This is a lesson I made for 3 year students. They have a target grammar structure they have to use, but they also need to use simple English to figure get information they may be missing.
No lesson plan for this, and the materials can be used in a multitude of ways besides this game in particular.
My 3rd years are lower level than is normal, but they still enjoyed the physical aspect of going from group to group asking for information.
This is a video of a slide show I made to instruct how to do this activity to the students. And you can also download the presentation if you use projectors or TV’s in your classroom.
This is an 11 page document. The first 10 pages all have 7-8 characters named, but all 10 are unique. Each character appears on 2 different pages. I have 9-10 groups in my third year classes this year. If you don’t have 10 groups then one page can be discarded without thought and all the characters will have at least one page with their names on it. Once you discard a second or third page you have to be careful that the discarded pages don’t feature the same named characters.
The 11th page is a master copy containing all character names. You can disregard the entire “Information gap” concept and just print this master copy for all the groups if you want. It is intended to be used by the teachers when checking the student’s answers.
PDF is the safest to print now. The word docs are there if you want to adjust things or rename things yourself.
This is the worksheet. One per student.
These are the mission cards for the activity. You will need to supply your own cardboard box. Then cut these out and stuff them into the box.
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