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What is your favorite animal? What is your favorite city in the ___________? What is your favorite color? What is your favorite country? And why? What is your favorite day of the week? Why? What is your favorite drink in the summer? What is your favorite food?

o What is your favorite kind of food? What is your favorite holiday? Why? What is your favorite kind of book? What is your favorite kind of ethnic food? What is your favorite kind of movie? What is your favorite kind of music? What is your favorite magazine? What is your favorite memory of childhood? What is your favorite movie? What is your favorite radio station? What is your favorite season? Why? What is your favorite sport? What is your favorite time of day? What is your favorite TV program? What is your favorite vegetable? Why

o fruit, meat, salad dressing, etc.)

What’s your favourite ______________________?

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What's your favorite smell? What's your favorite word in English? Why do you like it? Who is your favorite actor? Who is your favorite actress? Who is your favorite athlete?

o Who is your favorite baseball player? o Who is your favorite soccer player?

Who is your favorite character from literature? Who is your favorite musician? Who is your favorite singer? Who is your favorite super-hero? Explain why. What is your best friend's name? What is your favorite website? What's your favorite app? What's your favorite breakfast food? Who was your favorite teacher? Why?

o ....in high school? o ...in junior high school? o ...in elementary school?

What was your favorite subject in school? o ....in high school? o ...in junior high school? o ...in elementary school?

What’s your favourite __________________?

Favorites Find Someone Who

DESCRIPTION

Students use a checklist as they walk around the room trying to find a person who

has a certain characteristic. When students find “someone who drives a truck” or

“someone who was born at home,” they write that person’s name on their checklist

of paper and move on to the next person with the hope that that person meets one

of the other characteristics on the master list. The goal is to meet and talk to as

many people as possible within the time limit in order to put one name by each of the

characteristics.

NEEDED

1. A piece of paper listing 15 to 20 characteristics.

2. A copy of the paper for each student.

PREPARATION STEPS

1. Prepare 15 to 20 characteristics using vocabulary that your students are familiar

with. Since this is a fluency activity, the purpose can be to review or recycle

vocabulary and perhaps even learn one or two new words, but the main purpose

of this activity is to get students talking for a purpose and, thus, limit the difficulty

of the language used. As with all fluency activities, aim for a level below your

students’ actual proficiency level.

2. Try to vary the questions so that it will be easy to find a person for some

characteristics but not so easy for others. Easy questions that most people can

answer yes to include “find someone who has more than one brother,” “find

someone who watches TV at night,” or “find someone who likes to eat fish.” It is

usually harder to find the one or two people who can answer yes to “find someone

who is an only child,” “find someone who was born in December,” or “find someone

who usually reads the newspaper every morning.” Mix up the easy and difficult

characteristics on your sheet.

IN CLASS

1. Announce that the class is going to do a brief interview activity in which each

student will ask people a question to find out if they do a certain activity. The goal

is to ask everyone in class until students find someone who does that activity or

has that characteristic.

2. On the board, write two examples of characteristics from your sheet. Tell students

not to give the answer right now. Ask them to think how they would answer if

someone asked them right now, “Excuse me. Do you read the newspaper every

morning?” What would their answer options be? (Yes, I do OR No, I don’t.)

3. Hold up a copy of the checklist of characteristics. When students find someone

who says yes to one of their questions, they should write that person’s name on

their checklist sheet and go on to the next question with another person.

4. Important: A student can write a person’s name only once. Thus, if Maria reads

the paper every day and she is an only child, no student can write Maria’s name

twice on the checklist.

5. Pass out the papers. Ask everyone to stand up. Begin the activity. You, as the

teacher, should participate as well.

CAVEATS AND FURTHER SUGGESTIONS

1. This is a great icebreaker for the beginning of the course. It’s also a good way for

you to learn your students’ names and something personal about each of them.

2. You might decide to give a prize to the student who completes the activity first

or within the time limit. There is a caveat to offering a prize. When the activity is

timed, sometimes students get so focused on winning the prize that they just start

writing in people’s names.

3. As a follow up, when everyone is seated again, ask students to introduce someone

and say something about that person. For example, Maria could say, “Everyone,

I’d like to introduce Joseph to you. [Joseph raises his hand so everyone knows who

he is.] I found out today that Joseph has two dogs.”

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Find Someone whose favorite ...... is / are ..............(s)

1. ____________________ restaurant / Taco Bell

2. ____________________ sport / basketball

3. ____________________ foreign language / French

4. ____________________ time of year / fall

5. ____________________ time of day / morning

6. ____________________ type of chips / Pringles

7. ____________________ exercise / running

8. ____________________ kind of movie / horror

9. ____________________ color / green

10. ___________________

11. ___________________

12. ___________________

13. ___________________

14. ___________________

15. ___________________

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18. ___________________

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20. ___________________

brand of shoes / Adidas

singer / Beyonce

month / August

school subject / math

T.V. show / Big Bang Theory

hobby / playing video games

pizza / Hawaiian (ham and pineapple)

Internet browser / Firefox

soft drink / Sprite

breed of dog / poodle

person in the world / mother

Is your favorite ......... ..........? / Are your favorite ........s .........?

Name __________________________

My Favorite Things

Draw a picture of your favorite thing and write a sentence or two explaining your choice.

My favorite toy. _______________________________________

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My favorite sport. _______________________________________

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My favorite animal. _______________________________________

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Name __________________________

My Favorite Things

Draw a picture of your favorite thing and write a sentence or two explaining your choice.

My favorite breakfast food. _______________________________________

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My favorite dessert. _______________________________________

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My favorite fruit. _______________________________________

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Name __________________________

My Favorite Things

Draw a picture of your favorite thing and write a sentence or two explaining your choice.

My favorite book. _______________________________________

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My favorite character. _______________________________________

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My favorite author. _______________________________________

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Name __________________________

My Favorite Things

Draw a picture of your favorite thing and write a sentence or two explaining your choice.

My favorite thing to do with friends. _______________________________________

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My favorite thing to do with adults. _______________________________________

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My favorite thing to do at school. _______________________________________

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Name__________________________

My Favorite Animal

My favorite animal is __________________ .

Its body is covered with ________________ .

It lives in ________________ .

Its favorite thing to eat is ________________ .

Draw a picture of your animal in the box.

Draw a shelter for your animal in the box.

Draw Food and Water for your animal in the box.