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continue to take turns and see which half of the class recognises
the most descriptions.

Why have you got a monkey in your bag?

Imaginative questions and answers.

Procedure: Empty a bag - yours or one of the students'. Go up to
one of the students, give him or her the bag and ask:
Why have you got a monkey in your bag?
The student has to think of a convincing or original reason
why there is a monkey in his or her bag. After giving the reason
and answering any questions from the rest of the class, he or she
then takes the bag and goes up to another student with the same
question, only this time using another object, for example:
Why have you got an axe in your bag?
And so on.
This is a good activity for light hearted relaxation: after exams,
for example, or at the end of term.

Why might you . . .?

Conditionals.

Procedure: Suggest an unlikely action, and ask the students if they
can imagine under what circumstances they might do it. You may
or may not wish to instruct them to make full conditional
sentences.
For example:
Why might you stand on your head?
Possible answers:
If I were performing in a circus, I might stand on my
head.
If I wanted to look at something upside down . . .
See the box for other possible examples.

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