EFL Ideas
Describing Things.
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For this exercise you'll need a bag and some small objects, eg., cars, robots, bicycles, planes, etc. Its not an activity for a beginners class. I generally have the objects and the bag in a box just outside the door. When it comes time to do the exercise I go to the door and put an object in the bag, hiding what I'm doing with my body. Then I look around the room for a moment, pondering who I'm going to give the bag to. This person has to come out in front of the class and start describing what's in the bag. The other students are allowed to ask 'yes/no' questions, eg., 'Is it.....? Does it have....?', and of course the person doing the describing is only allowed to answer 'yes' or 'no'. Of course, I demand complete sentences. I give them about 10 to 15 seconds to guess what's in the bag. Any longer than this and it becomes too easy. If they succeed then the person doing the describing can go outside and choose the next item that has to described and give the bag to the next person. If they fail I get to do the choosing. If you wanted to you could turn this into a game with teams and scoring etc., but I just like to use it as an ending when we've been doing adjectives or something. Here are some example sentences for a kite.
It's big and square. |