• Choose a student to stand in front of the class.
• Put the handkerchief on his/her eyes.
• The student wearing the handkerchief on has to ask the question " What's your name?". Another partner has to answer "my name is..." but imitating a funny voice and saying any name.
• The student wearing the handkerchief on has to guess who is the person that answered the question. If he/she guesses, can go to his/her seat. If not, he/she stays there until he/she guesses the real identity of the funny voice.

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• The teacher first says "My name is...". and asks "What's yours?" or "What's your name?
• Then the teacher toss the ball and a student has to catch it.
• That student has to answer "My name is..." , then toss the ball to another partner and ask for his or her name and so on until students have introduce themselves.
• In fact, the activity can be done with many different questions and answers.

Idea: Beth Gleason, UNSIS 2008.

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3.-PERSONAL INFORMATION BINGO

• Bingo game.
• Provide each student with playing card.
• Shuffle cards and mention the phrases and/or questions.
• The student who first completes and shouts "Bingo" wins.

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• Draw tic tac toe charts on the whiteboard.
• Form teams (suggested 6 or 4).
• Draw a chart for each two teams.
• Write a word in each space of the chart (name, address, telephone, american, etc.)
• Two teams play on one chart. Give turns to participate.
• If a team want to write its cross or doughnut on a space, they must say a phrase, question, or sentence mentioning the word written in that space.

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• Bingo game.
• Provide each student with playing card.
• Shuffle cards and mention the professions and occupations.
• The student who first completes and shouts "Bingo" wins.

• Write a dialogue on the whiteboard and make some drillings.
• Form teams.
• Give turns.
• Each team has to read the dialogue aloud.
• Before the teams read the dialogue for the second time, erase a word or two. Be careful that anyone copied it on his/her notebook.
• The teams have to read the dialogue as if any words were erased.
• Repeat the procedure until the whole dialogue has been erased.
• The team which can say the whole dialogue, wins the competition.

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• Form teams.
• Write on the whiteboard as many words you can that can be used in questions and answers in a jumbled manner (be careful to balance the parts of the speech).
• Establish the time and turns to participate.
• Each team has to assemble a sentence, question, or phrase using the words written on the whiteboard and say it aloud.
• Words that were used must be erased.
• The team which forms more sentences, questions or phrases wins.

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• Form teams of 5 or 6 students.
• Provide them with the same amount of toy money.
• Teach your students how to bid money: We bid $400, we bid $500, etc.
• Write or say aloud a sentence.
• It is an auction, students have to bid money to buy that sentence.
• They have to try to buy only correct sentences, those ones without any grammatical mistake.
• You have to sell it at the highest price as possible.
• After selling the sentence, you have to say if it is correct or incorrect and why
• The team which buys more correct sentences wins (not the one with more money left).

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• Show a visual of a person (it works better with famous people).
• Point at the visual and say "this is Ronaldinho"
• Then "he is from Brazil"
• After that "he is Brazilian"
• Next "he is a professional soccer player"
• And then "he is 24 years old"
• Focus the pronnunciation on "he, she, this", thus students will notice genre and number.
• Repeat the same exercise with the visual of a woman.
• Sometimes is good to dictate the sentences and this way students could follow a model.
• Provide your students with visuals.
• If people on visuals are not famous, you can write their personal information on the back face.
• Your students have to introduce the person of the visual.
• When they have introduced the person of the visual, then they can introduce a partner to the class.

• Form teams.
• Give turns.
• Each team trows throw the dice and move the numbers of spaces according to the dice.
• Students have to answer the questions of the board game to move forward.
• The team which gets the "finish" space wins.

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• Provide your students with a set of tools.
• They will be interview by the group.
• It can be start with questions like:"What's your occupation/profession? What do you do? Where do you work?.
• Besides answering the interview they can show the tools and say what they are for.