Advanced Past Continuous accusations game

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Accuse your partner of doing one thing below while you could see them (but they couldn’t see you) and see if they can think of a good reason for doing so.

Useful language for the accuser
I was passing by and…/ from the other side of the road/ from a bus I saw that you were…
Why (on earth) were you doing that (in that place/ at that time/ in that way)?
That doesn’t seem like a good enough reason to me  
  • making an “angry gesture” (= a rude gesture, e.g. middle finger or V sign)
  • cutting down a clump of trees in a park
  • rubbing at a dark patch on your boss’s jacket
  • driving with your head through the sunroof
  • parking at a taxi rank/ on a slip road
  • walking round a deserted supermarket car park
  • swerving around on an empty road
  • overtaking a police car at 100 mph
  • speeding off from a crash you caused
  • flashing every car that passed you
  • chasing a rabbit around a park
  • wearing a Puffa jacket/ a woolly jumper on the beach in August
  • scowling at someone on the bus in an intimidating manner
  • using a camping stove in a train carriage
  • grabbing an old lady’s handbag
  • knocking someone off their bike
  • glaring at someone on another table in the pub
  • installing a surveillance camera in the women’s WC
  • blindfolding your husband/ wife
  • being reprimanded by your boss
  • wearing your boss’s specs
  • hiding the zapper under a sofa cushion
  • giving a ciggie to a 12 year old child
  • sitting just 30 cms from the telly
  • picking a sarnie off the floor and brushing it off
  • putting a weird doodah/ thingummyjig into your mouth/ ear
  • buying drinks for a sozzled teenager
  • answering the call of nature by the side of a road
  • whistling a joyful ditty during a business meeting
  • stamping out a cigarette on the lift floor
  • sharing out a whole bag of 100 dollar bills
  • winking at your teacher
  • sniffing someone else’s armpit
  • peeking through a keyhole
  • looking at a block of flats through binoculars/ a telescope
  • putting something prickly/ sharp on your boss’s chair
  • stroking a colleague’s hair
  • throwing up outside the school
  • looking at some “adult entertainment”
  • talking to a streetwalker

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Related pages

Past Continuous page

Landmark Advanced page

The accusations game (TEFLtastic classics Part 15)

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