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WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Acting out

Activity Type Introduction

Vocabulary Game: Here is a phrasal verbs miming game to help students practice some
miming, guessing commonly used phrasal verbs.
vocabulary (group work)
Procedure
Focus Divide the students into groups of four, comprising of two teams
of two (Team A and B)
Phrasal verbs
Give each group a set of cards.
Aim
Ask the students to shuffle the cards and place them face-down
To guess phrasal verbs in a pile on the desk.
from mimes.
A member of Team A picks up a card, stands up and reads out
the introduction on the card which explains what information the
Preparation other students are looking for, e.g. 'You are looking for a place
and two phrasal verbs'.
Make one copy of the
cards for each group of
The student then performs the mime on the card to Team B who
four and cut as indicated.
has two minutes to guess the information they are looking for.

Level If Team B successfully guesses all the vocabulary, they score two
points.
Intermediate (B1)
If not, the other student in Team A can try to answer for one
point.
Time
25 minutes Then, a student from Team B picks up a card to mime to Team A
and so on.

This continues with teams taking turns to mime until all the cards
have been used.

The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

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 PHRASAL VERBS

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Acting out

You are looking for an object You are looking for a place You are looking for a place
and two phrasal verbs. and a phrasal verb. and a phrasal verb.

Mime Mime Mime

You are in bed. You wake up You are in the kitchen. You You are at the bus stop
and turn off the alarm clock. are washing up the dishes. waiting for a bus.

You are looking for a place You are looking for a place You are looking for a place
and two phrasal verbs. and two phrasal verbs. and a phrasal verb.

Mime Mime Mime

You are at a restaurant. You You ride to school. You park You go into a cafe and order
look at the menu and call your bike, but it falls down, a coffee. It tastes so bad
over the waiter. so you pick it up. that you throw it away.

You are looking for an You are looking for an

You are looking for a place
object and three phrasal object and two phrasal
and a phrasal verb.
verbs. verbs.
Mime
Mime Mime
You are in a clothes shop.
You sit down, turn on your It starts to rain. You put on
You try on a shirt and a
laptop and log in to your your coat and put up your
pair of jeans.
email. umbrella.

You are looking for an You are looking for an You are looking for an
object and two phrasal object and three phrasal object and two phrasal
verbs. verbs. verbs.

Mime Mime Mime

You see a nice picture in a You are on an airplane. You You are driving your car. It
magazine, so you cut it out put away your bag, sit down breaks down. You get out of
and put it up on the wall. and put on your earphones. the car and kick it.

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