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SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS

Hand out a sheet of paper to each student/pair/small team. Ask themto write down one question they’d like to ask their groupmates. Getthem to pass on the questions until everyone gets their initial question back. Have students present a summary of the answers given withthe ‘most popular’ answer.

One thing I tried this summerOne person I met this summerOne thing I learned this summerThe person I spent the most time with this summerThe best/worst meal I ate this summerSomething I bought this summerSomething I made this summerThe best word to describe this summer

HUMAN BINGO

MAD LIBS

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“Candy confessions” is another option for the Q&A session. Haveeach student choose a candy from a variety ofcandies/chocolates. Once they have chosen their favorite, put upthe chart with questions they should answer.

Get students to come up with 8 (3x3 grid) or 15 questions.(4x4 grid) about their summer. Students rotate theirgrids, and answer the second question, and so on, untilall the grids have been filled in with answers. Studentsmingle as a whole class and ask each other questions(decide on the number of questions they may ask – e.g.‘one question per person only’) and cross out the squarein the grid if the answer is the same.

See more in HUMAN BINGO.

CANDY CONFESSIONS

Prompt students for words to write their own summerpoems. See the example below.

I love summer! Summer is (hot).It's (sun) and (shade).It's (water) to wade.It's (frogs and bugs).It's (grass) for rugs.It's (eating) outside.It's a tree-swing (ride).It's (tomatoes and corn).It's (dew) in the morn.It's (dogs and boys)And lots of (noise).It's a (hot) (sunny) sky.It's summer. That's why.....I love summer.

by Frank Asch

See more in MAD LIBS.

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ANYTHING IN COMMON?

Get your students to approach other students in the class (or, if youteach a large class, split your students into small teams) andfind something in common - one thing they did or did not do thissummer. Have students use other verbs than the verb “do” in theirquestions (e.g. play, eat, go, find). Once one common thing with onestudent is found, they cannot use it with other students.

PICS, PICS!

Get students to choose and show a pic/collage of pics they took this summer (10 seconds per image). Stopand ask each person/group to remember as many ofthe different items that came up as possible in a 30second period.

Show the pic/pics again and have them guess whereand when they were taken.

GUESS WHAT I DID THIS SUMMER

MAKE A VIDEO

Ask students to tell something that did or didn’t happenthis summer. The class has to guess which story is madeup.

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Instead of a usual what-did-you-do-this-summer Q&A session,give some information about your summer in the mind mapshowing some facts about you. Ask learners to make guesses whatthese numbers/words stand for.

Have students draw their own mind maps and guess what theirpartners did this summer.

Get students to make a Google search story video abouttheir summer and get other students to reconstruct thestory. See more in TELL ME A STORY, GOOGLE.

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE

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