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the class guessing their "secret" word. The other students in the class must listen
carefully to the speech, in an attempt to discover the secret word.
6. Debates
Give each student a piece of paper with agree written on one side, and disagree
on the other side. Read aloud a controversial statement, and have each students
hold up his/her paper stating whether they agree or disagree. Choose one student
from each side to explain his/her position and participate in a short debate.
7. Impromptu Speaking
Split the class into two teams, and use a list of impromptu speaking topics. Have
each student choose a number, and respond to the statement without
preparation. The student must continue speaking for 45 seconds when the teacher
calls out "stop." As the student is speaking, the other team listens for any
hesitation, grammatical mistakes or vocabulary mistakes. If the other team can
correctly identify an error, they get a point.
This is a link for randomly generated conversation
questions:http://www.teacherdiane.com/questions
8. Desert Island Activity
Give each student a piece of paper and tell him or her to draw an item. Any item.
Tell the students that they have been stranded on a desert island, and only half of
the class can survive and continue to inhabit the desert island. The student's goal is
to convince the class that they should survive. The hard part is that the only thing
they have is an item that was drawn a few minutes earlier by a classmate on the
piece of paper.
9. Storytelling Activity
Bring four students to the front of the classroom. Three students should sit down in
a row, and one of the students should stand behind them acting as a controller. The
controller should have a stack of cards in his hand containing nouns. The controller
will hand a noun to one of the three students who will start to tell a story. The
student will continue telling the story until the controller decides to hand another
noun to another student who will then take over the story.
10. Two Truths, One Lie
Each student should write three facts about themselves on a piece of paper. Two of
the facts should be the truth, and one should be a lie. Students read aloud the facts,
and give the other students a chance to question them and decide which statement
is a lie.