B2 Vocabulary

FIRST

1B Guess the word

Aim
B2 Vocabulary
to review arts and media vocabulary FIRST

1B Guess the word

Activity type
describing and guessing vocabulary
SELF-PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH BEAUTY
Classroom dynamics Don’t use:
• paint
Don’t use:
• take
Don’t use:
• ugly
groups of three or four • yourself • picture • look

Time taken
DISPLAY DYE SOUNDTRACK
20 minutes
Don’t use: Don’t use: Don’t use:
• look • colour • music
• museum • change • film
Preparation
You will need one copy of the activity sheet per group cut
up into cards. ELECTRONIC
INFLUENCE HEADLINE
DEVICE
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Procedure
• impact • newspaper
• gadget • change • interest
• phone
1 Tell students that you are going to describe a word or
phrase without using any common words. Demonstrate
the task with a strong student. Ask the student to come to HYPE TABLOID SURVEY
the front of the class. Give the student a piece of paper Don’t use: Don’t use: Don’t use:
• interesting • newspaper • people
with the word LOGO on it and Don’t use: company, • important • story • opinion

product. Ask the student to try and explain the word

without using any of the words on the paper or words
derived from them, e.g. produce. The rest of the class
should try to guess what word is being described.
2 Elicit phrases that can be used to paraphrase information,
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such as: What I’m trying to say is …; In other words …;
3

This is a type of …; It can be used for … . Write these

phrases on the board so that students can refer to them
during the activity.
3 Organise the class into small groups. Hand out a set of
cards to each group, which they should place face down
on their desks. Students should take turns to pick up a
card and describe the word or phrase in capitals without
saying any of the words on the card. The other students
in the group should guess what the word or phrase is.
Encourage them to use some of the phrases on the board.
4 The activity continues until all the cards have been used
and all the words have been described. The student
who has guessed the most words in each group wins the
activity.

Adaptation and extension

As a follow-up activity, students draw as many of the terms
as they can in 30 seconds for their team to guess. This could
be done on the board as a whole-class activity or on a sheet
of paper as pairwork.