Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

2.11 Guess the local place
Level
**
Language focus
Description, simple present tense
Skills focus
Writing
Thinking focus
Selecting and evaluating
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Team work, suitable for large classes
Procedure
1 Divide the class into teams. Then set the children a challenge. They have
to write three clues about a local building or place of interest. The trick
is to write ambiguous clues, so that the answer is not immediately
obvious, or could refer to more than one place. See Box 35 for 
examples.
2 Team members take turns to read out a clue. If a rival team makes an
incorrect guess, they are out of the game. If they guess the place after one
clue, they score three points; after two clues, they score two points; and
after three clues, they score one point. If no other team can guess the
place, then the writers of the clues score three points.