Find someone who...

1. Make a set of cards or slips of paper, each of which has a task on it beginning: 'Find someone who', plus the present perfect. For example: Find someone who has been to Disneyland. Find someone who has had a car accident. There should be about ten different tasks, each one duplicated three or four times. Or ask the class to work them out individually.
2. Describe a task similar to those on the cards: Find someone who has ridden an elephant and ask round the class: Have you ever ridden... ? until you find someone who has, or until it is apparent that nobody has. Write up on the board: Karen has ridden an elephant. or: No one in the class has ever ridden an elephant.
3. Then tell them to take a card each, and try to find someone in the class who has done the action indicated on it, by going round asking each other questions beginning 'Have you ever...?' They should then note down the result in a full sentence, like the one you wrote on the board, and take a new card. How many answers can they find out and write down? This is a competition, so they are not to give away the answers to each other as they find them out! Participants get one point for each acceptable answer. Anyone who writes for any item that nobody has ever done it, when in fact there is somebody in the class who has, loses a point.