Are You Guessing

GRAMMAR: Be-Verb & 3rd Person Pronouns     EXAMPLE: You are a student.  They are students.     DATE ADDED: May 25, 2008

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Materials Needed:

• AreYouGuessing worksheets: There are two to choose from 'Are' and 'They'.  The 'Variation Option' worksheet was designed for the option explained in the Variation section below.
• AreYouGuessing
• TheyOption
• VariationOption

Detailed Explanation:

1. Put students in pairs after practicing "Are you ~ ?" "Yes, I am./ No, I am not."
2. Students choose to a character on the right side of the worksheet and keep it a secret. Janken to see who goes first. The winning student asks the first question, for example, "Are you a student?"  The answers they receive narrow down the character until they know who it is and ask, for example, "Are you Doraemon?"
3. The winner is the first student to guess correctly. The following is a sample conversation. 
   Student One is Pooh and Student Two is Totoro
   • Student 1: Are you hungry?
   • Student 2: Yes, I am. Are you a teacher?
   • Student 1: Yes, I am. Are you from Japan?
   • Student 2: Yes, I am. Are you a student?
   • Studnet 1: No, I'm not. Are you Totoro?
   • Student 2: Yes, I am.

Variations:

• (submitted by: Raymond Corrigan)
  1. Put students in pairs after practicing:
     • "Are you ~?" (name)
     • "Are you (15/25/35) ?"
     • "Are you (a man/a woman)?"
     • "Are you from ~?" (country)
     • "Yes, I am./ No, I am not."
  2. Students choose to a character from the 'Variation Option' worksheet, write the character's name in the table at the bottom of their page and fold the bottom of their page to keep it a secret.
  3. Students janken to see who goes first. The winning student asks the first question, for example, "Are you 15?" The answers they receive narrow down the character until they know who it is and ask, for example, "Are you Bob Sapp?"
  4. The winner puts a circle in the box next to where they wrote their characters name in Step 2. The loser puts a cross in the box next to where they wrote their characters name in Step 2.
  5. Students find another partner and repeat from Step 2.

Teaching Suggestions:

• Make sure they understand the grammar structure and can pronounce the words correctly. Be especially careful with "fifteen" and "thirty".

Comments:

• (May 12, 2011) Becki said: This game really got my students practicing the target vocab (even that one naughty kid who never does any work!).
  We modified so the students sign the other students paper, in the box of the character they were impersonating. When the students had a sig in every character box, we gave em a sticker for their point card (they also had to got through last round with me).
  Worked really well.
  Thanks so much!
• (June 25, 2010) Raymond Corrigan said: Some variations with different grammar are:
  Do you..? http://jhsenglipediaproject.com/JHS_Textbook_Game_CharacterGuess.aspx
  Do you look..? http://jhsenglipediaproject.com/JHS_Textbook_Game_CharacterLooks.aspx
  Have you ... for ..? http://jhsenglipediaproject.com/JHS_Textbook_Game_FaceGuess.aspx
• (Apr 27, 2010) Carlee Miller said: This is a very simple activity, but really great for the 1st Graders as they are still pretty fresh at this point. I used this for a class of 2 students. One student was paired up with the JTE and the other with me (the ALT). We did it where one person asks the questions until they discover the other person's "secret identity" and then that person asks until they discover who you are. Worked great and could be repeated a few times!

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