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because of the heavy snow. While you are stuck
indoors, what do you do?

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reveal your
scenario

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for 60
seconds!

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 You wake up on day in December and
the weather is hot and sunny!

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picture to
reveal your
scenario

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for 60
seconds!

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 Your dad asks you to clear all the
snow in your street!

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picture to
reveal your
scenario

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for 60
seconds!

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 You go to school, but the school has
been overrun with moose!

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picture to
reveal your
scenario

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for 60
seconds!

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 It snowed too much and you’re
stuck in the house for 5 days!

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reveal your
scenario

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 Winter Shopping List

t r uct i ons
Ins

One student starts a sentence with ‘I need

to buy...’ and says an object, e.g. ‘tomato
soup’. The next student must remember
that object and add their own, e.g. ‘I need
to buy tomato soup and mittens’ Continue
for as long as you can. For extra points,
see if you can do it in alphabetical order.
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favourite Winter ways to stay
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2 sport winter.
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beautiful thing about What’s the best
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in winter?
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bears or
penguins?

Hot chocolate or Sleep in an igloo

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lights?
Experience polar
Snowball fight or night or midnight
3 a
making 6
sun?
snowman?
 3x3
Teacher
Instructions
Use the grid in this slide (or you can make your own) with characters,
actions and places. Put students into teams and you write a sentence
using one phrase from each column. Students have one minute to write
a sentence and then go around the class, with teams taking turns to
guess your answer. Keep going until one team guesses your sentence
correctly.

is drinking hot
A polar bear on the iceberg
chocolate
is knitting
A snowman while skating
a scarf
A yeti is throwing snowballs in the igloo
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the ton o can
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begin. 2 Shiny snow shows snowflakes.

3 Igor’s icy igloo has icicles inside.

4 Chilly chipper children cheerfully chant.

5 How many deer would a reindeer reign

if a reindeer could reign deer?