Sunday, July 8, 2012

Activity 78- Reverse Charade

                 

I learned about this game by attending a workmate's workshop. It gives a little twist to a commonly used activity in the classroom: miming secret words.

Level:Any
Skill: Speaking
Material needed: set of slips with words to be guessed

Instructions: 
Explain that this game is like any other traditional miming game and that the objective is to have the word in the slip guessed correctly. Divide class into 2 or more groups. Set a time limit of one minute and tell the students that, differently from the traditional miming game, the whole team should work together to mime the word to a single person (that is the twist added to it!). If the word is guessed correctly, then the group gets a point. 

Here are some suggestions of words to be used in the game:

drive thru
Oprah Winfrey
funeral
wedding
water park
library
Spiderman
Christmas
airport
vacation
Grease
fashion show
train
zoo
sunset
internet


Source: Davi Rosa (Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasilia, Brazil), with adaptations
picture credits : http://www.flickr.com/photos/svimes/3225119224/ (Creative Commons)

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