[clivehawkins]

Quote susan53

- you (or a student) write on the board various ambiguous keywords describing your holidays. One of yours Clive could be Mario (based on your other post this week). the group then has to ask questions until they've found out why that word was relevant to your holiday.

- each student writes three (or five sentences abut their holiday/new year's resolutions of which one is untrue. the rest of the group decide which.

For more advanced classes, ask them to predict what will happen in 2007. Again you could write keywords on the board - America, Iraq, the environment, technology, sport, TV etc. Get them to write down at least three predictions and to read them out to the group. Note them on the board, then give out an article making predictions for 2007 and get them to read it to check : are any of the predictions the same? Opposite? Completely different?

That's great. especially the keywords idea - i'll be using that most Mondays in fact as a way to find out about the weekend.

I'll try all the ideas in any case.
Thanks a lot Susan - you've just made my day a lot easier

By the way, love the photos- It looks pretty cold!