extended speaking/ idioms/ slang
Landmark Advanced Unit 4
Choose one of the situations below and tell a personal anecdote about it, using your imagination if you can’t think of anything true. After you finish, your partner will guess whether your story is true or made up, then take turns doing the same. Your teacher will tell you how to choose (your own choice from the worksheet, dealing out the cards and choosing one in your hand, etc).
Useful language for playing the game
- I’ve got an interesting story about…
- Something happened to me (the other day) connected to…
- I guess that it’s (pure) imagination
- I’m not sure, but I’d say that it’s true
- That seems believable
- You’ve got a real poker face!/ You’re a great liar/ You had me (totally) fooled!
- I thought so.
- I knew that you were lying/ making it up because…
When your teacher stops you, look at all of the vocabulary and ask about any you are not sure about, working together to tell real connected anecdotes or guessing if your teacher’s anecdotes are true each time.
Work together to put as much of that vocabulary as you can into one imaginary anecdote.
Vocabulary to choose and tell anecdotes about
| An accident on my bike or a near miss | Déjà vu | A rude gesture |
| A (virtually) deserted place | A sixth sense | A car accident or near miss |
| An unnecessary worry | Road rage | The last train/ The second to last train |
| Abuse/ Insults | Intuition | Beat up/ Knock someone’s head off |
| Motorway | Putting something off | Swerve |
| A mental list | Asking for a ciggie/ a fag | An onerous task |
| A call of nature/ Taking a leak | Headhunting | Being kicked out |
| Between jobs | Economical with the truth | A drink problem |
| Hard-up | A hanky/ hankie | A sarnie |
| Specs | A woolly hat | The zapper |
| Feeling peckish | Feeling parched | Feeling gutted |
| Feeling shattered | Tipsy/ Sozzled | The powder room/ The smallest room/ The WC |
| Come up for a coffee | Breaking wind/ A blow off/ A bottom burp | Fall off the back of a lorry |
| A bun in the oven | Weed/ Black/ Maria/ Grass |
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Related pages
49 EFL bluffing games/ EFL lying games (TEFLtastic Classics Part 24)
