Teaching "Speaking" Part 6

Who Were they? 

By. Susan Kay

 

ACTIVITY: Group work: reading, speaking

AIM:

To answer questions in a quiz about famous people from history and fiction.

GRAMMAR AND Functions:

Past simple questions and short answers

VOCABULARY: General

PREPARATION:

Make one copy of the worksheet for each group of three to five students.

TIME: 40 minutes

PROCEDURE :

1. Divide the class into teams of three to five students. Ask each team to think of a famous person from the past, without telling the rest of the class who it is. They write a clue to this person's identity and a representative of each team reads it out. The other teams guess who the person was.

2. Explain to the class that they are going to answer questions in a quiz about famous people from history and fiction.

3. Give one copy of the worksheet to each team and point out the example at the top.

4. Each team appoints one person to read out the questions to the rest of the team and to write in the answers.

5. Tell the students that they have got 20 minutes to read the questions and write in the answers they know.

6. After 20 minutes, or when the first team has finished the quiz, check the answers with the whole class. Teams get two points for each correct name and one point for knowing whether the person really existed or not. The team with the most points is the winner.