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Famous for a night

Activity type: this is a warmer in which students pretend to be famous people and imagine what those famous people did the night before.

Level: Intermediate and above

Teacher's notes:

  1. At the beginning of the lesson, ask the students to get into pairs and ask them to discuss, with each other, what they did the night before. They can do this for a few minutes, whilst they are doing this monitor and correct.
  2. When they have done this, tell the students that they are going to pretend to be famous people and to imagine what they did the night before.
  3. Hand out a famous person’s name to each student. Make sure that they know who the person is.
  4. Allow the students a few minutes to imagine what that person likes, dislikes, what kinds of things they are famous for etc.
  5. Tell them to then stand up and mingle discussing their previous evenings as though they were those people.
  6. Monitor and correct as they are doing this or note down errors and do delayed error correction at the end of the activity.

Follow-up activity: ask the students to think of people that they would really like to be because they admire them so much.

Famous people:

MADONNA
MICHAEL JACKSON
MICHAEL JORDAN
TIGER WOODS
PRESIDENT BUSH
DAVID BECKHAM
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
TOM CRUISE
NICOLE KIDMAN
CAMERON DIAZ
BEN AFFLECK
JENNIFER LOPEZ
DEMI MOORE
THE HULK
BRUCE WILLIS
PINK
P. DIDDY
Mrs. BUSH
BONO
NELSON MANDELA
ANDRE AGASSI
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