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Procedure: Tell the students you have an item to give away as a
gift, and the person who can give the most convincing reason why
he or she wants it will get it. The item can be something that is
really desirable (a new car or a winter coat, for example); or
something that is not (a baby crocodile or a stone) so that students
really have to use their imaginations to devise reasons why it
might be needed. See the BOX for suggestions; or use items you
happen to have in your pocket or bag.

Variation: If you have a little more time, this can be done as a
team game. For each item, each team should suggest as many
reasons for needing it as it wishes, and you decide which is the
most convincing. When you have run out of time, or the students
have had enough, count up to see which team has won the most
'gifts'.

BOX: Reasons for wanting an object

Desirable objects
a car a winter coat an armchair
a radio a stereo set a television
a bicycle a motor boat a bottle of perfume
a gold watch a box of a bottle of wine
chocolates
Not very desirable objects
an empty tin a stone a baby crocodile
a paper bag a bit of string a used envelope
a bone an old a single shoe
a feather newspaper a playing card
a bucket of mud

Recalling words

Vocabulary review.

Procedure: Write on the board between 15 and 20 words the
students have recently learnt, or that you think they know. Make

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