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With a partner, describe the underlined words to another pair of two players without
saying them. Furthermore, you also aren't allowed to say the three words below. A
restroom shopping mall subway gas
toilet shopping centre underground petrol
bathroom buy MRT car
dirty shop train smell

high school round trip fries soccer

secondary school return ticket chips football
study one-way McDonalds Manchester United
university go back French Arsenal

check cell phone freeway mail

bill mobile phone motorway post
restaurant Samsung big road letter
finish Nokia fast post office

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With a partner, describe the underlined words to another pair of two players without
saying them. Furthermore, you also aren't allowed to say the three words below. B
movie apartment vacation pants
film flat holiday trousers
TV live trip clothes
watch HDB travel belt

sidewalk elevator faucet railroad

pavement lift tap railway
road stairs sink train
walk building water tracks

license plate garbage TV station notebook

number plate rubbish TV programme laptop
car bin TV show computer
identify trash TV channel windows

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Activity Instructions
Language Focus: Unspecific
Vocabulary Focus: British and American English
Level: Intermediate
Skill: Speaking
Time: 20 minutes
Organisation: Students work in groups of four with two teams
of two
Stage: Vocabulary speaking practice
Suggested Method:

Copy one sheet per pair of students, and cut the sheets up into A and B.

Put the students into groups of four, with two A students and two B students.

Focus students' attention on the instructions and make sure students aren't
looking at each other's sheets. Emphasise that the teams must explain the words
to each other without saying the three words underneath. If the team successfully
explains the word it gets a point. If the team doesn't manage to explain the word
(a time limit of 2 minutes is useful) it doesn't get any points. Note that if a
member of the team says one of the three forbidden words underneath, the
opposing team gets a point.

Teams can keep the score on a piece of paper and the team with the most
points, wins.

Monitor the students, providing language input or error correction when

necessary.

Finally elicit responses from some of the students and draw to their attention
any appropriate vocabulary or serious language mistakes.

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