Frozen professions

incl. materials

oral

15 min.

Objectives

The learner can use vocabulary about professions.

Materials

• Buzzer
• Cards naming or depicting a profession

Instructions

• Sit in a circle.
• Put the buzzer in the middle.
• Depict a profession, without moving, as a frozen statue.
• The first to guess the occupation, gets the next turn.
• If the learners cannot guess the occupation, you are allowed to mime it.
• Finish by repeating all the occupations.
• Let the learners comment on how the occupations were frozen.

Variant

• A learner begins by freezing a profession. When the profession is guessed, another learner joins in, changing the situation.
  For example: The first learner portrays someone who works at the computer in the office. The next learner stands behind the ’employee’, playing a hairdresser. The employee plays now a client of the hairdresser. When this is guessed, the first learner goes back to the circle and a third learner joins in.
• Do a follow-up interview: ‘What other professions do we know?’
• Ask the learners to put a spotlight on the jobs they could or would like to exercise, or did in the past.

Tips for the instructor

• Make sure everyone gets a turn.
• Write the professions on the blackboard.