Do you like to ...? - English conversation games and activities for higher level students

49 ESL Conversation Games & Activities - Jackie Bolen 2020

Do you like to ...?
English conversation games and activities for higher level students

Skills: Speaking/Listening

Time: 15 minutes

Level: Intermediate

Materials Required: Strips of paper (or students can make their own)

Give each student five strips of paper. On each piece of paper they write something interesting about themselves. I usually suggest some general categories like sports, hobbies, family, job, etc. Then, collect them, mix them up and distribute them back to your students (three per student). At this point, everyone stands up and goes around the class asking questions to try to find the owner for each paper that they have. If someone is done early, give them another paper from the reserve pile that you have.

For example,

✵ Did you go to ... middle school?

✵ Do you have a twin brother?

✵ Do you love to play soccer?

To make this into a conversational activity, require that students ask some follow-up questions upon finding their match. Higher-level students can usually think of these questions on the spot. However, I generally give lower-level students some time to write questions on the back of each slip of paper before beginning.

Teaching Tip:

Students need to write down interesting and unique things about themselves. For example, “I go to XYZ university” is something that every other student in the class will say yes to so it is not a good thing to use.

Procedure:

1. Give students five strips of paper (or they provide their own).

2. Students write down one interesting thing about themselves on each paper.

3. Collect papers and redistribute (three per student).

4. Students stand up and go around the class, asking their classmates, “Do you have a twin brother?” “Can you play the piano really well?” based on what is on their papers.

5. If it's a match, they get one point and that paper is “finished.”

6. Students must ask a certain number of follow-up questions before they get a point.

7. If a student finds all their matches, they can get one or two more papers from the reserve pile.