Game: The Dog Show
Level: Pre Intermediate +
Aim: Questions
Minimum number of participants: 2
Resources needed: Clear Space
Instructions: This is a communication activity where the students have to use their imagination. There is an opportunity for the students to use mime and provides a chance to use the teacher in role drama technique. Get each student to imagine that they are a dog owner. They must each mime interacting with their dog. Once they have done this and got use to the size of their dog get them to imagine that they are competing in a dog show. The teacher takes on the role as a judge of the show. She/he interviews each of the dog owners individually and ask them the following questions.
What type of dog is it?
Where did you get him from?
What type of personality does he have?
What dog tricks can he do? Can you show us?
Why should you dog win the show?
The Judge/teacher can decide at the end of the activity who wins the show. The winner/winners can take a photo at the end with their dogs. (Still image).
Game: Alibi
Level: Pre intermediate +
Aim: To ask questions and to communicate in a spontaneous manner.
Minimum number of participants: 6
Resources needed: A clear space.
Instructions: Explain what an alibi means. Create a crime scene scenario.
Divide the class into groups of 4 or 5. Get one group to be the suspect send them out of the room to get their story straight. Meanwhile the suspects are getting their story straight. Get the other group to be the investigators to compile a series of questions. After the students are finished preparing invite the suspect back and the interrogation begins. Each group interviews each suspect and then they compare notes and decide whose story didn’t match up and they must come to a consensus who they will officially excuse.
Different scenarios
Bank robbery
Kidnapping
Shop lifting
Extension: More advanced students could hold a trial in which each group could be assigned different roles.
