13 The ‘Terribly Stressed’ game

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Start at P. Say the next ten letters of the Find an anagram of TEAM.
alphabet.
Answer: (P) Q R S T U V W X Y Z Answer: meat or mate or tame


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Spell window backwards
Say ‘yellow lemon’ five times quickly.
Answer: wodniw


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Count from 1 to 21 – but only say every
Can you remember? What was the first
second number (for example 1, 3, 5)
question in this game?
Answer: 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21


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Start at D. Say the next ten letters of Count backwards from 102 to 97.
the alphabet.
Answer: (D) E F G H I J K L M N Answer: 102, 101, 100, 99, 98, 97


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Say two words with the letters AI in Find an anagram of RATS.
them (for example RAIN )
Answer: train, main, fail, Answer: star


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Name six colours. Spell cough backwards.
For example: red, blue, green, orange,
pink, purple, white, black, yellow Answer: hguoc


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Say the five letters that come before W
Say ‘six sick sheep’ five times quickly. in the alphabet.
Answer: R S T U V (W)


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Say how many months have 28 days. Find an anagram of POST.

Answer: ALL of them do!!! Answer: stop or tops

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Count backwards from 23 to 17. Say how many minutes there are in two
and a half hours.
Answer: 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17 Answer: 150


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Only two words in English end with Which word in the English language is
-GRY. Say both of them. most often pronounced wrongly?
Answer: hungry and angry Answer: wrongly !!

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 13 The ‘Terribly Stressed’ game
Activity
Pairwork. Game.

Focus
Speaking.

Preparation
Photocopy one set of task cards for each pair. Cut the cards
up into separate sets.

Procedure
• Pairwork. Hand out the cards. The task cards should be
face-down.
• Explain that every student should try to get their partner
very stressed!
• Students take turns picking up one task card and reading
it aloud to their partner. (N.B. Tell them not to read the
answer!) The partner cannot see the card – and is not
allowed to write anything. Their partner only has one
chance at each task. If they make a single mistake they
have lost!
• Every time someone loses a task their partner must
point at them and say ‘You’re getting very, very stressed’.
(You can write this line on the board and get the class to
practise saying it a few times.) The failed player gets ten
‘stress points’.
• The winner is the person who has fewest points at the
end.

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