whos who and where are they

Who's Who and Where are they?
Identifying people and using place prepositions
1. Here are the names of all the students in the classroom below:
Julie, Anne, Andrew, Rick, Liz, Cathy, Tim, Zac, Betty and Sam.
Read the following clues carefully and see who in your classroom is the quickest to
identify all the kids. Ready? Go!!!!

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The boy behind Cathy has a cousin in this classroom.
Tim is the only left-handed boy in the group.
There is a blonde girl called Betty.
The other blonde girl in the classroom is the oldest in the group, but she is not Liz.
The boy with his two arms up is not Tim, but he is the only boy who plays football.
Nobody is sitting on Cathy's right.
Sam is the only child with glasses, and he is sitting next to Cathy's best friend.
Andrew's cousin is the only black boy.
The youngest girl in the group is left-handed and she is sitting at the front of the classroom.
Zac is the goalkeeper in the school football team.
There is nobody sitting behind Anne.

The girl in front of the boy with glasses is not Betty.

2. If you already know who is who in the classroom, now try to answer these
questions:
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Who's
Who's
Who's
Who's
Who's

sitting between Tim and Liz? ____________
Rick's relative? ____________
Cathy's best friend? ____________
the youngest girl in the group? ____________
the oldest girl in the group? ____________


3.

Complete the following sentences with the correct place preposition (they
refer to the picture in exercise 1):

a. Nobody is sitting __________ Tim.
b. Sam is sitting __________ Julie.

c. Rick is sitting __________ Zac.
d. Nobody is sitting __________ Cathy's right.
e. Anne is sitting __________ Sam.
f. Nobody is sitting __________ Julie's left.
g. Rick is sitting __________ Tim and Liz.
h. Liz is sitting __________ the teacher's desk.
i. Nodody is sitting __________ Andrew.

4. Now in pairs, try to write sentences to identify the people in the picture
below (you have to invent names for them). Then, exchange your sentences
with another pair of students and see who can get the solution the quickest!

1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________
6. _____________________________________________________________________
7. _____________________________________________________________________
8. _____________________________________________________________________
9. _____________________________________________________________________
10. ____________________________________________________________________


Instructions and Solutions:
Instructions
For activities 1 ans 4, it is better if you make your students work in pairs or small groups. For them is more fun and
the activities are completed more quickly.
Activities 2 and 3 can be done individually or in pairs.
N.B.

For activity 1 I have identified left-handed and right-handed kids according to the hand they have up on the photo.
In fact, to introduce these activities and in particular these two adjectives, I ask them a question to make them
notice that – usually – they tend to put up the hand they write with. For this “experiment” I tell them: “Rise your
hand if you want to play a game right now”, and then I make them aware of which hand they have put up.
There is a boy in the photo with both hands up, so students won't know if he is left or right-handed until they go
through the complete exercise.
Three of the kids are not really identified with their names in the clues (Julie, Rick and Liz). But you will see that
at the end of the activity only three names remain, and students don't usually have problems to match them with
the right kid.

Solutions:
Activity1:

Andrew

Betty

Anne

Zac

Sam

Julie

Cathy
Tim

Activity 2:
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Who's
Who's
Who's
Who's
Who's

sitting between Tim and Liz? Rick
Rick's relative? Andrew
Cathy's best friend? Anne
the youngest girl in the group? Liz
the oldest girl in the group? Julie

Activity 3:
a. Nobody is sitting IN FRONT OF Tim.
b. Sam is sitting BEHIND Julie.
c. Rick is sitting IN FRONT OF Zac.
d. Nobody is sitting ON Cathy's right.
e. Anne is sitting NEXT TO Sam.
f. Nobody is sitting ON Julie's left.
g. Rick is sitting BETWEEN Tim and Liz.
h. Liz is sitting OPPOSITE the teacher's desk.
i. Nodody is sitting BEHIND Andrew.

Activity 4:

Students' own answers.

Rick

Liz