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16.Who was the Queen of Egypt twice? (Cleopatra, 51-48 BC
and 47-30 BC. Her brother was king for one year, then Julius
Caesar helped Cleopatra to get her throne back again.)
17.Who arrived in Australia before Captain Cook? (The
Aborigines were there 20,000 years before the Europeans. The
first Europeans were the Portuguese in the 16th century.)
18.Which island was first seen from a Dutch ship on Easter Day in
1772? (Easter Island)
19.Which are the winter months in the Southern Hemisphere?
(June to August)
20.Who was the close friend and assistant of Sherlock Holmes?
(Dr Watson)
Getting to know someone

Sharing information and getting to know other students.

Procedure: Ask the students to list three or four things they like to
know about people they have just met. Working in pairs, each
student then chooses one of the areas in the other student's list and
asks them questions about it.
Variation: Working in groups, the students can pool the things
they like to know about other people. They then take it in turns to
choose an area of interest and to ask the others questions about it.

Guessing

Yes/no questions and answers.

Procedure: Choose an object, animal or person, and tell the
students which of these categories it belongs to. They have to
guess what it is. Encourage 'narrowing-down' questions, and give
generous hints if the guessing slows down or seems not to be
progressing towards the right answer. The student who guesses the
answer chooses the next thing to be guessed.

Variations: Instead of defining the item to be guessed by saying

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