Describing objects 'Lost and Found'

ACTIVITY
Groupwork; speaking

AIM
To find lost objects by describing them.

GRAMMAR AND FUNCTIONS
Describing objects

VOCABULARY
Adjective to describe objects
Materials


MATERIALS AND PREPARATION

Worksheet 27a | Worksheet 27b | Teacher's notes

Make one copy of Worksheet 27a and 27b for each each group of three to five students. Cut them up into cards as indicated. Make one copy of Worksheet 27a for each group and do not cut it up.

TIME
20 minutes

PROCEDURE

Tell the students that you lost an object yesterday, for example a bag. Elicit the question What's it like? and describe it.
For example:
It's small and made of leather.

Now tell the students that they are going to play a game by describing objects they have lost, using pictures as prompts.

Ask the students to work in groups of three to five.

Give one copy of the intact Worksheet 27a to each group and allow the students a few minutes to look at it. Point out that thre are three different versions of each object, for example a square, silk scarf, a short wool scarf and a long wool scarf. You might want to elicit from the students words they could use to describe the other objects.
For example:
watch: large/small, round/square
jacket or coat: short/long, (made of) leather/wool
bag: small/large, (made of) leather/plastic
address book: long/square, thin/thick, (made of) leather/plastic
purse: small/large, round/rectangular/long, (made of) leather/plastic

Now give one copy of Worksheet 27a and 27b cut up into cards to each group. Explain that for every picture card with LOST marked on it there is an identical card with FOUND marked on it. Make sure the students understand the meaning of LOST and FOUND.

Now ask each group of students to shuffle their LOST and FOUND cards together. Explain how to play the game using the instructions below.

The students are ready to play the game. While they are playing, go round to each group and check they are playing correctly.

HOW TO PLAY THE GAME

Each player takes six cards. They must now show their cards to the other players. Leave the rest of the cards in a pile, face down.

If a player has got two identical picture cards, one with LOST and one with FOUND marked on it, he/she puts them back to the bottom of the pile and takes two new cards.

Player A chooses one of his/her cards and tells the rest of the group, without showing his/her card, that he/she has either lost or found the object on the card. For example, if the card has got a picture of a scarf and the word LOST marked on it, Student A says Yesterday I lost a scarf. If the card has got a picture of a scarf and the word FOUND marked on it, Player A says Yesterday I found a scarf.

The students on Player A's left (Player B) then asks Player A to describe the object, by saying What's it like?

Player A describes the object and the other players in the group decide whether they have got a picture card showing the same object. If the description does not match another player's picture card, Player A picks up a card from the top of the pile and it is Player B's turn to play.

If another player thinks he/she has got a card showing the same object, he/she gives the card to Player A and asks Is this it? If the objects are the same, Player A puts the two identical picture cards back to the bottom of the pile. If the objects are not identical, Players A and B both pick up a card from the top of the pile and it is Player B's turn to play.

The game continues until the first player has got rid of all his/her cards. This player is the winner. [source: Reward Elementary Resource Pack]

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