Life events guessing and bluffing

Life events guessing and bluffing games

 

Life events guessing game 1

Guess your partner’s day today step by step from when they woke up. They will tell you if you are right or not each time. If you are scoring, you get one point each time that you guess correctly, but lose one point each time that they correct you. If you reach today/ the time that you are talking, you can also guess the rest of their day (the future part).

Useful language for doing the activity
“First,…” “Next/ Then/ After that/ Later,…”	“That’s right.” “Actually, I… before that.” “Actually, I didn’t…” “Actually, I never…” “Actually, I have never…”

 

Do the same for your partner’s life story, starting with their birth and continuing up to the present or future. Your teacher will tell you if/ when you can use the list of life events below to help.

 

Life events guessing game 2

Change partners. Choose one of the cards below and make a positive or negative statement about your partner or people they know related to that thing, and they will tell you if you are right or not.

Ask about any cards which you don’t understand, trying to make a true statement with each one.

 

Life events bluffing game

Change partners again. Choose one of the cards and make either a true statement or false statement about yourself or someone you know on that topic. Your teacher will tell you how you should choose if you should make a true statement or not (with a coin, trying to make it 50/ 50, or using your imagination if you can’t think of anything true). Small changes to true events, e.g. just changing the time, also make it false. After asking for more details, your partner will guess if the statement was true or just made up.

Useful sentence starters “I’d like to… “I will probably (never)…” “I don’t want to…” “My … … … years ago.” “I attended…”

 

 

Cards to cut up

anniversary

ask someone out/ be asked out (on a date)

baby

bank (account/ loan)/ credit card

birth

(younger) brothers and sisters/ siblings

(first) crush

(double/ blind/ romantic) date

engaged/ engagement (ring/ party)

(university entrance/ national) exam(s)

(have a big) family

fired/ sacked/ dismissed

first child

graduate (from elementary school/ high school/ university)

(become a) grandparent

honeymoon

(first/ part-time) job

kindergarten/ nursery school/ pre-school

leave home/ move out

old people’s home/ nursing home

quit/ leave/ resign

retire/ retirement

second marriage

split up

wedding (ceremony/ reception/ party)