Like and Would Like- Make me say yes speaking game
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Students try to get positive responses to preferences and desires yes/ no questions with like, including trying to work out which grammar is needed for each suggested question by meaning and guessing about your partner.
Lesson Plan Content:
Like and would like make me say yes speaking game
Choose one of the things below that you think your partner does and enjoys, or your partner doesn’t do but would enjoy. Try to ask the right “Do you like…?” or “Would you like…?” question to get a positive answer. You might need to change the grammar and/ or add words to make the thing below fit into the question that you want to make.
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Suggested likes and desires to ask about |
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be famous be fit be rich bicycle blog bungee jump cook French food cook Thai food date a colleague/ co-worker/ workmate dive do adventure sports do boxercise do computer programming do different things every day do martial arts do Skype English lessons drive eat snails flower arrangement |
garden get up very late on your days off go rock climbing go snorkelling go to different places every day go to the opera have a house full of things have a pet have a smartphone have foreign friends ice skate invest learn new words every day live in a house live with your boyfriend/ girlfriend make homemade juice make your own bread make your own jam make YouTube videos |
married parachute play the violin read English newspapers read English novels ride a motorbike roller skate save money skateboard speak German spend all your money study other languages study Spanish use English at work watch 3D movies watch Bollywood movies watch Iranian movies work with good looking guys/ women |
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Suggested responses |
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Positive responses Yes, I do. I love it. Yes, I think so. Yes, I’d love to. Yes, I would. In fact I used to do that. |
Negative responses No, I don’t. I used to, but… Actually, I never do that. (I used to though/ I would like to though). Actually, I’ve never tried. No, I don’t think so. It’s not really my kind of thing. Actually, I already do that (sometimes/ often/ all the time). |
Share two sentences about your partner, one with “like” and one with “would like”, and see if anyone else in class feels the same.
Ask about anything above you don’t understand, working together to make and answers suitable questions each time.
Continue the same game, but this time with your own ideas for things to ask about.
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