Collection of games

Aims: Writing skill, making a questionnaire

Level: Pre-intermediate-Advanced

Time: 10 minutes

Organisation: Pairs

Procedure: the students preferable working in pairs, write questionnaries which they can use to interview one or more other students in the class. Questionnaries can focus on specific topics and even particular items of language.

Find someone who?	Name
Can play the piano
Is interested in fairy tales
Likes horror films
Has a brother and a sister
Always gets up early
Has a special pet

Writing puzzles

Aims: Writing skill, making sentences, answering correctly

Level: Beginner-Advanced

Time: 5-10 minutes

Organisation: Individuals/pairs

Procedure: The students working individually or in pairs. They should write one or more puzzles which they give to other students to answer.

What is it? It lives on the tree. It is a small animal. It jumps very quickly from one branch to another. It eats nuts.

Writing jumbled texts

Aims: Writing skill, dialogue or short-story writing, sentence connection

Level: Pre-intermediate-Advanced

Time: 20-25 minutes

Organisation: Pairs/groups

Procedure: the students work in pairs or small groups to write a dialogue or a short story, which they then cut up into separate sentences and give to another pair or group to put together.

They met Little Red Riding Hood who has a small umbrella.

Suddenly the wolf ran out from a cave.

When they entered the forest, it began to rain.

It stops raining.

The children were trembled because they were afraid of the wolf.

And finally Jack and Jill, Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf had a picnic in the middle of the forest.

Jack and Jill went to the forest to play hide-and-seek.

Book reports