The teacher prepares -ADHESIVE TYPEWRITER ADDRESS LABELS ( which can be purchased in rolls to stick on the backs of all the students in the class.) or Post It Notes.
Each label contains a real person’s name or the name of a character from fiction or television cartoons. Each named person should have a natural partner, for example if you write a label with the name ROMEO, there should also be a label with the name JULIET stuck on somebody’s back. If you have an odd number of students in your class, stick a label on your own back, but let the students do the questioning.
Questions must be of the type that can either be answered with YES or No:
Am I man or a woman? Alive or dead? European or American? Real or fictitious?
Am I a character from a cartoon or a book? Am I rich? Am I famous?
Have I been in the news recently? Am I someone from your country? Britain?
Do I work in sport / music / entertainment / the cinema / the theatre?
Students ask questions to find their partner……..when they think they’ve found their partner, they sit down together.
Some possible matches..
| ROMEO | JULIET | TOM the cat | JERRY the mouse |
| POPEYE | OLIVE OIL | Prince Philip | Queen Elizabeth II |
| Micky Mouse | Minnie Mouse | Stan Laurel | Oliver Hardy |
| King Juan Carlos | Queen Sofia | André Agassi | Steffi Graff |
| Nelson Mandella | Winnie Mandella | John Lennon | Yoko Ono |
| Richard Burton | Elizabeth Taylor | Bonnie (gangster) | Clyde (gangster) |
| Tarzan | Jane (jungle girl) | The Lone Ranger | Tonto (cowboy) |
| Prince Charles | Princess Diana | Cindarella | Prince Charming |
See all our matching activity lesson materials.
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