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Class:

PEOPLE QUIZ
1. Get into groups to answer the quiz.
2. Listen to your teacher reading out sentences about famous people. When
you think you know who the person is - call the answer out. But be careful, if
you get the wrong answer, you lose 3 points!
If you get the right answer you get the following points6 points after the first sentence
5 points after the second
4 points after the third
and so on - 1 point for the last sentence
Follow-up
Write your own famous person quiz. Choose three or four people that you think
the rest of the class will know. Write six sentences in order of difficulty.
Example - 1
2
3
4
5
6

She is blonde and tall.

She was discovered when she was fifteen.
She is from Germany.
She appears in car adverts.
She is a top model.
Her first name is Claudia.

Answer: Claudia Schiffer

Read out your questions to the rest of the class.

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LESSON NOTES
PEOPLE QUIZ
Materials: one copy of worksheet per student.
Time: Fifty minutes.
Step 1: Divide the class into groups and explain the rules of the quiz (see worksheet). Read
out the sentences about famous people.
NOTE If you think students in your class will not have heard of the people here, research and
write some questions for other famous people you think they will know. Be as international as
possible, (e.g. Nelson Mandela, Madonna, Steffi Graf, Leonardo di Caprio) or choose people
famous in the students own countries.
When students think they know who the person is, they should call the answer out. But if they
get the wrong answer, they lose 3 points!
Give the following points for a right answer:
6 points after the first sentence, 5 points after the second, 4 points after the third, and so on
with 1 point guessing the person after the last sentence.
It is probably a good idea to name a scorer, as it can be quite difficult to follow the score. The
scorer writes the points of each team up on the board.
Step 2: Do the quiz with the class.
Person 1
1 She wasnt very good at school and left with hardly any qualifications.
2 Her first job after leaving school was as a nanny.
3 She died in a car crash.
4 She was not famous until she got married.
5 She had two sons but her marriage was unhappy.
6 She was married to Prince Charles of England.
Answer: Princess Diana
Person 2
1 This person was often seen smoking a cigar.
2 He was from a poor family in New York.
3 He was good at imitating a funny walk.
4 His dad was a tailor.
5 He was a famous comedian.
6 He had four brothers called Chico, Harpo, Gummo and Zeppo.
Answer: Groucho Marx

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Person 3
1 This person spent most of her childhood in orphanages.
2 This person was quite young when she died.
3 She married three times and her last husband was Arthur Miller, the American playwright.
4 She was perhaps the greatest female sex symbol of the 20th century.
5 Among her most famous films as an actress are Some Like it Hot and
Gentleman Prefer Blondes.
6 Her real name was Norma Jean Baker.
Answer: Marilyn Monroe
Person 4
1 He was the son of the mayor of a small town.
2 He got married young and had three children.
3 Soon after that, he went to London to become an actor.
4 He was born in 1564 in England and died in 1611.
5 He wrote at least thirty-six plays.
6 His most famous plays are probably Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear.
Answer: William Shakespeare
Person 5
1 He was born in Britain in 1899.
2 He spent most of his later life in America.
3 He went to work in Hollywood in 1940.
4 He appeared as an extra in quite a lot of films.
5 As a film director he was brilliant at creating suspense.
6 His most famous films were Psycho, Strangers on a Train and Birds.
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock
Person 6
1 Her mother was a famous writer and her father a famous philosopher.
2 She was born in London at the end of the 18th century.
3 She wrote romances and travel books.
4 She caused a scandal by running off with a poet and marrying him two years later.
5 A lot of films have been made, based on her most famous story.
6 Her best-known book is called Frankenstein.
Answer: Mary Shelley
Follow-up
Working in the same groups, students work out their own quiz. They choose three or four
people and write six sentences about them.
A good idea is to ask students to find out more information about the people they have chosen
for homework.
Do the quiz in class, with students reading out their own questions.
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