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Yes No Laugh
Age/Level: Elementary and above Time: 25 minutes Players: Individual

Preparation: None

Aim: To ask and answer yes/no questions

This amusing ESL game is useful for teaching or revising yes/no questions and short
answers.

Procedure

Ask the students to write 10 to 15 yes/no questions. Tell the students that they will ask these
questions to one another. When they have finished writing their questions, write the words,
Yes, No, and Laugh on the board. Then cross them out.

Make a scoreboard for the game. Draw a happy face for the 'winners' and a sad face for the
'losers'. Seat the students in a horseshoe shape and put a chair in the middle facing the
horseshoe.

Explain that you are going to sit in the chair for one minute. During that time, the students
ask you questions going from one end of the horseshoe to the other.

The students' job is to ask you questions that will make you use the words 'yes', 'no' or to
make you laugh.

Your job is to answer the questions without saying yes or no. Smiling is allowed, but not
laughing!

Example:

Student: Are you happy?

Teacher: I am.

Next student: Do you have a car?

Teacher: I don't.

Next student: Do you like Vietnam?

Teacher: Sure, I love it!

Next student: Can you play football?

Teacher: A little

Next student: Can you say yes?

Teacher: No. Ah!

The teacher has lost the game. He/She then writes his/her name under the sad face.

In turn, each student sits in the chair and tries to survive for one minute without saying yes or
no or laughing. If a player can survive one minute, write their name under the happy face.
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