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Aid Lib


Skills:
Level:
Class Size:
Speaking
Intermediate - Advance
3 or more players
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Materials: Timer

Objective

Aid Lib is an efl/esl activity where players take turns speaking continuously for a set period of time.

Instructions

1. Nominate a player to be the umpire of the game. The umpire begins by saying a topic which the second player has to speak about for 1 minute without repetition, hesitation or any deviation from the main topic.

You may want to specify a few general efl/esl conversation topic that everyone can relate to, or topics that the class has already studied.

2. After 1 minute, the Umpire selects another topic and the second person talks for another minute about that topic and so on. If the player repeats, hesitates or deviates from the choosen topic, he/she is out of the game.

3. The winner is the last person left in the game. He/she is choosen as the new umpire in the next game.