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What�s Better: Work or Prison?
With this rather funny comparison of working versus being in prison, have students work in pairs, each with either the Inmate or Worker worksheet. They take turns reading a line, and then they must decide which is more desirable, working or being in a prison and tick (or check) the appropriate box.
If you would like a pdf. version of this exercise...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23
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Who Am I? - Cinema
Print out and cut up the cards. Tape 1 card with Scotch tape/Sellotape on the back of each student. The students then walk around the room asking each other Yes and No questions like "Am I alive?" or "Am I a woman?" to find out their new identity. Encourage those answering the questions to use short answers like "Yes, you are" and "No, you didn�t?"...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 2
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Who Am I? - Scientists
Print out and cut up the cards. Tape 1 card with Scotch tape/Sellotape on the back of each student. The students then walk around the room asking each other Yes and No questions like "Am I alive?" or "Am I European?" to find out their new identity. Encourage those answering the questions to use short answers like "Yes, you are" and "No, you didn�t?...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 3
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Who Gets a Transplant?
This exercise generates a lot of speaking. Students work in small groups of 4 or 5 discussing which 2 of the 5 patients will receive a life-saving liver transplant. (Two of the patients are loosely based on real people.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Who Lives Where?
Here is another brain teaser where students have to figure out who lives in which house.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 83
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Who Owns the Zebra?
In this reading and discussion exercise, students try to solve this brain teaser in pairs. If students have trouble working out the answer, suggest they make a grid (like in the solution). (I got this brain teaser from elsewhere, but I changed most of the nationalities, all the drinks to healthy juices, and replaced their filthy smoking habits with...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 88
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Who Was the Murderer?
In this brain teaser, students work to find out who the murderer was. There is a worksheet to help students with the deduction process. I no longer remember where I found this, but it was YEARS ago, and I have completely reformatted it.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 73
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Who�s the Leader of China
In this parody of Abbott and Costello�s classic sketch about baseball, "Who�s on First," President George W. Bush questions Condoleezza Rice about Hu, the new leader of China. You can find an audio recording of this sketch on the Internet to play after the students have read this dialogue in pairs.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Why Can�t the English?
In "My Fair Lady," Professor Henry Higgins laments that no one speaks correct English. Here the students identify the different nationalities/countries accused of massacring the language.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Witness - 6 Characters
About 2/3s or 3/4s of the way through the film "Witness," distribute cards to the class and explain that this is their new identity. Give them some time to write questions they would like to ask other characters in the film while you go around giving help.
Then collect the role cards, and have the students stand up and walk around at a party. Th...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 23
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