“Can you speak Spanish?” and “Can you cook English food?” They can then move onto the more amusing variation where they should try to get “No, I can’t” answers with questions like “Can you fly?” and “Can you lift all of us?” The same games can easily be played in pairs and small groups.ģ. Make me say “Yes, I can”/Make me say “No, I can’t” Students must ask the teacher questions to which his or her real answer is “Yes, I can”, e.g. You can also play the same game with students choosing which objects to take at the beginning of the game, making sentences like “We can use the rope and hula hoop to swing across from a tall tree”.Ģ. Students explain how they can use one of their abilities to get past that thing, or they have to stay on their previous square.
Those characters compete to work their way around a board game with squares like “There is a wall of fire in front of you” and “There is a huge magnet under the floor”.
Can/can’t board game Students are given characters and choose between six and ten abilities for them.