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Hi,
I'm teaching a few adult classes all of which are ending soon. Does anyone have any good ideas for fun communication activities that I could use on the last day.
Thanks

Hi Wheels,
Yep. Put them into pairs or groups, walk them across the road to the nearest public house and teach them vocabulary related to drinking, or alternatively have you ever played 'Hidden Sentences' ?(Klippel: Keep Talking, 1984, p.39).

Two teams, one member from each have to have a conversation, but they have to choose a sentence first and say the sentence word for word that you've written on it e.g. 'I love Italian food', in the conversation. To start them off you give them a topic to talk about, which could be completely unrelated to the sentence so their job is to steer the conversation is such a direction that when they do say the sentence it will not be detected by the other team. If they manage this they get eg 2 points, if the other team detects it, they get one point, if the sentence isn't used they lose points. etc.

Actually why not combine this game and the pub. Oh my god - the perfect lesson!

Hanka

Here are some ideas:

1) Begin class by describing someone in the class, and let students guess who it is. Then get each student to write out descriptions of 2 students. After they've had some time to write, go around and get them to read the descriptions. See if their classmates can guess who they wrote about.

2) Collect pens of half of the students. Distribute them randomly to the other half of the students. Tell the second half of students that they have to find the owner of the pen and sit with him/her and form a pair. Now give each student a piece of paper and an envelope. Everyone writes their name and address on the envelope, then trades with their partner. Instruct each student to write a letter to their partner, but they must go sit somewhere else in the classroom to write it. Tell them to write their thoughts and feelings about the class. When they are finished, collect the letters and mail them on the last day of classes.

3) Tape pieces of paper to everyone's backs (or you can use post-it notes). Have students walk around and write what positive things they will remember about that student on his or her back.

4) Write the word MEMORIES in big letters on the top of the blackboard. Encourage students to go up and write their favorite memories of the class (starting with "I remember when...").

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