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Deam Big Dreams!

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This activity is useful for revising vocabulary. You need
a classroom where students can stand in two lines in the
centre of the room, facing the board.
● Divide the class into two teams. Each team stands
in a line facing the board. Divide the board into two
columns with the headings Team A and Team B.
● Give the first student in each team a board pen.
● Give students a topic (for example types of film, types
of TV programme, etc.) and a time limit (for example,
three minutes).
● Say Go. The first student in each team runs to the
board, writes a word associated with the topic in his/
her team’s column, runs back and gives the pen to the
second student, who does the same and so on. Students
can help other members of their team.
● When the time is up, students sit down. Check answers
with the whole class. Teams get one point for each
answer, one point for each word/phrase that is spelled
correctly and one point for each answer not in the
other team’s list.
● The team with the most points wins.

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Three engineers and three accountants were traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three accountants each bought tickets and watched as the three engineers bought only one ticket.
"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asked an accountant.
"Watch and you'll see", answered an engineer.
They all boarded the train. The accountants took their respective seats, but the three engineers all crammed into a rest room and closed the door behind them. Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around collecting tickets. He knocked on the restroom door and said, "Ticket, please".
The door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand.
The conductor took it and moved on.
The accountants saw this and agreed it was a quite clever idea. So, after the conference, the accountants decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all that). When they got to the station, they bought a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the engineers didn't buy a ticket at all.
"How are you going to ride without a ticket"? said one perplexed accountant.
"Watch and you'll see", answered an engineer.
When they boarded the train, the three accountants crammed into a restroom and the three engineers crammed into another one nearby. The train departed. Shortly afterward, one of the engineers left his restroom and walked over to the restroom where the accountants were hiding. He knocked on the door and said, "Ticket, please."

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A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food might it contain?

He was aghast to discover that it was a mousetrap!

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning, "There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house."

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell you this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me; I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mouse trap in the house."

"I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse," sympathized the pig, "but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; be assured that you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse, a mouse trap; am I in grave danger, Duh?"

So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected to face the farmer's mousetrap alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.

In the darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital.

She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

His wife's sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.

And the mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

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This activity involves all four skills (reading, writing,
speaking and listening) and is a good way to inject some
energy into a class.
● Before the lesson, choose a short text. This text can be
used to introduce a topic in a lesson, provide a context
for new language, review a language area already
covered or simply provide extra reading practice.
● Photocopy one copy of the text for each student.
● In class, divide students into pairs, one reporter and one
secretary. Secretaries sit near the back of the class with
pen and paper.
● Put one copy of the text on the board. With larger
classes, put other copies on the wall at the front of the
class.
● When you say Go, the reporters go to the board,
remember as much as they can of the text, then run
back to their secretaries, who must write down the
exact words they hear. When a reporter has told his/her
secretary all he/she can remember, he/she goes back to
the board and repeats the process.
● In the middle of the activity, clap your hands and tell
students to change roles.
● The first pair to complete the text wins. Continue the
activity until most or all of the students have finished.
● Give a copy of the text to each student. Students then
check their version of the text against the original.

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An English woman wanting to spend a holiday in a Swiss town asked the local school master to recommend a suitable room. He showed her several but when she returned home she recalled that at no time had she seen a lavatory. So she wrote asking the teacher if there were any “WCs”. He was puzzled by the term and after chatting with his chum, the priest, decided the letters stood for Wayside Chapel.

The teacher then, according to Associated Engineering’s house magazine, replied to the woman: “I take great pleasure in informing you that a WC is situated nine meters from the house in the centre of a beautiful grove of pine trees surrounded by lovely grounds. It capable of holding 22 people and it is open on Sunday and Thursday only. As there are a great number of people expected during the summer months, I would suggest that you come early, although there is usually plenty of standing room. This is an unfortunate situation, particularly if you are in the habit of going regularly.

“You will, no doubt, be glad to hear that a good number of people bring their lunch and make a day of it. Others who can afford to go by car arrive just in time. I would especially advise your ladyship to go on Thursday, when there is organ accompaniment. The acoustics are excellent and even the most delicate sound can be heard everywhere.

“It may interest you to know that my daughter was married in the WC and it was there that she met her husband. I can remember the rush there was for seats. There were two people to a seat usually occupied by one, and it was wonderful to see the expression on their faces.

“The newest attraction is a bell donated by a wealthy resident of the district. It rings every time a person enters. A bazaar is to be held to provide more seats for all, since the people believe that it is a long-felt need.

“My wife is rather delicate, and she could not attend regularly. It is almost a year since she went last.  Naturally it pains her very much not to go more often.

“I should be glad to reserve a seat for you if you wish, where you be seen by all.

“For the children there is a special time and place, so that they will not disturb the elders.”