Present Continuous "What am I doing?"

ACTIVITY
Whole class; speaking

AIM
To mime an activity for the class of the class to guess.

GRAMMAR AND FUNCTIONS
Present continuous


VOCABULARY
Everyday and leisure activities


MATERIALS AND PREPARATION

Worksheet | Teacher's notes

Make one copy of the worksheet for each team of five to eight students and cut it up into mime cards as indicated

TIME
30 minutes

PROCEDURE

1. Ask the students to watch you and guess what you are doing. Mime something simple like eating a pizza. You do not have to be a brilliant mime artist, but it is essential that you are willing to mime enthusiastically and not be embarrassed-this will put students at ease when it is their turn to do a mime. When you are miming encourage the students to call out guesses as soon as they have an idea. Make sure that they are using the present continuous. If necessary, mime another activity, for example, making a cup of tea.
2. Tell the students that they are going to take it in turns to mime an activity for the other students to guess. Before they begin, divide them into teams of five to eight.
3. Decide which team is going to play first and ask them to choose a student to do the first mime.
4. Give the first player a mime card and explain to the class that, while he/she is miming the activity, only the members of his/her team are allowed to call out guesses. If his/her team do not guess the activity correctly, the other teams are allowed to guess. Teams score two points for a correct guess.
5. Continue until the mime cards have been used. The team with the highest score are the winner.

OPTION
If you think that your students may be embarrassed to mime in front of the whole class, or if you have a very large class, make one copy of the worksheet for each group of five to eight students and ask them to do the activity in their groups.[source: Reward Elementary Resource Pack]

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