Just after previously writing about sentence completion guessing games, I realised that the sentence stems were perfect for a bluffing game in which students completed the sentences with a mix of true and made up info – especially useful if students might not be able to think of too many true ways of completing the sentences.

Then just a couple of weeks ago it occurred to me that exactly the same gapped sentences could be used for the less exciting but more classroom dynamicsy activity of finding things in common. Two worksheets using all three ideas:

Present and past ability sentence completion games (guessing, things in common, and bluffing)

Past and present modals of obligation and permission sentence completion games (bluffing, guessing and things in common)

It’s not always in the instructions, but nearly all of the photocopiables below could also be used all these ways, perhaps with a little bit of adaptation:

Sentence completion for EFL exams

Personal information in IELTS Listening Part 1 sentence completion activities (in this bargain e-book)

IELTS Speaking Part One sentence completion games (in this very cheap e-book)

IELTS Speaking Part Three discuss and agree (in this very cheap e-book)

Sentence completion for grammar

Sentence completion for tenses

I wish if only unreal past sentence completion games – NEW

Past Perfect sentence completion games – NEW

Present Perfect and future tenses sentence completion games (bluff, guessing and things in common)

Simple Past sentence completion guessing game

Present Simple/ Adverbs of frequency Sentence completion guessing game

Present Perfect Sentence completion guessing game and extended version

Continuous aspect sentence completion game

Unreal past sentence completion activities (things in common, bluffing and guessing game)

Sentence completion for conditionals

Zero conditional sentence completion guessing game

First conditional sentence completion guessing game

First conditional and countable/ uncountable sentence completion activities (bluffing, guessing and things in common)

Second conditional sentence completion guessing game

Business second conditional sentence completion guessing game

Third conditional sentence completion guessing game

Conditionals review sentence completion guessing game

Colours and conditionals sentence completion guessing game

Sentence completion for verb patterns

Verbs patterns sentence completion games (guessing game, bluff and things in common)

Verb plus gerund and infinitive sentence completion games (guessing game, bluff and things in common)

Verb patterns and prepositions sentence completion guessing game

Verb patterns personalised guessing game (Pre-Int version – with version 2 there the sentence completing version)

Sentence completion for other grammar points

Sense verbs sentence completion games (bluff, guessing game and things in common) – NEW

Participle clauses personalised sentence completion games (things in common, guessing and bluffing)

Used to, be used to and get used to sentence completion games (guessing game, bluff and things in common)

Be used to and get used to sentence completion games (bluffing, things in common and guessing game)

First conditional and countable/ uncountable sentence completion activities (bluffing, guessing and things in common)

Should and should have things in common 

Reporting verbs sentence completion games (bluffing, guessing and things in common)

ed and ing adjectives sentence completion guessing game

Adjective plus preposition sentence completion guessing game and Cutting Edge version

Adverbs of manner sentence completion guessing game

Sentence completion for other language points

Useful phrases for reviews sentence completion activities (discuss and agree, guessing and bluff)

Likes and dislikes things in common sentence completion games 

Country and nationality words sentence completion games (bluffing game and two guessing games)

Free time sentence completion guessing game

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Updated 16 December 2025