Who reads this?

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This is a filler exercise that can also be used as a warm up activity if the lesson has anything to do with the media or advertising. The basic idea is that you give students a magazine and ask them to find out who reads it.

Lesson plan

1 Hand out a variety of magazines (they don't have to be in English)and ask students to say who reads it. i.e. who is a typical reader?

2 Elicit answers and ask them to explain the reasons for their choice.

3 Now explain to them that a good way of understanding the readership of a periodical is to look at what is advertised in it. e.g. beer and car ads often indicate a male readership.

4 Now in groups students look at their magazines again and create a reader profile based on the ads.

Consider;


Age
Gender
Income
Occupation
Interests and hobbies
Geographical location

5 Students share their answers with each other and justify their choices.

6 Alternatively, you could record some ads off the TV and ask the students to discuss what programme was on and who watches it.

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Rules

1 students form a circle and take turns to count.

2 Instead of saying "five" you say "fish" e.g. 1,2,3,4,fish,6

3 Instead of saying "seven", you say "silver".

4 For larger numbers you mix the number and the word e.g. 15 is "one fish", 45, "four fish", 27, "two silver", 57, "fish silver" etc.

5 Any mistake or hesitation means that you're out and the next person starts once again from one.

6 Continue this until there is only one person.

This is a wonderful end of lesson filler or a way of getting students' minds off exams while they're waiting to go into the exam room

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A variation of blind man's bluff for students learning English. The students have to be guided by team members in order to reach the front of the class.There are three rules;

1 - English only, otherwise your team has to stop for 10 seconds.

2 - Only the blindfolded person can move.

3- If you touch any obstacle, you have to wait for 10 seconds.

If the class is very noisy and the blindfolded person can't hear instructions from their team mates then do it as a timed challenge and the best time wins.

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