letters arecontained in both words. There are two main rules; the words always containfive letters and the never contain two or more of the same letter.

2. For example: the teacher chooses a five letter word plane.3. The students say another five letter word to try to guess what the word is. They

may say, for example hurts.

4. The teacher says that none of the letters are contained in the word. Thestudents can therefore cross off those letters.

5. The students then say plain. The teachers reply is four; the students knowthat four letters spell the teachers word and one letterdoesnt.


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6. They now have to decide which one is the odd one out so their best tactic is tosay a word very near to the word that they just said e.g. slain.

7. There are three letters the same and so the students know that s is incorrect.8. The students probably know that p is contained in the word, they also know

that the other letters are probably l a i or n. They then say plain as a

guess and of course they are right.

9. This game can take some time. The students could write down the entirealphabet and then cross off the letters as they are playing the game this mayhelp them to keep track of what has been said.


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'Dear Abby' column

Level: Intermediate

Teacher's notes:

1. Cut up the problems and give one to each student in class.2. Ask them to ask the other students in the class for help.

3.

The students should make sure that they use the word should.4. If you have more than eight students duplicate some of the problems.

My boyfriend drinks too much, eats too much and never helps around the house; the problem is that

I love him. What should I do?

I need to find a boyfriend/girlfriend but Im very shy, what should I do?

My boyfriend is very rich but very mean; he never gives me any money. What should I do?


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My girlfriend is very beautiful and always looks at other men. I get very jealous when she does this

and then we argue. What should I do?

My boyfriend always looks at other women; he says he loves me but I can see his eyes! Whatshould I do?

My husband is very romantic and very loving but the problem is I dont really love him, I love hisbrother! What should I do?

Im sure that I saw my sisters husband with another woman in a restaurant. Should I tell her? What

should I do?

My next door neighbour is really noisy late at night. I have told him about it once and he promisedto quieten down but he hasnt. He is a really nice man and I dont like to offend him.What should I

do?


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