Tourists and a Guide

Tourists and a Guide

Procedure :

• Each student takes one postcard either from the teacher’s collection or their own, and imagines that he/she is in that place.
• Inform the students they will take roles as tourists and guides.
• Ask the students to use 5 words to describe their pictures or the words you have given, and then they have to make 5 sentences from the pictures they have.
• One student will come forward as a guide and give a presentation based on the picture they have, while other students are called tourists who ask give several questions to the guide.
• The guide may also ask the tourists some questions after giving the presentation.

Variation :

If your resources do not stretch to a collection of postcards, this can also be done more simply by using pieces of paper with place names written on them. In this case, because there are no clues to help students, you must make sute that all the place names are familiar to the class.

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Imaginative Description

Imaginative Description

Procedure :

• Hold up two large pictures for the class and let the students see them.
• Ask the students to suggest a possible relationship between them.
• Encourage imaginative, even ridiculous ideas from the two different pictures shown by the teacher.

For example :

(The teacher is holding a picture of mountain and a picture of a book)

• Student A : “I can go to mountain and bring a book.”
• Student B : “My father found a book when he climbed the mountain.” 
• Student C : “Climbing mountain without reading a book is boring.” 
• Student D : “When I visited Slamet Mountain, I bought this book. 
• Student E : “My teacher is holding a picture of mountain and a picture of a book.”

• The connections can be personal, or they can be more objective and part of other people’s experience.

Variation :You can ask the students to imagine a connection between an/two items : picture/picture ; text/text ; picture/text. The text can be short or long, written or spoken.

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Guess the Story

Guess the Story

Procedure :

• Give the class two or three sentences taken from the story or folk tale. After that, ask them to guess the title of the story. For example :
• “Finally, she went to a party and she could dance with the prince. Unfortunetly she remembered that she must be back before 12 midnight.” (Answer : Cinderella)
• “At the end of the story this would doll with his long nose lived happily together with his father and he became a very good boy.” (Answer : Pinocchio)

• The class can directly guess the story if it is very clear, or let them ask “yes/no” questions to try to discover the target story.
• If necessary, a time or a maximum number of questions can be set before the class attempts to recreate the story for themselves, which they do orally.

Variation :


You can do this game in silence with students taking turns writing questions on the white board.

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