• The class divides into pairs.
• Each has to think of a story to tell the other--for example, the plot of a recent TV play or film they have seen.
• At a signal from the teacher, they both start telling each other the story at the same time.
• They must look at each other in the eye without looking away, and they must keep talking without a break and without laughing.
• If either breaks down, the other has "won."

• One person tells the rest of the group a story, or gives them a talk on a set subject.
• The others interrupt him by asking totally unrelated questions.
• The speaker must answer the questions and then continue with the story or talk without hesitation, and from exactly the point where he left off.

• The class divides into pairs. In each pair, one is the questioner and the other the answerer.
• The questioner asks questions in rapid succession.
• The answerer must answer the questions, alternating between true answers and lies.  He must not hesitate or laugh, and he must keep strictly to the alternation.
• If the answerer hesitates or laughs, or if he fails to alternate between truth and lies, he is "out" and the partners reverse roles.

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• This rather complicated game is particularly useful with a new class who do not know each other very well.
• The class divides into pairs and each pair decides who is 'A' and who is 'B'.
• To begin with, A has to find out as much as he can about B in 2 minutes.
• At the end of that time, the As stay where they are and the Bs change partners.
• The class are then told that B is a policeman who is suspicious of A and intends to question him.
• A has to pretend that he is the B he has just questioned.  He has to remember all the details that he can from that conversation so that when the new B starts questioning him - about his name, address, and so on - he can answer with detailed information, in role as his former partner.  (When he can't remember, he is at liberty to invent.)
• Repeat the game with new partners (and with As becoming Bs).

• The class divides into pairs and decide on who is 'A' and who is 'B'.
• The teacher then gives the class a simple and straightforward topic for conversation, or a situation (e.g.: A is a local in the town and B is a stranger. B is asking the way to the station.)
• They converse for a minute or two and then the teacher interrupts with fresh instructions that alter the situation partially but not completely (e.g.: Now A is old and deaf; or, now B is a rich and famous person).
• Teacher continues to make changes, with increasing swiftness and strangeness, as the game progresses.

• The class sits in a circle and the teacher asks for a volunteer to start the game.
• The volunteer thinks of a mime--either a task or an activity--that involves a lot of people doing different things (e.g.: building a house; shopping at a supermarket).
• The volunteer begins the mime he has thought of.
• The teacher then indicates different members of the class who must join in, either assisting the first person or using the location he has chosen.
• The teacher's aim is to get as many people in the class involved as he can, and in as short as time as possible.

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