Conversation worksheet. Students are presented with 12 characters and must choose only 5 to take with them to a new planet to restart humanity. Then they must compromise with their partner to choose 5, and then again in a group of 4. (Pyramid discussion).

Each character has positive and negative points, such as the racist farmer/hunter, or the violent chemist. 

Written by a native English speaker and useful for multiple purposes (descriptions, law and order, civilisation, debate techniques, suggestions, opinions, comparative adjectives, superlatives etc.)

Contains instructions and also a possible follow-up activity in which students role-play being on a damaged hot-air balloon approaching a desert island, and students must argue to their peers why they will be useful. Then there is a vote on who will be cast into the ocean!

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Conversation: Moving to a New World

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Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Let's do English ESL discussion starters, speaking cards. Conversation worksheet. Students are presented with 12 characters and must choose only 5 to take with…