Who am I?

Objective & content

By the end, A2- pupils can understand and give simple clues in the present simple, with can and have got, and ask yes/no questions to guess: I've got eight legs. Are you a spider? Yes, I am! The bank is 61 projectable slides: a how-to slide, then 12 riddles about jobs and animals (a vet, a firefighter, a dentist, a penguin, a giraffe, a crocodile...). Each riddle shows four clues, one slide at a time, from the hardest to the easiest, then an answer slide with the picture.

Pedagogical guide

Use it as a five-minute warm-up that gets the whole class guessing. Because the clues get easier, everyone has a chance: fast pupils guess after the first clue, the others after the third or fourth. The rule of one guess per clue makes pupils listen to each other and think before they speak. Jobs and animals alternate, so pupils never know which kind of answer is coming. The riddles are independent: show two or three per lesson.

Suggested procedure

1. (1 min) Show the how-to slide and read the example together.
2. (3 min) Show the first clue. Pupils guess with Are you a ...?, one guess each. Show the next clue, and the next, until someone finds the answer.
3. (1 min) Show the answer slide and read all four clues again. Who guessed first?

Adaptations

• [S] Before you start, show the pictures of three or four possible answers, so pupils choose between them.
• [A] Pupils write four clues of their own for a job or an animal, from hard to easy, and the class guesses.

Materials & prerequisites

A projector or screen; the bank is a 16:9 PDF, one slide per page, with no printing needed. Assumes the names of common jobs and animals, and the present simple in the first person.