AN ICE-BREAKER ACTIVITYCALL MY BLUFF

• The teacher says he is going to tell his students ten sentences about his life.

• Three of the sentences are false and the students’ task is to spot the lies.

• When a lie is detected, the teacher says why it is a lie, providing more listening practice.

AN ICE-BREAKER ACTIVITYCALL MY BLUFF

• When you have finished your talk about your own biography, ask your students to do the same.

• Once they have finished writing their sentences, pair them off.

• Students call out their sentences to their partner, who has “to call his bluff”

• Pair them off a couple of times.

AN ICE-BREAKER ACTIVITYCALL MY BLUFF

• As the groups are usually very big (twenty-five students or more) then ask them to make their presentation in Power Point format.

• That way, the rest of the group can read the texts of everyone in the class and take part in a whole-group activity.

AN ICE-BREAKER ACTIVITYCALL MY BLUFF

Examples of students’ texts• When I was a child I won the Spanish Swimming

Championship.• I have lived in lots of different places: Albacete,

Granada, Tenerife, Valencia , Madrid….• I’ve got a sister who plays the viola.• I spend a lot of money on clothes every month.• I’d like to live in a small village in the future.

AN ICE-BREAKER ACTIVITYCALL MY BLUFF

Examples of students’ texts• I studied Biology but I didn’t finish my studies.• I am married to a woman I met at this school.• I have a black dog whose name is Blanca.• I am a driving school teacher.• I was born in Murcia.