Back to the Board

Here are a few ways of playing "Back to the Board"

• 1. The basic game is that one person, sitting in the hotseat, faces the class. Here are some ways to do it:

  2. Simple focused conversation: the class can ask the person in the hotseat any question they like.

  3. Drama hotseating: the person in the hotseat has to assume a character. The class can either test it by asking questions, or ask questions to guess it.

  4. One person sits with his back to the board. The teacher writes up something that the class can see but the hotseated person can’t. Then the class has to give clues until the hotseated person works out what it is.

  5. The teacher writes a sentence on the board, "The book is on the bed" or "My father is playing with Tim" You tell the students that they are very curious and that they want to have more details about the sentence. They have to come up with as many questions as they can think of and you make up the answers as you go. For example; "What color is the book? Whose book is it? Why is it on the bed? Where is the bed? Who is Tim? Where are they playing? How old is your father?"

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