Lie detector: Talk About Plans with Present Continuous
A fun and easy online-friendly pair or group activity for your beginner students to talk about plans with the present continuous.
How to use this activity?
If working as a group, ask a student to choose a sentence, read it aloud, and then ask “And you, …?“
Here, they will choose a classmate’s name. The classmate will then answer with one of the 4 short responses in the bubbles. Make sure they choose a grammatically correct one based on whether the original sentence is affirmative or negative.
After they answer, the group must decide if they are telling the truth or lying. If possible, ask for reasons why they believe or do not believe the responder. For every student who is stumped, the responder gets a point. The responder then chooses the next sentence and reads it aloud… and so on!
“Carl isn’t eating dinner alone tonight.”
And you?
– Me neither! I’m having dinner with my dog.
You can also have your students work in pairs and ask each other questions before trying to decide if their classmate is telling the truth when they talk about plans using the present continuous.
For one-to-one classes, feel free to adapt the number of questions to your student and use this game as a lie detector!
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