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What's in the bag?
This is a simple speaking game for your students to practice talking about future
arrangements using going to.

You will need a bag to play this game.

Procedure

Have the students sit in a circle.

Tell the class that they have to pass a bag around from student to student. The student who
receives the bag has to look in it and invent something that could be in the bag.

The student who has just passed the bag asks the person with the bag.

“Why have you got a ... in your bag?”

This student then has to think of an appropriate reply with I'm going to.

For example:

Student 1: passes the bag to Student 2

Student 2: looks in the bag "Why have you got a monkey in your bag?"
Student 1: "I'm going to take it to the zoo."
Student 2: then he/she passes the bag to Student 3, and so on, around the class.

Emphasise that the students should try to think of something unusual or bizarre inside the
bag. This will make it harder for the other students to think of a reason for having it in their
bag.

Students are out of the game if they can’t think of an appropriate reason or they take too
long to reply. General formulas such as I’m going to sell it or I’m going to throw it away are
not allowed.

Play a trial round first to give everybody a chance to get used to the game.

Written by Jennifer Feltham for Teach-This.com ©20I3