Name of Group Game: Telephone Charades
*Special thanks to Chris Chu for providing the group game idea
Type:
Indoor or
Outdoor
Number:
Small Group (more than 10 people) to
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Age: Middle School – Adults
Time: 15 – 20 minutes
Summary: Funny icebreaker game, especially for larger groups. Easy to learn and play, with little preparation.
Goal: To have the player at the end of the line do best imitation of the original action.
Preparation:
– Print the list of actions below and plan what your actions will be
– You’ll be the moderator and judge
How to Play the Telephone Charades Game:
1. Split everyone into teams of five or more (can have teams of up to 10 people each). Ask each team to stand in a line.
2. Explain the game: You (the moderator) will be showing an action scene to the person at the front of the line, with no words or sounds. Everyone else will have their backs turned to you, except for the person at the front.
3. Once the person understands the action scene as best as he/she can, he or she taps the shoulder of the next person in line. The next person turns around, and the person imitates your action scene to that person, with no words or sounds. Once he or she understands and remembers the action scene, he or she taps the shoulder of the next person, and so forth. An action scene can be continually repeated until the person understands the action scene.
4. The last person in the line is eventually reached. You will judge who has the most accurate action scene to what you did originally. The team with the most accurate action scene will get one point. The team with the most points wins the game.
List of Actions:
1. Go fishing in a boat, catch a fish, and fry it
2. Walk to the refrigerator, get bread, ham, and mayo, and make a sandwich
3. Drive through a fast food restaurant, order a large burger, fries and soda, get your food and drive away.
4. Turn on a television, watch a football game, eat popcorn, and cheer for a team’s touchdown
5. Jump out of a ski lift, ski down a mountain, go into a lodge and drink hot chocolate
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Name of Group Game: Telephone Pictionary
*Special thanks to Chris Chu for providing the group game idea
*Special thanks to Antonia Kam for helping with this game
Type:
Indoor
Number:
Small Group (more than 6 people) to
Age: Middle School – Adults
Time: 20 – 30 minutes
Summary: Similar to the game of telephone, except with using pictures and phrases! See how distorted the flip books become as each person goes through it.
Goal: To interpret the pictures and phrases as accurately as possible.
Preparation:
– Making Paper Booklets: Take 8 x 11” pieces of paper (portrait). Fold and cut the pieces of paper in half horizontally, so that they will be 8 x 5.5″. Then, give each person 5 pieces of paper. Have them fold the paper in half vertically (4 x 5.5″) and make paper booklets. Staple the pieces of paper at its book spine.
– A pen for each participant
– Chairs and a table which people can sit around
How to Play the Telephone Pictionary game:
1. Ask everyone to sit in a chair around the table. Once everyone has been given a paper booklet and pen, you can explain the game. Each person is to write a short familiar phrase or sentence on the cover of the booklet, for example: “I believe I can fly” or “Rock paper scissors”. Give everyone one minute to write a phrase down. Next, tell everyone to pass their booklet to the person to their right.
2. Each person will read the phrase on the cover of their new booklet, flip the cover page, and draw a picture of their interpretation on the right side of the booklet. Give everyone one minute to draw a picture of the phrase. Then tell everyone to pass their booklet to the person to their right, with their picture open and visible.
3. Next, the person will look only at the picture that the person to their left has drawn. In their new booklet, tell them to flip the page, and draw a short phrase that interprets the picture (on the right side of the booklet). Give everyone one minute to write a phrase down.
4. Continue this pattern of drawing pictures and writing phrases until each person receives their own booklet back. Then, have each person go through their own booklets and showcase each page in front of the group.
Variation for Large Groups:
1. Split everyone up into teams of 7-10 players and ask each team to sit around a table. Give every team a booklet and a pen.
2. Announce an initial phrase for the first person to write on the cover. Then, have the first person flip the cover and draw a picture of their interpretation on the right side booklet (complete steps 2-3).
3. Once the booklet reaches the original person, you’ll be the judge on whose booklet is “the most accurate” OR “the most creative” (your choice) to the original phrase.
Initial Phrases:
– “I believe I can fly”
– “Show me the money”
– “Gone go fishing”
– “Life is like a box of chocolates”
– “I’ll be watching you.”
– “Three blind mice”
– “E.T. phone home”
– “I’m the king of the world”
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who fished for some fish in a fissure.
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pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.
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I then should have need of your needles indeed.
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After great consideration,
Came to the conclusion
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Is back in education
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The bear could not bear the boar.
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Of that boar that bored him on the moor,
And so one morn he bored the boar
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Telephone English poses a special problem for English learners because of the lack of visual clues used when speaking. Practicing telephone English in class can also seem rather artificial as exercises generally ask students to practice speaking on the phone through role-plays sitting together in small groups. Once they have learned the basic phrases used in telephoning, the main difficulty lies in communicating without visual contact.This telephone English lesson plan focuses on creating more realistic telephoning situations to encourage students to practice authentic telephoning situations.
The lesson has been planned to take place in a business setting. However, the lesson can be modified by the use of smart phones to fit any teaching situation.
Aim: Improving Telephoning Skills
Activity:Role playing using office telephone lines
Level: Intermediate to advanced
Telephone English Lesson Plan
- Review phrases used in telephoning with the telephone English match-up and quiz below.
- When students have finished, ask them to identify phrases that are not used in personal interactions. (i.e. This is Mr. Smith. Would you like to leave a message?)
- To begin practicing on the phone, ask students to pair up and then separate into different rooms. Make sure students have the right telephone numbers!
- Students should take turn initiating telephone calls as indicated in the short cues provided in the worksheet.
- Once students are comfortable with easy conversations, move on to more difficult conversations as outlined in the next activity.
- Ask each student to write out notes for a telephone conversation that they would typically have with a native speaker. Make sure students have a specific task in mind when writing out the notes. You can provide a few examples such as: Order 500 liters of olive oil, expect delivery by Friday, Use the company account for payment, Send to 2425 NE 23 St, Portland, Oregon, etc.
- Choose some notes and ask the student to leave the room and go into the next office. Now, this is when your acting skills come in handy! Take the various notes, call the other extension and ask for the person suggested by the student who wrote the notes.
- You've made it to Hollywood now! Play a variety of roles and act them out on the phone. Really put your students through the paces. You can be angry, impatient, in a hurry, etc.
- Once you have repeated this exercise, get students to call each other in their own offices to repeat the exercise. Remember it is crucial to actually use the phone, as the difficulty lies in understanding English over the phone. Make sure students get lots of practice with a variety of telephone role plays.
Finally, if can't use separate telephones lines in a business setting, use smart phones and ask students to go to separate rooms for their calls.
Remember that students will need lots of practice to improve their telephoning skills. To help create further opportunities, spend some time discussing specific telephoning tasks they can expect at work.
Telephone English Exercises
Match Up
Match the first half of the sentence to the second half to complete these common expressions used on the telephone.
I'll put you This is Would you like to Peter Can I ask Can you hold I'm afraid Ms. Smith I'm sorry, | who is calling? the line? leave a message? through. calling. isn't available at the moment. Alice Anderson. the line is busy. |
Telephone Cues
Use the cues to make telephone calls with a partner.
- A telephones B in order to speak to the manager. Unfortunately, the manager is out. Leave a message.
- B telephones A and would like to speak to a colleague, Ms. Anderson. A asks B to wait and puts B through to Ms. Anderson.
- A telephones B and wants some basic information about the company. B describes what the company does and sells.
- B telephones A to complain about a broken product. A apologizes and redirects B to the appropriate customer service department.
- A telephones B to make an appointment with the personnel department. B suggests a time to speak to Mr. Taylor who works in the department. A agrees to come in at the suggested time.
- B telephones A asking for information about store opening hours. A provides the appropriate information.
Notes for a Call
It's a good idea to write out short notes before your make a telephone call. This will help you keep on track during your conversation.
- Write out some notes for a telephone call asking for specific information needed for your current job.
- Ask for specific details about a product, a meeting, or another event that you'll attend.
- Make a copy of your notes for a class mate and practice the conversation using the telephone.