Activity 78- Reverse Charade

                 

I learned about this game by attending a workmate's workshop. It gives a little twist to a commonly used activity in the classroom: miming secret words.

Level:Any

Skill: Speaking

Material needed: set of slips with words to be guessed

Instructions: 

Explain that this game is like any other traditional miming game and that the objective is to have the word in the slip guessed correctly. Divide class into 2 or more groups. Set a time limit of one minute and tell the students that, differently from the traditional miming game, the whole team should work together to mime the word to a single person (that is the twist added to it!). If the word is guessed correctly, then the group gets a point. 

Here are some suggestions of words to be used in the game:

drive thru

Oprah Winfrey

funeral

wedding

water park

library

Spiderman

Christmas

airport

vacation

Grease

fashion show

train

zoo

sunset

internet

Source: Davi Rosa (Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasilia, Brazil), with adaptations
picture credits : http://www.flickr.com/photos/svimes/3225119224/ (Creative Commons)