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Thanksgiving Complaints: What should we do?
This full-class mingle exercise is a fun conversation activity for after explaining the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Elicit the following words:
cranberry sauce
stuffing
gravy
pumpkin pie
turkey
mashed potatoes
green beans
Hand out the cards, one per student (there are 18 here; you can print doubles for extra students). Make sure everyone und...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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Travel Agent Mixed-Up Conversation
This is a mixed-up conversation to accompany a role play between travel agents and customers, in which the customers try to book all-inclusive holidays. Cut the slips, mix them up, and hand one or more to each student (there are 21 slips). Set up a table in the center of the room for students to arrange them into the proper order. When they�re done...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 29
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Who Are You and What Do You Know? #1 - Death at the Circus
I had been searching for a long time for some simple to set up yet challenging "Whodunit"-type conversation puzzles, and finally came up with an idea of how to do them myself, by basing them on lateral-thinking problems. They�ve been really popular with my teenage conversation classes. This, Death at the Circus, is the first in a series. There are ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 7
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Who Are You and What Do You Know? #2 - Death on a Train
This is the second in my series of "Whodunit?" conversation games, based on lateral-thinking puzzles. In this one, there are 14 character cards (two sets are here in case you have more students- the second set is written in italics), and the students have to ask each other "Who are you?" and "What do you know?" in order to find out how Mr. Grim die...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 18
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Who Are You and What Do You Know? #3 - A Man in a Bar
A man entered a bar, asked the bartender for a drink, and left much happier than when he came in. Why?
This is the third in my series of "Whodunit?" conversation games, based on lateral-thinking puzzles. In this one, there are 13 character cards, although the game can be played with as few as 9 students. (Two sets of cards are here in case you ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 18
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