Print out and read out. This is a simple contest to get students to do things quickly.

Contest between a student from each half of the class, the first to give an answer straight away wins. 1 Name one thing that will make you angry very quickly. 6 What is the first thing you think of when you see the colour red? 2 What is something that will quickly brighten your day? 7 Before your mother married your father, what was her family name? 3 What type of clothing you like to wear around the house? 8 Name one actor or actress that looks like you? 4 What do you like to do on a rainy day? 9 What is the best way to fall asleep? 5 What do you like to do when you're feeling blue? 10 How do you eat an entire elephant?

Role-play contest, a pair from each half has to present a short role-play and the first pair to start wins. 1 Two strangers are walking down the street they see each other and realize that they use to go to the same high school together. 2 A mother and father have just received a letter from their son saying that he is going to get married. 3 A person is driving his/her car and all of a sudden he/she hits another person. 4 Two people are all alone on a boat in the middle of an ocean and there is no more food. 5 A boyfriend wants to leave his girlfriend but she doesn't want him to leave.

Contest between a student from each half of the class, the first to make a sentence from these two words win. 1 Use "briefcase" and "alarm clock" in a sentence together. 2 Use "banana" and "bank robber" in a sentence together. 3 Use "book" and "internet" in a sentence together. 4 Use "love" and "hate" in a sentence together. 5 Use "light" and "tunnel" in a sentence together.