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Charades
Age/Level: Any Time: 20 minutes Players: 2 teams Preparation: A list of vocabulary

Aim: To use actions to describe a word

This amusing ESL miming game can be played by students of all ages and levels. Before
you play, have a list of vocabulary items ready.

Procedure

Take two chairs and place them facing away from the board.

Divide the class into two teams.

One student from each team comes to the front of the class and sits facing their team with
their back to the board.

Write a word from your list on the board.

The aim of the game is for the students in the teams to use actions to describe the word.
They cannot speak or spell the word in the air.

The students in the seats watch their teammates and try to guess the word.

The first student to say the word wins a point for their team. That student then changes
places with someone in their team.

The other team has to keep the same player in the seat until he or she answers correctly
first.

Then the next word is written on the board, and so on.

The team with the highest number of points at the end is the winner.

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