Between Us

In class or in a group:

What is between us? Be it obvious or abstract.

Make a list.

Here's mine from the CPE class:

Air

I don't understand

Rose tinted glasses

The humming of working brain cells

The chaos of philosophical questions

masked as C2 tasks

Shiritori

Think of a word that starts with the last letter of your opponent's word.
Win by picking longer words and answering as fast as you can!
Play HERE

Orange

All these things are of a similar colour:

1, a lifejacket | a traffic cone | a basketball

2, a carrot | a pumpkin | a black box

3, a Dorito | a tiger | a goldfish

Choose one group of three and:

1, Say three things you know about one of the words?
2, Are any things in the list that are sometimes not orange?
3, How are some things similar in each group of three?
4, Which one is the odd one out in each group? Why?
5, Which ones are useful / positive for you?
6, When was the last time you experienced one of them?

A Poetry Party

A poetry template by Joseph Fasano (Link to Twitter)

My Poem (Title)

My name is (name).

Today I feel like a/an (adjective) (noun)

    (verb)ing in the (noun).

Sometimes I am a/an (noun).

Sometimes I am a/an (noun).

I ask the world, “(question)?”

And the answer is

    a / an (repeat your words from line 2).

Here are some examples from my class:

My Reason to Live

By Aimar (aged 12)

My name is Aimar.

Today I feel like a drunk man

    trying to relax in a hot, small park.

Sometimes I am a dog.

Sometimes I am a cat.

But always I am a happy, shiny heart.

I ask the world “What is my reason to live?”

And the answer is

    a drunk man

    trying to relax in a hot, small park.

A Sloth in the Sand

(By Sofía aged 9)

Template edited for younger students

My name is Sofía

Today I feel like

    a sloth in the sand

I love my sofa

I don’t like walking

But always I am happy

I ask the world “What is life?”

And the answer is

    a sloth in the sand

CPE

Class effort (Various ages 16 +)

My name is Bob.

Today I feel like a damp sponge

absorbing the desert.

Sometimes I am a cactus.

Sometimes I am tumbleweed.

But always I am empty.

I ask the world, “Is there any real question at all?”

And the answer is 

a damp sponge

absorbing the desert.

Original Template:

True or False?

I am good at singing (T/F)

but I am not good at dancing (T/F)

I am good at writing (T/F)

but I am not good at drawing (T/F)

I am good at playing basketball (T/F)

but I am not good at playing football (T/F)

I am good at playing computer games (T/F)

but I am not good at cooking (T/F)

Joke

1, Which month has 28 days?
2, Which letter of the alphabet has the most water in it?
3, What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
4, What has to be broken before you can use it?
5, Why is number 6 afraid?
6, A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and left on Friday. How is this possible?
7, Do you know where horses go when they are ill?
8, Which room has no doors or windows?
9, Jamie's mother had three children. The first child was called April. The second child was called May. What was the name of the third child?

10, Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain?

11, Which is correct: The yolk of the egg is white or The yolk of the egg are white?
12, Why won’t the elephant use the computer?
13, What did the maths book tell the pencil?
14, Where do cows go on dates?
15, What always falls and never gets hurt?
16, What room is a dead person most afraid of?
17, What is orange and sounds like parrot?
18, What did one eye say to the other eye?

You'll have to search for the answers if you don't know them :)