Materials: Guidelines

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.

You have a choice of two different methods of getting this handout to your printer. It all depends on whether your computer has "Adobe Acrobat Reader" installed. If it has, then this would be the recommended method for printing out the worksheet. Try selecting the "PDF (Adobe Acrobat)" link below. If all goes well, a new application window should appear including a print button, which when selected will print out one copy.

If, on the other hand you do not have "Adobe Acrobat" select the "HTML (web page)" link below. (Also, this method is recommended for users of Netscape Navigator, which seems to have trouble interacting with the Acrobat program like this.) If all goes well, a new browser window will open, from which you can either click the "print button" on the toolbar or open the "File" menu, select "Print" and then adjust the "Print Dialog Box" to your own preferences.

The final link below is to enable you to print this "instruction page" if you want to. Click on the link, and when the page appears on a new screen you will be able to print it using the browser's "print button" or "file menu". After printing, close the window again so that you can continue to navigate around the site.

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