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Guessing Games: New English in Use ESO 2 Photocopiable © Burlington Books

The document describes several games and activities that can be used to practice English vocabulary, grammar, and conversation skills in the classroom. Some of the suggested activities include guessing games, dictated drawing, surveys with questions, paragraph dictation, charades-style miming, sentence chains, guessing locations from clues, making sentences from word prompts, planning trips, and writing dialogues.

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Guessing Games: New English in Use ESO 2 Photocopiable © Burlington Books

The document describes several games and activities that can be used to practice English vocabulary, grammar, and conversation skills in the classroom. Some of the suggested activities include guessing games, dictated drawing, surveys with questions, paragraph dictation, charades-style miming, sentence chains, guessing locations from clues, making sentences from word prompts, planning trips, and writing dialogues.

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Guessing Games

A Tell one student to think of something from a given topic group (animals, the house, sport, school items,
fashion, vehicles, etc.). Tell the student to give one clue at a time and ask the other students to guess the
item.
B Tell one student to think of something from a given topic group (animals, the house, sport, school items,
fashion, vehicles, etc.). Tell the other students to ask Yes / No questions about the item. Tell them to
continue until they can guess the item

Dictated Drawing
Tell the students to each draw something. Depending on the vocabulary that you wish to revise, you can
request a person, a family, a room, a street with places on it, etc. Then tell the students to work in pairs. Tell
one student in each pair to describe his / her picture to his / her partner, while the partner draws the picture.
Encourage the student drawing the picture to ask questions to clarify what he / she should draw. (Where is it?,
Like this?, How many?, etc.) Once the drawing is completed, tell the students to compare the original drawing
with the dictated drawing. Then tell the students to repeat the process and to do a dictated drawing of the other
partner’s drawing.

Surveys
A Ask the students to suggest activities (or experiences) and write them on the board. Then tell the students
to copy six of the activities / experiences from the list on the board and to walk around the classroom
asking questions to find a student who does each of the activities or who has had each of the experiences.
Tell the students to find out at least one other piece of information from the person who does (or has
done) each activity / experiences (when he / she does (did) it, where he / she does (did) it, who he / she
does (did) it with, etc.).
B Tell the students to suggest typical school items and write them on the board. Then tell the students to
copy six of the items from the list on the board and to walk around the classroom asking questions to find
a student who has got each of the items. Tell the students to find out at least one other piece of
information from the person who has got each item (what colour the item is, how many of each item the
student has got, etc.).
C Tell the students to write seven things that they are interested in. Then tell the students to walk around the
classroom and to ask questions to find someone else interested in each thing. The first person to find a
student interested in each thing wins.

Paragraph Dictation
Tell the students to work in pairs. Attach several copies of a paragraph to the walls of the classroom. You can
use a paragraph from a text in your Student’s Book or from any other source. Tell the students that the idea is
for one student from each pair to dictate the paragraph to the second student as quickly as possible, but from
memory. Explain that the first student should go to one of the copies of the paragraph, read a section and then
go back and recite it for the second student, who writes it. Once the whole paragraph has been written, the pair
of students should go together to the copy of the paragraph on the wall and correct their work. Point out that
as they are working, the first student can point out and help correct any mistakes that he / she sees.

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Mime
A Divide the students into two teams. In turns, ask a student from each team to mime something (a routine
or activity, a verb, etc.). Tell the other team to guess what it is. Give one point for each correct answer
given in a full sentence.
B Divide the students into two teams. Give each team a holiday destination. In turns, ask students from the
team to mime activities that they are going to do (or did, depending on the tense you wish to practise) on
their holiday. Tell the other team to guess the activity. Give one point for each correct answer given in a
full sentence.

Sentence Chain
Tell the students something that you do every day. (I watch TV every day.) Then ask a student to repeat what
you said and to add another routine. Continue with each student repeating what was said before and adding
another routine. (I watch TV and ride a bike every day.) Continue until the chain is too long to remember.
This activity can be used for revision of different tenses (things you have done, did, are going to do, etc.).

Guess Where You Are


A Ask one student to leave the classroom. Tell the class to choose a room in the house / place in town /
geographical feature. Then ask the student to come back to the classroom and to ask questions to guess
the place that the class chose.
B Ask one student to leave the classroom. Tell the class to choose a room in the house / place in town /
geographical feature. Then ask the student to come back to the classroom. Tell the other students in the
class to give clues until the student guesses the place that the class chose.
C Divide the class into small groups and give each group a strip of paper with the name of a place (room in
the house, place in town, geographical feature, etc.). In turns, tell each group to say four sentences about
the place (what you can do there, buy there, etc.), without mentioning the place. Ask the other groups to
guess the place.

Make a Sentence
Divide the class into two teams. Tell a student from one team to call out a lexical group (the house, sport,
school items, fashion, vehicles). Tell a student from the other team to say a word from the group and use it in
a logical and grammatically correct sentence. Give a point for each correct sentence.

Planning a Trip
Tell the students to work in pairs or small groups. Tell them to decide on a holiday destination. Then tell them
to plan the trip. Depending on the level of the class, you might ask them to choose the clothing that they will
pack, make a schedule for the trip (things they plan to do each day), make a list of the things they need to do
to prepare for the trip (book hotels, get a passport, etc.) . Ask them to present their plans to the class.

Write a Dialogue
Ask the students to work in pairs. Tell them to choose a picture from their Student’s Book (it must be a picture
with people in it) or bring in pictures from magazines, newspapers, etc. for them to use. Tell the students to
write a dialogue that the people in the picture might have. Ask some of the pairs to present their dialogues to
the class.

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