Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Speaking Game 1

What is it?
In this game, students practice their ability in giving and answering yes-no questions to guess a misterious thing.

Level: intermediate - advance

Purposes:
- to develop students’ vocabularies
- to exercise with yes-no questions
- to introduce certain vocabularies
- to gain communicative purposes

Preparation:
Card of words. It can be person, thing, animal, town, etc. It’s held by teacher.

How to play:
- Divide the class into groups of 5 students.
- One of the members must be selected as the master.
- All the masters must stand in front of the class.
- The teacher gives a card of word to the 1st master.
- The members of group must guess the word, but they may ask the master by asking yes-no questions. This chance is only 3 minutes to play.
- After 1 group or master plays it, then the next master or group has a chance to play, till the last master.
- The group who can find the word most is the winner.

Example:
The word hidden in the card is FARMER

Student 1: “Is it a thing?”
Master :“No”
Student 2: “Is it occupation?”
Master : “Yes”
Student 3: “Is it for person who drive vehicles?
Master : “No”
Student 4 “Does he work in an office?”
Master : “No”
Student 5 “Does he work in a farm?”
Master : “Yes”

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