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Inside Out Upper Intermediate Pictionary

 Choose one of the boxes below and try to sketch it until your partner guesses which one it is, without speaking. You can’t write words, but you can write numbers if you need to

 

hand-held camera

 

circulation

 

mainstream

 

newsstand

 

(supermarket) checkout

 

straw hat

 

washing powder

 

strip off

 

laundrette

 

massive

 

haunting

 

majority

 

heart-throb

 

queue

 

apprehensive

 

dizzy

 

bunk bed

 

swell up/ swollen

 

stitches

 

latrine

 

skeleton

 

mind-blowing

 

over the moon

 

lifejacket

 

low marks

 

(learn) by heart

 

nun

 

moustache

 

pinch

 

thigh

 

ceiling fan

 

faint

 

snail mail

 

put your foot in it

 

a shoulder to cry on

 

bouquet

 

couch potato

 

anchor

 

semi-detached house

 

terraced house

 

bungalow

 

lungs

 

waterfall

 

unfold

 

penthouse

 

detached house

 

sunny side up

 

flood

 

tearful

 

fizzy drink

 

harbour

 

tram

 

brainwash

 

cuddle

 

trainers

 

pocket money

 

hypnosis

 

false teeth

 

bubbly

 

a toast

 

hitchhike

 

suck your thumb

 

overdraft

 

three quarters of a million pounds

 

splash

 

a pile

 

ashtray

 

bucket

Play the same game, but without your partner being able to see the list of words.

 

What expressions can you use to show your certainty and uncertainty about what the pictures represent?

Mark the expressions below with S (sure), U (uncertain), ISN’T (sure it isn’t), or DK (really don’t know)

There’s a slight chance that it is…

It could well be…

I’m almost certain that it is…

It could be…, but it could just as well be…

I have no doubt that it is…/ It is, without a (slither of a) doubt,…

There’s a fifty-fifty chance that it is…

It (absolutely) must be….

It may be…

It is possibly…

(This is just a guess but/ There are many possibilities, but) it could be…

It might be…

There’s a (slight) chance that it could be…

If I had to guess, I’d say that it was…

This is just a guess, but it could be…

There’s no doubt about it, it’s…

At a stretch, it could be…

Don’t quote me on this, but it could be…

I’d rule out…

It’s a toss up between … and …

I really have no idea what it could be/ I’m stumped/ I don’t have a clue what that could be/ Beats me!/ My mind is blank/ I’m drawing a blank/ Doesn’t bring anything to mind, I’m afraid/ That means nothing to me/ I haven’t got the faintest/ I haven’t got the foggiest (notion)/ This one is beyond me

Look back at the pictures you all drew. Using the expressions above, talk about what other things the pictures could represent.

Draw things in the classroom one line at a time and see if your partners can make possible sentences about it.

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PDF version for easy printing: InsideOutUpperInt0Pictionary

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