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    This document provides instructions for an ESL activity where students play a miming game to practice using the present continuous tense. The game involves students being given sentence cards and miming the action for their team to guess. It outlines setting up teams, taking turns miming sentences, and keeping score to determine a winning team.

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    This document provides instructions for an ESL activity where students play a miming game to practice using the present continuous tense. The game involves students being given sentence cards and miming the action for their team to guess. It outlines setting up teams, taking turns miming sentences, and keeping score to determine a winning team.

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    This document provides instructions for an ESL activity where students play a miming game to practice using the present continuous tense. The game involves students being given sentence cards and miming the action for their team to guess. It outlines setting up teams, taking turns miming sentences, and keeping score to determine a winning team.

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    This document provides instructions for an ESL activity where students play a miming game to practice using the present continuous tense. The game involves students being given sentence cards and miming the action for their team to guess. It outlines setting up teams, taking turns miming sentences, and keeping score to determine a winning team.

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    TEACHER'S NOTES

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES Guess what I'm doing

    Activity Type Introduction


    Miming and speaking This entertaining miming game can be used to teach or review the
    activity, group work present continuous tense.

    Procedure
    Language Focus
    Begin by asking the students to watch you and guess what you
    Present continuous
    are doing. Mime a simple activity and encourage the students to
    affirmative sentences
    call out their answers in the present continuous tense, e.g. 'You
    beginning with 'You
    are washing the dishes'.
    are...'
    When the students have guessed what you are doing, tell them
    that they are going to play a similar game in teams.
    Aim
    To guess present Divide the class into two teams.
    continuous sentences
    from mimes. Explain that the aim of the game is for the students in the teams
    to guess present continuous sentences from mimes.

    Preparation Tell the students that all the sentences are present continuous
    affirmative sentences beginning with 'You are...'
    Make one copy of
    the cards and cut as One team goes first and chooses a team member to do the first
    indicated. mime.

    The chosen student comes to the front of the class and is given a
    Level present continuous sentence card.
    Pre-intermediate
    The student asks the class 'What am I doing?' and then does the
    mime on the card.
    Time When a member on either team thinks they know what the
    25 minutes student is doing, they call out their answer by making a present
    continuous sentence, e.g. 'You are eating a pizza'.

    Team members must say the exact words on the mime card to
    win. The first student to guess the sentence wins a point for their
    team.

    Then, a student from the other team comes to the front of the
    class and so on.

    The game continues with teams taking it in turns to mime a


    sentence until all the cards have been used.

    The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

    If you think your students may be embarrassed to mime in front


    of the whole class, they can play the game in small teams.

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    PRESENT CONTINUOUS

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES Guess what I'm doing

    You are singing in the shower. You are eating spaghetti.

    You are washing clothes. You are lifting weights.

    You are flying a kite. You are waiting for the bus.

    You are carrying a heavy bag. You are playing badminton.

    You are riding on a roller coaster. You are doing your homework.

    You are giving a presentation. You are watching a comedy.

    You are looking in the mirror. You are driving a bus.

    You are writing a love letter. You are feeling drunk.

    You are running up some stairs. You are having a massage.

    You are listening to hip hop music. You are taking a test.

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