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Activity type: : this is a miming game
Level: Elementary and above
Teacher's notes:
- Print out the list of sentences below and cut them into strips. In class, explain to the students that they have to imagine they are in a hotel at the receptionist’s desk. Unfortunately the hotel receptionist does not understand them when they speak and so they have to mime to him/her.
- Hand out a strip of paper to each person and tell them that they are going to try to mime what is on the piece of paper to the whole class who are going to imagine that they are all receptionists. They are going to guess what is being mimed. Note that they can speak but the student who is miming cannot; he or she can only act/gesture/mime.
- Note that all of the sentences on the strips are problems related to staying in a hotel.
- Everyone in the class will have a turn at both guessing and miming. When they have done this, ask them to turn over their strips of paper and to write their own ‘problem.’
- Collect in the students’ problems and redistribute them to the class.
- Repeat the miming part of the lesson; make sure that the student whose problem is being mimed should not try to guess.
Problems:
There isn’t any hot water in my bathroom.
There are mosquitoes in my room.
The toilet is broken.
We asked for a double bed but there is only a single bed in our room.
There’s loud music coming from the disco below.
Our room is very, very cold.
The telephone doesn’t work.
The shower is broken.
The people in the next room are very noisy.
I need a wake-up call for 6 am.
I cannot turn on the television in my room.
I would like to have my clothes dry cleaned.
Can I use the fitness center?
Where is the swimming pool?
I would like to change some traveler’s checks.
My room key does not work.
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