ESL/EFL Speaking – Mingling Activity

Hand out this survey to your students. They should mingle around the room and take down their
colleagues' responses.
I. Discuss the results at the end.
1 What colour do you associate with intelligence?
2 What colour do you associate with happiness?
3 What colour do you associate with wealth?
4 What colour do you associate with religion?
5 What colour do you associate with badness?
6 What colour do you associate with goodness?
7 What colour do you associate with powerfulness?
8 What colour do you associate with style?
9 What colour do you associate with death?
10 What colour do you associate with poverty?
11 What colour do you associate with luck?
12 What colour do you associate with attractiveness?
13 What colour do you associate with family?

II. dioms and expressions

1. Blackmail -.
2. Blacklist –
3. Blue blood -
4. Feel blue -
5. See red -
6. Give the green light –
7. In the red -
8. Whitewash something -
9. Yellow belly –
10. Green-eyed monster –

A. Someone from an aristocratic or royal family.

B. To give someone permission to proceed with something.
C. To extort money from someone by threatening him/her.
D. Put someone's name on a list if he/she breaks the rules.
E. Feel sad and depressed.
F. To be in debt.
G. To be extremely angry.
H. Jealousy.
I. To cover up the faults of something.
J. Cowardly.