Game about the passive

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Game about the passive

Roclam

Game about the passive

Hi, some time ago I came across this little game, and I would like to share it with you. You can find it here:

http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?docid=152839

Changes in the classroom (present perfect passive)
Ask a student or students to leave the room. Make some changes in the classroom, e.g. knock some books onto the floor, turn the lights out, erase the board etc. Ask the students to come back into the room and guess what has been changed.

I adapted it like this: I asked three students to stay and the rest of the class went out. The three students made 10 changes in the room. Then the others came back and I put them in pairs to write down what changes had been made. At the same time the three students who had made the changes were writing the same list. The first pair to write down the 10 changes were the winners, while the 3 students were checking if the changes had been described correctly.

It works really well as a warm-up. My students loved it!

22 Apr 2010