Choose five things you have in your bag at this moment and add five items which could be in your bag, but aren’t. Students have seven chances to guess the correct items by asking yes/no questions
(Do you have ...? Have you got ...? Is there a ...?)


Other possible scenarios (and you can probably think of more)

• Guess which furniture and objects I have in my bedroom.


• Guess which actions I always do before going to work.

• Guess which actions X never does when he stays in a hotel.

When the format is established, pairs of students can provide the lists. Confining questions to people in the class helps you all get to know one another. Questions asked about another person or student practise the third person form. This can also be an introduction to a reading comprehension, a story, a poem or a unit in the coursebook.

by Cristina Speranza (Buenos Aires, Argentina)