Divide the class into small teams of two to three players and appoint team secretaries. Set a limit of five to eight minutes for the team secretaries, helped by the rest of their team, to write down the actions, being mimed in the pictures. The team with the most correct sentences is the winner.
Hints: Point out the spelling rule SHAVE + ING = SHAVING before playing the game.
Answer:
1. He is playing
2. She is playing the piano
3. He is cleaning his teeth
4. He is going upstairs
5. She is combing her hair
6. She is drinking a cup of tea
7. He is driving
8. She is telephoning
Mime Games Extension
Ask one of the player to rite an action on a slip of paper and hand it to you, without any of the other players seeing it. Mime the action for the rest of the group to guess: Are you combing your hair? Are you brushing your teeth? Answer with Yes, I am or No, I'm not. (Your mime does not have to be good the more amateur the mime, the more questions will have to be asked). Give verbal hints if necessary. The player who guesses the right answer then gets the chance to mime an action for others to guess, and so on, until everyone has had a turn.
Hints:
You could practice is he/is she questions by getting two students to think of an action; one than mimes the actions while the other answers the questions. If the player cannot think of an action to mime, you could suggest washing hands, telephoning, driving a car, playing chess, lighting a fire, making an omelette, having a shower. Another variant of the game is to suggest different categories such as eating something, cooking something in the house, playing a game. Each player then has to mime, for example, eating a different kind of food for the others in guess, e.g. eating spaghetti, eating an egg, eating peas.
Grammar focus:
Present Continuous:
Are you combing your hair?
Yes, I am/No, I'm not
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