Recipes Tagged ‘guessing’
This is a nice game to play to practice describing people (an important language skill). Simply put up this photo. or this one. Print it out if you want students to work in pairs / groups.
Students take turns describing the faces and others guess who it is . One guess / person so they have to be sure!
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Celebrities
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25 Jul 2009
Students love to talk about celebrities.
1. Put the names of some celebrities on the board. Describe one and the students will guess who it is. Erase that name and continue until all are erased.
2. Give students a blank piece of paper. Give them one minute to write down the name of all the celebrities they can think of (they can write in their native script)
3. In pairs students describe and…
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Guessing about the Classroom competition
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20 Questions
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21 Jul 2009
This is a great game to play with students and excellent for practicing question making.
1. Choose an object and students ask questions about it. Give them question prompts to help, written on the board. For example;
Is it ..... heavy/light/big/small/young/old/(color)/hard/soft/
Can you ......... with it?
Can it ........it?
Does it have ....? Does it ......?
Students guess and have 20 questions to figure it out.
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Bring an item that is so unusual that the learners are not likely to recognize what it is. Spend some time eliciting basic descriptions of the item and guesses about what it is and how it's used. If possible, pass the item around.
This is an activity in observation and inference, so don't answer questions. Just write down descriptions and guesses until someone figures it out or you reveal the…
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