Collection of games

Where could…have looked?

Level: intermediate and advanced

Age: children

Group size: whole class

Use: to practise ‘could/might have…’

This is an activity, which follows upon the previous game. Everybody looks back at what has happened.

For instance: Did Jim look in the cupboard, Alan? No, miss. Could he have looked there? Yes, he could, but he didn’t. Where else could he have looked, but didn’t look? Everybody makes one suggestion. He could have looked under my foot/behind that picture/in the vase, etc. Did you look under his foot/behind that picture, etc. Jim? No. Could you have looked there? Yes. The class is talking about what they saw happen and not happen.

An alternative to could here is might.

The type of games belongs to vocabulary games. A vocabulary game is one in which the learners’ attention is focused mainly on words. Many of these games give incidental vocabulary practice.
What is this/that? Who is this/that?