Speed+Dating


 * Speed Dating**

Explain the idea of speed dating- students have probably seen it on TV or in movies. They aren't trying to get a date here, instead they are meeting disguised celebrities and trying to figure out who s/he is.

Students are in pairs, desks lined up in rows. "B" partners all face one way, and "A" partners face the other way. "A" partners are trying to guess who "B" partners are. "B" partners each have a new identity- they are celebrities. Students have one minute to talk with the person- asking "are you " and "do you like to " in order to guess who the person is. For example, person A says, "Are you blond? Person B says "Yes, I am blond." A: Are you ugly?" B: No, I am pretty. A: Are you tall? B: I'm not tall but not short. A: Do you like to sing? etc. until they can guess who the person is, which they check by asking "are you___(name)____?" This also helps them practice adjective endings because if they ask if the person is "rubio" and it's a girl, they will answer "no."

This is how I set it up- there were 3 different sets of celebrities, and three rows of paired desks. Each student talked to 5 different celebrities, and had a sheet with 6 possibilities, so they could narrow it down. After one minute, they all rotated within their row to talk to the next "celebrity". To assign the celebrities, I had a picture of the celebrity in a folder, and used 3 different colors of folders- one for each row. The partner guessing has to keep their sheets a secret too- I made it a game, so that the person who figured out all 5 celebrities won. How you set it up could vary based on your class, but having everything so structured made it easy to be a quick paced activity, which is important in order to make it fun and challenging. Students really enjoyed having the chance to be a celebrity- especially the girls who were Mike Tyson, and the boys who were Britney Spears!

Here is the worksheet students fill out, putting the classmate's name on the line next to the celebrity that they "are." I found all of my pictures on googleimages!

Good luck! user:richa521