New Christmas Spot the Difference Quizzes

Over on the forum Margit was saying how she has used Spot the Difference quizzes to generate lots of conversation in both her kids & adult classes.

Margit also also asked for a few more games.

So always wanting oblige, here are two new Spot the Difference quizzes, first a really easy one to go with the Let’s make a snowman lesson, where you can say things like “His hat is green”  or “The scarf is blue etc.”:

snowmanspot

And a slightly tougher one to go with the Gingerbread House lesson (can you get them all?)

gingspot

 

I’ve made both of these freely available for anyone to download, so if you have any teacher friends who you think might find them useful, be sure to send them the link to this page!

And after all the touring, TED and special offer chaos I’ve now got a couple of light weeks before Christmas so if you have any more requests of things you’d like me to make for you, do put them up in the comments!

Be genki,

Richard

P.S.  You can even use these as a game e.g.

1. Split the kids into groups, then split each group again into 2.

2. For each group give one picture to one half, the other to the other, but so they can’t see each others!

3. Using English they figure out how many differences there are!

Ninja Tip:  For activities like this I spread the two halves of the group out a long way – even to the other side of the class.  That way everyone has to shout over each other and it is a fantastic communication exercise!   Check out the video at the end of this page to see how it works!

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3 Responses to “New Christmas Spot the Difference Quizzes”

  3. Margit

    Just a few ideas if you don’t know really how to use them.

    The important thing is, like Richard said, to not show each other the own page.

    Then for example even for the first “easy” picture you can get students into high level conversations. you can practice anything you’d like for example:

    Would you/
    Could you tell me,
    I’D like to know

    etc:

    “Could you tell me what color your snowman’s hat is?”

    Also you could add the rule that they have to answer “indirectly” so not mention the word straight:

    …what does your snowman’s hat look like?”
    >” It has the color of a flower’s leaf”
    >”The nose is a round vegetable”
    etcetc.

    I think there is no end in making it as difficult as needed.

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