Twenty questions

This is a more advanced guessing game. Students have to guess the identity of a mystery person, practicing question formation, nationalities, jobs and adjectives.

• Play the game in groups or a class. Write the names of famous people on cards. One student draws a card and assumes that person's identity. The others have up to 20 questions to find out who it is.
• The student with the card can only answer Yes, (I am) / No, (I'm not) or I don't know. If they don´t know the question doesn't count.
• Elicit and splash on the board examples of the kind of questions students have to ask.
• The student who guesses correctly draws the next famous name, an so on.

This is also good for guessing a job, e.g. Do you work indoors/with your hands? Do you have to drive/wear a uniform? Again, practice some of the questions first.