Who is the quickest

1. Take a paragraph from a book you study and second hand watch. 2. Ask each student to read the paragraph as quick as possible.

Alibi

1. Select a scene and time for a crime say, a bank robbery, at a well-known bank in the middle of town, at 11 o'clock yesterday. 2. Two ...

Match the adjectives

1. Write three adjectives on the board, e.g. important, dangerous, heavy. 2. Ask the students to suggest things which could be described by ...

Others do it for me

1. Ask students round the class these questions: When? Why? Why not? Do you like to cook for yourself? Do you like to be cooked for? Do you ...

Lie detector

1. One of the students leaves the classroom. The rest of the class prepares questions to him. 2. When he or she comes in they ask him their ...

Writing as another

1. Put the students into groups of 4 and then ask them to write individually a sentence about something they did in the past, for example as...

What have I been doing?

1. The teacher explains that the students have to guess what the teacher has been doing from a description of his appearance. The activity i...