A selection of English ESL guess what printables

This worksheet takes its' theme from the popular TV and radio program "What's My Line" where people try to guess/work out the occupation of the card holder.



The first page of this Word document is the background for the cards and the second page is ten occupations. These two pages should be printed 'back to back', then laminated and cut out for a longer life.



Page two can easily be expanded and edited to include other occupations. (I have 30 occupations printed and this is quite enough!)



The rules of the game are up to you but I have found that the '20 questions' approach with 'Yes' or 'No' type answers works well.



It's also a good idea to have a list of possible questions available for your students for the first couple of times they play the game. For example: Do you wear a uniform? Is this job done mostly by men? Do you work outside?, etc.



A competent educator can make this exercise work for almost any level of English



Good luck and thank you for downloading this fun activity.

What's My Line

here is another of my guessing games, you give each student  this worksheet, on flashcards you have written the names of each object, one pupil comes to your desk and take one flasshcard , the others ask him questions to guess what it is ,  you take off the object once it has been found  the one who found comes to yoour desk in his turn. you can change the question for do you have?

school things  , guessing game

Ask your students to use their imagination to guess what they're going to do or say. They might confuse be going to with present continuous. For example, Mario is shaving, what's he going to after shaving? Some think he's going to work, others think he's going to save the princess. Practice as many verbs as possible.

What do you think they're going to do or say?

students have to mime what is in their card so the others guess what it is

image and action

Students practice descibing jobs: jobs vocabulary as well activity and place related to jobs. Step by step, they learn how to describe a particular job. At the end, they are able to give an accurate description of the activity and place related to a different job so that the other students can guess what job it is.

Describing jobs

	Jobs- a guessing game

21 conversation cards to practise vocab connected with jobs. Print,cut out the cards,laminate if you wish to do so, put them on the table face downwards. Students divided into groups take turns and read the description of a given job line by line starting from the most general one to the most specific. The rest of the students are to guess which job is being described. If they guess after the first line (the most general line) they are given seven points, after the second , six etc. Remember to make sure students know the vocab used to describe all the jobs. As a follow-up activity you may ask students to prepare their own cards describing other professions. In this way your collection of cards may becom much bigger. Enjoy!





What's my job?

This is a game that I created to help my students practice the English that they had learnt. I taught them certain questions and how to respond to those questions in a lesson. The lesson after I introduced the game to get them to practice what they had learnt. It's a group or couple exercise where they are given a celebrity and information about that celebrity. The group or other individual asks the questions and writes the answers that the 'celebrity' has given and with the information they have to guess which celebrity it is. It's a good ice-breaker.

Guess Who Celebrity Edition

A simple "fill in" worksheet to find out what your students' favourite things are. 

Activity afterwards: read some answers and let your students guess the classmate whose worksheet you've read the answers from.

This is me

The first of a series of games I imagined for young learners of special needs students , here about daily routines. You give each student a ws, you have prepared flashcards with one activity written on each card. Then you ask one pupil to take one ( he can sit at your desk) the others have to ask him questions to guess what he has taken , then the winner comes in his place

Guessing game : Do you watch TV every day?

One person gives the definition. Others have to guess what he is talking about.

theatre

Cut the pictures and  descriptions. First, hand out the pictures and students discuss what is happening and guess where. Then introduce the captions and ask students o work to together to match them to the pictures.

Picture matching to descriptions

This is a extreme sports posters or a set of flashcards if you cut them all. You can put it in your classroom and do a chat with your students to ask them what sport is the most dangerous, which one is their favourite...You can also play with your students to act and guess what sport is it.

EXTREME SPORTS POSTER 

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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