Who do you want at your party? - English conversation games and activities for higher level students

49 ESL Conversation Games & Activities - Jackie Bolen 2020

Who do you want at your party?
English conversation games and activities for higher level students

Skills: Speaking/Listening

Time: 5-15 minutes

Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Materials Required: Nothing

This is an excellent speaking warm-up activity for higher levels. Put the students in groups of four. Have them pick four famous people, dead or alive that they'd like to invite to a party they are having. Then, they have to say the reason why they're inviting them.

Give students a few minutes to do this, depending on the level. Then, rotate the students around into new groups of four so that each group has students who were not together in their original groups to share their answers together (they can choose the top 1-2 answers to share). Or, tell students to find a partner and they have one minute to share answers. Then, find a new partner and another minute and so on.

Teaching Tips:

Students will often pick the same people and it's kind of boring. Ban some of the most common ones in your country. Or, use 2-3 of those people as your personal examples and then mention that students can't choose them too.

Procedure:

1. Put students in groups of four.

2. Each group picks four famous dead people that they'd like to have at their party.

3. They must also think about and explain why they'd like to invite him or her.

4. Students find a new partner or new group of four and share 1-2 of the answers from the previous group. If a new group of four, I give students about six minutes. If a pair, two minutes is good. Students can switch and share answers again for as long as you want the activity to last.