Collection of games

Aims: Speaking skill

Level: Intermediate/ Advanced

Time: 15-20 minutes

Organisation: Pairs, class

Procedure: Two students agree on a topic they want to talk about without telling the others what it is. The two students start discussing their topic without mentioning it. The others listen. Anyone in the rest of the group who thinks he knows what they are talking about, joins in their conversation. When about a third or half of the class have joined in, the game is stopped.

Which job?

Aims: Speaking skill, logical explanation

Level: Intermediate

Time: 15-20 minutes

Organisation: Groups of six students

Procedure: The students work together in groups. Each group member writes down the ideal job for himself and for everybody else in the group. The job lists are read out and discussed in the groups. Students explain why they feel the ideal jobs suggested for them would/wouldn’t be ideal.

Personalities

Aims: Speaking and writing skills

Level: Beginners

Time: 10-15 minutes

Organisation: Individuals

Procedure: The teacher unites a list of names on the board. She asks the students to select the six personalities they would like to invite to their classroom to give a talk and rank them in order the preference. They write their choices in order on a piece of paper. All the papers are collected.

The list of the names:

• 
  William Shakespeare
  
• 
  Walt Disney
  
• 
  Cinderella
  
• 
  James Bond
  
• 
  Napoleon
  
• 
  Monet
  
• 
  Sting
  

When the final list for the whole class has been completed, students who selected the most popular personalities are asked to explain their choice. Then at home they write down the questions what they will ask from them.
Our town

Aims: Describing a town, writing skill

Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Time: -

Organisation: Groups

Procedure: Divide the class into groups. Give each group the task of describing one feature of their town. For example:

• 
  places of interest
  
• 
  good places to eat at
  
• 
  entertainment facilities
  
• 
  sports facilities
  
• 
  local industries, etc.
  

Each groups should write their description in such a way that the feature described sounds attractive to someone visiting the town. Each student should also make his own copy of the description.

Then form new groups, making sure that they contain at least one representative from each of the original groups, and ask them to write a full report on their town based on these descriptions. The report may be accompanied by a map showing the location of various places of interest, etc.

How do you feel?

Procedure: Tell the students to close their eyes; they might like to place their heads on their arms. Ask them to think about how they feel; they might think about their day so far, or about their previous lesson with you and what they remember of it, what they learnt and what their problems might have been. After a few minutes, students who are willing to do so can say what their feelings are.