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Games and other useful resources

Game: Don’t Say It!

Use this game to practise vocabulary.

Each player takes one page. Player Two must guess each CAPITALISED word on

Player One’s page without Player One saying any of the non-capitalised words. Swap

and repeat.

PLAYER ONE:

WHEEL

Car Bicycle Road

COMPUTER

Desktop Laptop Mouse

TRAIN

Tracks Opal Card

Ticket

SUN

Hot Sky

Yellow

UNIVERSITY

Study TAFE

Masters

CINEMA

Movie Film

Theatre

BICYCLE

Wheel Car Tyre

QUEUE

Line Wait

MOBILE PHONE iPhone

Samsung Call

POLICE

Blue Arrest

Authority

VEGETARIAN

Meat Vegetables

UMBRELLA

Rain Wet Dry

JOURNALIST

Writer Story

Newspaper

HOLIDAY

Trip Vacation

CAFÉ

Coffee Food

Waiter/Waitress

CAT

Dog Tail Fur

PLAYER TWO:

THEATRE

Operation Play

Performance

APPLE

Fruit Red Bite

SMILE

Grin Teeth Happy

LAWYER

Advice Legal

Legal Aid

AUSTRALIA

Country Sydney

Here

HAT

Sun Shade Head

PEN

Write Draw Ink

TEACHER

School Classroom Children

FAMILY

Mother Father

Brother/Sister

MATHS

Calculator Numbers

SHOPPING

Money Food

Westfield

KEY

Door Lock Open

HEADACHE

Head Pain Sick

DENTIST

Smile Teeth

LIGHT BULB

Light Lamp

Electricity

BUS

Transport Ticket

Opal Card

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Game: Guess Who

Use this game to practise describing people.

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Sample Questions

Questions with ‘DOES’

Does your person have a moustache/beard?

Does your person have a long/pointed/tube-shaped/potato-shaped nose?

Does your person have sunglasses?

Does your person have curly/wavy/straight/spiky hair?

Does your person have no hair?

Does your person have grey hair?

Does your person have his/her mouth open/his/her eyes closed?

Does your person have earrings?

Does your person have thick lips?

Questions with ‘IS’

Is your person bearded?

Is your person bald?

Is your person happy?

Is your person a guy (a man) or a girl (a woman)?

Questions with ‘IS’+VERB-ING

Is your person wearing a bandana/hat/ baseball cap?

Is your person wearing a striped jacket?

Is your person wearing patterned clothing?

Is your person wearing anything on their head?

Is your person wearing headphones/glasses/sunglasses/goggles?

Is your person showing his/her teeth?

Is your person standing in front of a chequered/dotted/striped background?

Questions with ‘CAN’

Can you see your person’s eyes/teeth?

Game: Stop the Bus

Use this game to practise vocabulary.

Player One goes through the alphabet in their head. When Player Two says ‘Stop the Bus’, Player

One tells the Player Two what letter they are on. It is then a race between both players to

complete the table below. Players share their answers, then swap roles and repeat.

Letter

Country Food Place Object Put it in a sentence Points

Connect English Online Resources

In addition to your resource packs, we’ve put together a list of online resources that may assist you and your English

conversation partner to practise English together.

Name URL Information

ESL Conversation Questions

https://www.eslconversationquestions.com/english-

conversation-questions/topics/

Hundreds of questions

about different topics that

can be used to start a

conversation

incorporating diverse

vocabulary.

Teaching English, British Council

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ Lesson plans and

resources for teaching

English to adults. You

can also sign up for a

free account and

subscribe to their weekly

newsletter for ideas on

teaching English.

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Adult Migrant English Program

Resources

https://www.education.gov.au/adult-migrant-english-

program-0

Online resources for

beginner, post-beginner

and intermediate English

language learners and

their tutors. The AMEP

worksheets in your

resource pack have been

downloaded from the

post-Beginner and

Intermediate sections

here.

BBC Learning English

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/ Videos, listening and

viewing materials for

Beginner to Advanced

English language

learners.

Many Things

http://www.manythings.org/ Quizzes, puzzles, word

games and pronunciation

guides for all levels of

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English language

learners.

Easy World of English

http://easyworldofenglish.com/ Listening, reading,

grammar and

pronunciation exercises

for all levels of English

language learners.

One Stop English

http://www.onestopenglish.com/ Lesson plans and online

resources for English

language-learning at all

levels.

English Club

https://www.englishclub.com/ Free online and printable

resources for English

language-learning at all

levels.

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