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What were you doing when the boss came in?
Activity type
Matching game and role-play
Number of students
Minimum 8; maximum 20.
Business functions practised
Describing office activities; negotiating and persuading
Lexical area
Routine office tasks and habits
Grammar involved
Past Continuous tense in combination with the Past Simple
Setting up
Photocopy Game Sheets a and b depending on the number of students in your class. Cut out as many of the ten role-card pairs as you will need. Give each student a role-card.
Playing the game
Step1
The object of the game is for every student to find his or her partner with the corresponding role-card. To do this, students move around the room telling one another what they were doing when the boss came in and listening for the activity their office-mate was engaged in at the same time. When partners have been found, the pairs should describe their office activities to the class. New vocabulary can be gathered on the board.
Step 2
If you want to extend die activity, pairs can now be given the role-play cards for Step 2 on Game Sheet c (Colleagues A, B, C, and D) and asked to work out their differences. End the activity with a brief discussion of the results as a class.
Game Sheet a
Game Sheet b
Game Sheet c
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