Lessons & Classroom Games for Teachers
ESL Game - Detective
By:kr
Title: Detective
Type: Game
Target: Possessives (Is the your __?)
Materials: Student’s personal objects
Procedure: Students take turns being "it" and go out of the classroom and wait
for a while. Choose a student's item and put it on the table. All the students in
the classroom call out for "it" to come back in the classroom. "It" tries to find
the owner of the item on the table. Students say HOT if ‘it’ is close to the person
and COLD if they are far away. When 'it" designates someone as the owner,
students ask him/her "Is this your pencil?" The student designated answers,
"Yes, it is/ No, it isn't” Then the next it goes outside and waits to be the
detective.
Comments: Perhaps could be altered to focus on another theme.