Never have I ever... with One Direction

I would have never though that it would be such a fun activity... 10 minutes after the class had finished, my students still wanted one more round... :D

Time: 12 mins

Level: B1+ on

Materials: the video

Aims: developing SS' listening skills, energizing the students, drilling present perfect sentences and inversion (you can adopt this activity to practice other grammatical forms as well), creating a nice group atmosphere, getting to know your students a bit more

1. Show this video to your students:

2. You can ask your students whether they remember the statements Ellen gave to the band.

(3. You can ask your SS whether they have ever sent a text to the wrong person or whether they have ever used someone else's toothbrush without them knowing... etc. - Well, it depends on your relationship with them

OR you can ask them to discuss it in pair what they have already done from the above mentioned activities)

4. You'll have to reorganize the classroom at this stage: You'll play a version of "musical chairs".

Form a circle with the chairs and have as many chairs as your students (if you want to play with them) or one less if you don't want to be part of the activity.

Everyone sits down and one person (e.g. You, the teacher) stands in the center. The person in the center has to say a sentence with the structure Never have I ever... e.g. Never have I ever been to France. If it's true for your students, they stay seated, if it's false, so their answer is "Oh, I have", they'll have to stand up and find another seat. They can't sit back to their original place. The person who is left without a chair will have to say the next sentence. If nobody stands up, the person in the center will have to say a new sentence. If only one person stands up, they will have to switch places automatically.

The person standing in the middle can lie, they ones in the circle cannot.

I learnt the second part of this activity at a Pestalozzi Friday session in Budapest and it works very well with this video. I played it with two groups of students, aged 18-25, and they enjoyed it tremendously.