Eileen Eileen

Guess who

Description

Students practice describing people using physical and personality adjectives while developing their ability to ask and answer yes/no questions. The activity encourages interaction, listening, and deduction in a fun, communicative way.

Materials

Abc Post-its

Main Aims

  • To develop students' speaking fluency through the use of descriptive language and yes/no questions in an interactive guessing game.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To review and reinforce physical and personality adjectives.
  • To practice forming and answering yes/no questions using to be and present simple.
  • To improve listening skills through peer interaction.
  • To encourage student engagement and participation in a low-pressure environment.

Procedure

Explanation (10-15 minutes) • Understand the dynamic.

Explain the rules and procedure of the game. Put a quick example of how it's going to be.

Game! (40-45 minutes) • Learn and have fun.

Each student secretly writes a description of a made-up character or celebrity. Collect the papers and redistribute randomly. Students ask yes/no questions to guess: -“Is this person a man?” -“Does she have short hair?” -“Is he a singer?” 2 complete rounds

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