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Frustration: Speaking

Give everyone in the class lots of small pieces of paper and ask the students to write the name of someone famous on each piece. This person can be living or dead, real or a fictional character. However, the name should be someone that is familiar to the whole class.
Tell students to screw the papers up and to throw them into a box that you circulate around the class. The class should sit in a circle and be divided into two teams. One student from Team A takes a paper from the box and tries to explain who the person is to their team without saying the name. For example, if the name were Elvis:

Student "He was American ..... a rock and roll singer ..... the king of rock and roll ..."

If nobody from Team A guesses the student should replace the paper and take another. They only have 30 seconds before the turn goes to a student from Team B.

How Many Words: Vocabulary

A very popular word game. Write the following grid up on the board:

     
     
     


Ask students to call out nine different letters. Make sure they offer you a nice selection of vowels and consonants. Put them into the grid, highlighting the letter in the middle:

M
B
A
R
E
L
S
D
U

Tell the students they have 5 minutes to find as many words as possible using the letters in the grid. The word can only contain these letters and each letter can only be used once. The letter in the middle must appear in each word. They score as follows:

3 letter word - 5 points (low level students)
4 letter word - 10 points
5 letter word - 25 points
6 letter word - 50 points
7 letter word - 100 points
8 letter word - 500 points
9 letter word - 1,000 points


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