Mad Libs

If you're working with intermediate or advanced students, you can play Mad Libs with them. I used to do these when I was younger and then revisited them in senior year Advanced Grammar at Union. Who knew, right? What you can do is Google "Mad Libs" and sift through the sites to find ones you want. This has been really entertaining for the students we've worked with and gives them a chance to practice their parts of speech!

Scenarios

An activity that we've used a couple of times now is one that we just call 'scenarios.' We've used two, but I'm sure you could use others, as well.

Scenario #1:
If you and your teammates were stranded on an island but could have 5 (real, not magical) items, what five items would you choose?

Scenario #2:
If you and your teammates were moving to a new planet (a planet that you know NOTHING about), and you could take 10 items with you to keep you alive, what would those items be?

Explain that each team should agree on the choices and that they should have reasons for choosing those items.