Present Simple- Third Person Guessing Game

Describing people third person S practice games

Guess the person third person S practice game

Choose one of the people below but don’t say who you are thinking of. Describe that person using expressions like those on the next page until your partner guesses who you are talking about. They can only guess once per hint.

• A bus driver
• A classmate (= a student in the same class)
• A friend
• A neighbour
• A nurse
• A police officer
• A shop assistant
• A singer that I like
• A sportsman that I like
• A waiter/ waitress
• An actor that I like
• An artist that I like
• Your aunt
• Your brother’s friend/ Your sister’s friend
• Your cousin
• Your dentist
• Your doctor
• Your father
• Your friend’s brother/ Your friend’s sister
• Your friend’s father
• Your friend’s mother
• Your grandfather
• Your grandmother
• Your head teacher
• Your host father
• Your host mother
• Your mother
• Your older brother/ Your older sister
• Your (maths/ geography/ science/ Japanese/ PE/ history/ music/ English/ …) teacher
• Your uncle
• Your younger brother/ Your younger sister

Ask about any expressions on the next page you don’t understand, people above who you can’t explain, etc, working together to match people and statements each time.

Do the same with someone who isn’t in the list above.

 

Suggested descriptions of people with third person S

He She	(doesn’t)	dance do get get up go go to have listen to live play read sing study swim talk to watch wear work	(-s) (-es) (-ies)	English History a shower baseball bed board games breakfast cards comics computer games dinner homework housework karaoke lunch magazines music school science sports television the radio the washing up … eyes … hair	at… (o’clock) at half past… at… past… at… to… in London in Hong Kong in Sydney in the USA in the morning in the afternoon in the evening at night on Mondays on …days at the weekend at home at work at school in the living room
He She	is	tall – medium-height – short fat – medium-build – slim good-looking/ handsome/ beautiful friendly/ kind/ strict/ scary/ grumpy/… … years old a teacher/ a student/ a shop assistant/ an office worker/ a…
His Her	name birthday date of birth	is…

 

Brainstorming stage

Without looking above, brainstorm vocabulary for these things:

Jobs

 

 

 

 

 

Family members

 

 

 

 

 

Other people who you know

 

 

 

 

 

Appearance

 

 

 

 

 

Personality

 

 

 

 

 

Housework

 

 

 

 

 

Look above for ideas, brainstorm more, then compare your extra ideas as a class.

 

Describing people brainstorming competition

Choose another person (in the list or someone else) and take turns making sentences that are true or are probably true about that person until someone repeats a sentence, says something that is clearly not true, or gives up. Then do the same for other people.