Reported speech guess the situation game

Reported speech guess the situation game

Try to remember one (real) example of a situation below, e.g. a visit to a place last year or a business meeting last week. Without saying the situation, report what you said and what other people said until someone guesses where you were/ what you were doing.

• At a conference/ At a trade show/ At a trade fair
• At a religious place (mosque, cathedral, shrine, temple, church, synagogue, etc)
• At a sporting event (football match, horse race, etc)
• At the airport (at the check-in desk, at security, at immigration, at customs, etc)
• During a performance (opera, musical, play, etc)
• During a teleconference/ During a video conference
• During a tour (of a palace, of a manor house, of a museum, of a town, etc)
• During an interview (job interview, etc)
• In a bank
• In a bar/ café/ restaurant
• In a car (e.g. a taxi)
• In a classroom
• In a hotel
• In a meeting
• In a post office
• In a shop (e.g. in a duty free shop, in a department store or in a convenience store)
• In reception
• In someone else’s house/ In someone else’s garden
• In the elevator (hall)
• In the street
• In tourist information
• In your office
• On a bus
• On a plane
• While gambling
• While taking part in a sport/ While taking part in a game
• While visiting a tourist site

When your teacher stops you, ask about language in the box you aren’t sure how to use, situations above you don’t know what to say in, etc, discussing what might be said as a class each time.  

Change groups. Play the same guessing game, but this time about situations not above.