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Who, where and what?
Describing and guessing.
Procedure: Describe an object in the classroom, and at the end of
the description ask, 'What is it?' Follow this with a description of a
person who is known to the students. They must try to identify
what or who you have described.
You: It's got two doors, it's green and I keep books in it.
Student: The cupboard.
You: She's wearing a mauve jersey and she's sitting in the
middle of the room.
Student: Wendy.
Once the activity has become understood, individual students
describe people, places or objects for the rest of the class to
identify.
Variation: Having introduced the activity by your demonstration
of it, divide the class into two. Choose a student and whisper to
him or her the name of an object, person, place or event. The
student must then describe the object, person, place or event so
well that his or her half of the class can identify it. Repeat this
with the other half of the class. Let the two halves of the class
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