Updated 8 November 2020
Just after previously writing about sentence completion guessing games, I realised that the sentence stems were perfect for a bluffing game in which students completed the sentences with a mix of true and made up info – especially useful if students might not be able to think of too many true ways of completing the sentences.
Then just a couple of weeks ago it occurred to me that exactly the same gapped sentences could be used for the less exciting but more classroom dynamicsy activity of finding things in common. Two worksheets using all three ideas:
Present and past ability sentence completion games (guessing, things in common, and bluffing)
Past and present modals of obligation and permission sentence completion games (bluffing, guessing and things in common)
It’s not usually in the instructions, but nearly all of the photocopiables below could also be used all these ways, perhaps with a little bit of adaptation:
For grammar
Tenses
Present Perfect and future tenses sentence completion games (bluff, guessing and things in common)
Simple Past sentence completion guessing game
Present Simple/ Adverbs of frequency Sentence completion guessing game
Present Perfect Sentence completion guessing game and extended version
Continuous aspect sentence completion game
Unreal past sentence completion activities (things in common, bluffing and guessing game)
Conditionals
Zero conditional sentence completion guessing game
First conditional sentence completion guessing game
First conditional and countable/ uncountable sentence completion activities (bluffing, guessing and things in common) – NEW
Second conditional sentence completion guessing game
Business second conditional sentence completion guessing game
Third conditional sentence completion guessing game
Conditionals review sentence completion guessing game
Colours and conditionals sentence completion guessing game
Verb patterns
Verbs patterns sentence completion games (guessing game, bluff and things in common)
Verb plus gerund and infinitive sentence completion games (guessing game, bluff and things in common)
Verb patterns and prepositions sentence completion guessing game
Verb patterns personalised guessing game (Pre-Int version – with version 2 there the sentence completing version)
Other grammar points
First conditional and countable/ uncountable sentence completion activities (bluffing, guessing and things in common) – NEW
Should and should have things in common
Reporting verbs sentence completition games (bluffing, guessing and things in common)
ed and ing adjectives sentence completion guessing game
Adjective plus preposition sentence completion guessing game and Cutting Edge version
Adverbs of manner sentence completion guessing game
Other language points
Likes and dislikes things in common sentence completion games
Country and nationality words sentence completion games (bluffing game and two guessing games)
Free time sentence completion guessing game
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