Conversation Cards - Let´s Talk mini - Alike

The world is the way we see it. A perfect example of the power of our interpretation is the ALIKE cards.

Each of the 48 cards in the “Alike” set contains a pair of people, things, activities or situations that do not seem to be related to each other, but the students’ task is to determine in what way they are similar by completing the sentence: “… are alike because both/neither …”.

You can ask the students to use one or both of the quantifiers in their explanation.

You can ask the students to give a specific number of explanations.

To make the activity more varied, you can ask the students to replace “similar” with “different”, so that instead of looking for similarities, they look for differences.

Another idea is for one student to choose a card and hide its content from their partner(s). The student changes the beginning to “they / these two things” and completes the sentence, while the other students try to guess what the two words are.

You can also ask the students to replace one of the words on their card with something else, on the condition that the sentence they originally created must still be true. An even more difficult task will be to replace both words without changing the ending of the sentence.

Of course, you can ask the students to change one of the words in each pair and complete the sentence in a new way. They can replace the words using suggestions from other cards in the set or prepare their own pairs of words to add to the 48.

Sample cards:

*Teachers and ghosts are alike because both/neither …

*Money and time are alike because both/neither …

*Going to school and dating are alike because both/neither …

*Baking and talking to children are alike because both/neither …