Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Age: any.
Level: elementary.
Concerns: you are not, I am not, descriptive adjectives, prepositions of place.
Say as many false sentences about yourself as possible so that students will negate.
For example: teacher: I am a man., students: No, you are not a man. You are a woman. I am at home. No, you are not at home, you are at lesson, etc.
You can also use this activity for other grammar points and involve students in “lying” about themselves. While starting the activity with children they sing in recitative: Liar, liar pants on fire.
Additional vocabulary
bossy | ugly | fat | naughty | nosy | boastful | telltale |
boring | foolish | greedy | lazy | moody | nasty | rude |
silly | selfish | stubborn | stupid | unkind | untidy | cowardly |