Just a Minute/Blockbusters Mashup

Class Procedure and Rules

Divide the class into two teams, orange and green, show the blockbusters power
point. The green team's objective is to make a line of tiles from left-to-right
across the board, while the orange team has to do the same but from top-tobottom.
Teams claim a tile by speaking about a topic for a minute with no hesitation,
repetition or deviation. For lower levels you could change the time limit to 30
seconds and be more lenient with hesitation repetition and deviation. Students
nominate one member of their team to go first.
The team decides which tile they want to try to claim. The teacher chooses a
question from the list or a topic from the "Just a Minute" topic cards. The student
must then speak for a minute about the topic, if they hesitate, repeat themselves
or deviate from the topic the teacher stops the stop-watch and a member of the
opposing team can try to talk for the rest of the minute to claim the tile for their
team.
Useful language
Time Buyers
Well, let me see
Thats an interesting
question.

Rephrasing/Clarifying
What Im trying to say
is
What I want to say is
I mean

Topic Nomination
Speaking of (Speaking
of living abroad my sister
is currently living in)
That reminds me
Before I forget

Addition
Whats more
Also
On top of that
Besides that
as well

Discourse Markers
Obviously,
Sadly,
(un)fortunately,
Probably the (most
important)