First Day of Class. Speaking Games

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Conversation Questions

3. Conversation Questions

Name 3

4. Name 3

Funny Tongue Twisters
• Red lorry, yellow lorry.
• How much wood could a woodchuck
chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
• She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
• A big black bug bit a big black bear.
• Divers dive deep in the deep blue sea.
• Can you can a can as a canner can a can?
• Kitty caught the kitten eating chicken in
the kitchen.

5. Funny Tongue Twisters

Would You Rather…?
• Have English class on Mondays
or Fridays?
• Go to school in the morning or at night?
• Write in pink pencil or in yellow pencil
all the time?
• Have homework every day or never
have homework?
• Study for exams every day or every week?
• Watch a film or play games during
English class?
• Have pencils for hair or erasers for eyes?

6. Would You Rather…?

Silly Scenarios
You go to school and there is chocolate on
the walls of your classroom!

7. Silly Scenarios

You go to school and your teacher is a dog!

8. Silly Scenarios

You open your pencil case and all your
erasers are marshmallows!

9. Silly Scenarios

You open your book and someone has
drawn pictures in it!

10. Silly Scenarios

You go to school and it’s Saturday!
School is closed!

11. Silly Scenarios

English Class Shopping List
Instructions:
One student starts a sentence with ‘I need to
buy...’ and says an object, e.g. ‘a pencil’. The next
student must remember that object and add their
own, e.g. ‘I need to buy a pencil and an eraser’.
Continue for as long as you can. For extra points,
see if you can do it in alphabetical order.

12. English Class Shopping List

3X3 Game
Teacher instructions:
Use the grid in this slide (or you can make your own) with characters,
actions and places/days/people. Put students into teams and you
write a sentence using one phrase from each column. Students have
one minute to write a sentence and then go around the class, with
teams taking turns to guess your answer. Keep going until one team
guesses your sentence correctly.
The English teacher
eats chocolate
at home
The student
studies for an exam
in the classroom
The superhero
draws on the table
in the playground

13. 3X3 Game

Class Conversations
Two students begin by reading the conversations
and continue however they want.
A: Would you like
to come to my
house after school?
A: ………….
B: Yes, where
is your house?
B: ………….

14. Class Conversations

Two students begin by reading the conversations
and continue however they want.
A: Can you
help me with
my homework?
A: ………….
B: Yes, what is
the problem?
B: ………….

15. Class Conversations

Two students begin by reading the conversations
and continue however they want.
A: Hi, what’s
your name?
A: ………….
B: Hello!
My name is
………….
B: ………….

16. Class Conversations

Thanks for playing!