Preparations: Explanation

Preparations

• Details

Name of Item	Making Preparations
Activity Type	Warmer
Student Level	Lower intermediate - Intermediate
Time Allowance	10 - 15 minutes
Preparation Required	Cutting worksheets in half - two minutes
Other Items Needed	Nothing special
Vocabulary	business trip / presentation / conference
Grammar	(practide using the present perfect tense)

• Instructions

This is a very simple game, which you may want to adapt for practicing other sentence patterns or vocabulary items. It basically involves writing endings to preformatted sentences, which other class members then try to guess.

With lower level groups, you may want to revise the form of the present perfect tense before you start and you may want to give them a list of past participles to refer to. Then give all the students (half) a work-sheet each and tell them to write their own ideas at the end of each sentence to complete them. Tell them that other people will try to guess their answers and that more imaginative ideas will be more difficult to guess.

Then, as they finish writing, divide them into groups of four or five and tell them to take turns reading the beginnings of sentences and to have other group members guess what they have written.