Present Simple and Continuous- Guess the Person Game

Present Simple and Continuous- Guess the Person Game

Choose one of the kinds of people below and think of a real person who you know or know
about matching that category. Say what they are probably doing right now (= at exactly
this time) and/ or some information about their usual habits/ routines, until your partner
guesses who it is.

Possible topics: clothes, feelings, actions, eating and drinking, sitting or standing in
particular places, thinking

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artist (visual artist, singer, actor, musician, etc)

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athlete (e.g. footballer)

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colleague/ classmate

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cook/ chef

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entrepreneur

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family member (spouse, fiancé(e), boyfriend, girlfriend, partner, parent, guardian, sib-
ling, niece, nephew, child, grandchild, great-grandparent)

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friend

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homemaker

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line manager/ direct boss

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manual worker (builder, bin man, etc)

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medical staff (doctor, nurse, dentist, etc)

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neighbour/ housemate/ flatmate/ roommate

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newsreader

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office worker (e.g. a bank manager, a receptionist or a secretary)

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politician

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postal worker

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someone in a service job (server, shop assistant, shopkeeper, hairdresser)

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someone in education (teacher, teaching assistant, university lecturer, professor, etc)

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someone related to law and order (police officer, lawyer, security guard, etc)

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someone related to transport (taxi driver, bus driver, pilot, etc)

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student

Imagine you are showing someone a photo of this person and describe the photo and the
person to your partner. By using your imagination and answering your partner’s questions,
you should try to keep speaking about one photo as long as you can.

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2015

Without looking above for now, try to think of non-gender-specific equivalents of these
expressions:


actress

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brother or sister



businessman

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housewife or househusband



husband or wife



policeman



postman



sportsman



waiter or waitress

Look above to find possible answers.

Do you know any other words which have maybe more modern non-gender-specific
equivalents?

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2015