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Thanksgiving Complaints: What should we do?
This full-class mingle exercise is a fun conversation activity for after explaining the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Elicit the following words:
cranberry sauce
stuffing
gravy
pumpkin pie
turkey
mashed potatoes
green beans
Hand out the cards, one per student (there are 18 here; you can print doubles for extra students). Make sure everyone und...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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Restaurant Mixed-Up Conversation
This is a mixed-up conversation to accompany a role play between a waiter and customers in a restaurant. Cut the slips, mix them up, and hand one or more to each student (there are 14 slips). Set up a table in the center of the room for students to arrange them into the proper order. When they�re done, have students read it out loud. This becomes t...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 13
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Instant Conversation #3 - Clothes
The is the third in a series of "Mad Lib"-type role plays I call Instant Conversations. In it, the students write the answers to simple questions, using vocabulary they�ve recently learned - not realizing they�re creating something for the upcoming role play. In the Clothes Instant Conversation, the students are designing a very unusual item of clo...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 9
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Speaking Activity: Making Driving Safer
After a tragic crash in which a young driver from our region was killed, I decided to create a lesson about how driving can be made safer. In groups of 3 or 4, students are given 20 safer-driving suggestions, and their job is to speak English with their partners and rank them from best to worst. This lesson is ideal for students who are just starti...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 7
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Family Find Out Who
Type: Full-class mingle
Ability: Elementary
Time: 30 minutes
This is pretty self-explanatory. I usually start off by drawing my family tree, and it might be helpful to have the students do the same before beginning, as it�s not always easy to count off cousins and aunts and uncles off the top of your head.
Pass out the cards, one per studen...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 4
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Who Are You and What Do You Know? #3 - A Man in a Bar
A man entered a bar, asked the bartender for a drink, and left much happier than when he came in. Why?
This is the third in my series of "Whodunit?" conversation games, based on lateral-thinking puzzles. In this one, there are 13 character cards, although the game can be played with as few as 9 students. (Two sets of cards are here in case you ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 18
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Instant Conversation #1 - Alien Cocktail Party
The is the first in a series of "Mad Lib"-type role plays I call Instant Conversations. In it, the students write the answers to simple questions, using vocabulary they�ve recently learned - not realizing they�re creating something for the upcoming role play.
In Alien Cocktail Party, the students are creating alien characters for themselves, whi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 10
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Who Are You and What Do You Know? #1 - Death at the Circus
I had been searching for a long time for some simple to set up yet challenging "Whodunit"-type conversation puzzles, and finally came up with an idea of how to do them myself, by basing them on lateral-thinking problems. They�ve been really popular with my teenage conversation classes. This, Death at the Circus, is the first in a series. There are ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 7
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Travel Agent Mixed-Up Conversation
This is a mixed-up conversation to accompany a role play between travel agents and customers, in which the customers try to book all-inclusive holidays. Cut the slips, mix them up, and hand one or more to each student (there are 21 slips). Set up a table in the center of the room for students to arrange them into the proper order. When they�re done...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 29
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Who Are You and What Do You Know? #2 - Death on a Train
This is the second in my series of "Whodunit?" conversation games, based on lateral-thinking puzzles. In this one, there are 14 character cards (two sets are here in case you have more students- the second set is written in italics), and the students have to ask each other "Who are you?" and "What do you know?" in order to find out how Mr. Grim die...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 18
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