“Sole Mates” from “The Grammar Activity Book”
Tie words that go together (such as collocations) to different students’ shoelaces. They then walk around putting their feet next to each other to try to match them up. If they make an incorrect pair, they have to take off their shoes and put them in the “lost soles” pile until (at that point I stopped reading…) Also useable (?) for dependant prepositions, verb patterns etc.
This was by far the nuttiest idea in the book, but certainly not the only one that made me go “What??” On the positive side, there are few ideas in the book that you would have seen anywhere else. On the negative side, there are at times very good reasons why no one had written those ideas down…
TEFLtastic 
Okay, I’m just playing a guessing game here. Don’t know the book. Is the author by any chance Mario Rinvolucri?
Hope you’re not a fan of his by the way!
Lucy
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Just making a wild guess here- was this book by any chance written by Mario Rinvolucri?
By the way, I commented on this post on my blog.
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Nope, one Bob Obee, but I also feel the influence of Mario. It now says “for young learners” on the cover, so we are obviously not the first to spit out our tea while reading that as an idea for adults.
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