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    Section 3: Secrets & Lies

    Section 3: Secrets & Lies


    Truth or Lie Truth or Lie Game board
    Time 20–40 minutes
    Preparation
    Photocopy the Rules of the game, the Game board and the
    Interaction Groups of 3–5 learners Truth or Lie cards (one copy of each per group). Cut up the
    Level B1 (Intermediate) to C1 (Advanced)
    cards as indicated. Players will need one counter each (e.g. coins). FINISH
    Notes
    Depending on your learners and how much time you have,
    Language areas practised you can let them vary how they play. Some groups will
    naturally start asking questions to the player who is speaking,
    Sub-skills and Functions others will choose not to. Make sure each player moves the shoes you are wearing now
    ●● making short, unprepared speaking turns forward one square at the start of their turn so that they
    are talking about a new topic. Learners often make use of
    ●● inventing information quickly reported speech when analysing each other’s summaries, e.g. the last text message you sent
    ●● analysing a spoken text critically ‘He said that he had been to Italy, but…’.
    Variations your favourite website
    Grammar and Lexis ●● Higher Levels – Players are allowed to ask three
    ●● past simple questions to the speaker after the initial answer, or the
    ●● reported (indirect) speech
    speaker has to speak for one minute before they decide a picture on your wall at home
    whether it’s the truth or a lie.

    ✂ a habit that you have recently given up

    Truth or Lie Rules of the game the last book you read

    Preparation she moves forward, takes another Truth or Lie card and talks the most enjoyable thing you did last year
    Play in groups of 3-5. Each group needs a set of Truth or Lie about the topic on the new square. Again the other players
    cards and all players need a counter (e.g. coins). Shuffle the must guess ‘truth’ or ‘lie’. Player B goes next by moving
    cards and place them face down in a pile on the Game board. forward one square. the first time you went on holiday without your parents

    How to play How to win


    Player A moves forward one square and picks up a Truth or The first player to reach Finish is the winner! the first person you fell in love with
    Lie card, keeping it secret from the other players. She must If…
    then talk about the topic on the square she landed on. If her
    card says: ‘Truth’, she must tell the truth. If the card says:
    ●● If the others can’t agree whether you are telling the truth the first pop group / singer that you really got into
    or lying, the person on your right should decide.
    ‘Lie’, she must lie about the topic. When she has finished, the
    other players must discuss and agree on whether she was ●● If you deceive your classmates three times in a single
    telling the truth or lying. Then she reveals her card before turn, your turn ends and the next player takes her turn. your favourite subject at school
    putting it at the bottom of the pile of cards. If the others Thus, you can move forward a maximum of three squares
    guessed correctly, her turn finishes. If they guessed wrongly, in a turn.
    family holidays when you were a child
    ✂
    your favourite childhood game
    Truth or Lie Cards
    your first memory

    all players start here


    truth lie truth lie
    Don’t forget to put
    used cards to the PUT THE
    bottom of the pile
    TRUTH OR LIE
    truth lie truth lie CARDS HERE

    60 SPEAKING GAMES by Jason Anderson © Delta Publishing 2014 © Delta Publishing 2014 SPEAKING GAMES by Jason Anderson 61

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