7 Games For Have/Have Got

Fun activities for I have, He has, Have you got? etc, most of which also work well in adult
beginner classes.
1. Make me say Yes, I have/Make me say No, I havent
Students ask the teacher or a classmate Have you got? questions and get one point each time the
answer is Yes, I have. They can then play the more amusing version where they get one point for each
time their partner says No, I havent to questions like Have you got a helicopter?
2. I dont know what Ive got
Students try to ask each other Have you got? questions that they dont know the answer to, e.g.
How many books have you got? and Have you got butter in your fridge now? They get one point
each time the answer is I dont know. Theyll probably need suggested topics and/or questions stems
to help them come up with ideas.
3. I have got the ability to bluff
This is based on a common card game that is usually called Cheat or Liar. Give each group of three
to five students a pack of cards. The pack should have equal numbers of different kinds of vocabulary
that they have studied recently, e.g. eight different foods, eight different items of clothing and eight
different kinds of weather. The pack is dealt out. Students can look at their own cards but not anyone
elses. Students take turns laying any number of cards down on the table while making statements like
I have three kinds of transport and I have seven family members, and the first person with no cards
left in their hand is the winner. They can lie when they are laying the cards down, but just after they do
so other people can accuse them of not telling the truth by saying Liar. If they were lying they have to
take all the cards that are the table, but if their accuser is wrong that person has to take all the cards
there.
4. Have got Sentence completion guessing game
Students fill in sentences like I have got in my pocket and I have got but it is broken to make true
statements about themselves, then read out just the part they have written (e.g. dirty tissues and a
radio controlled car) for their partner to guess what sentence that was put in.
5. I have got definitions
Perhaps from a list, students explain what object they are thinking of without saying its name, starting
with sentences with have got like I have got three and I think everybody in this class has one then
moving onto physical description, adjectives etc. Their partners compete to guess what is being
described. To make sure this language is in the game, youll need to choose the objects carefully and be
strict about at least the first sentence having have/have got in it.
6. Have I got the right idea?
It is also possible to bring questions into that kind of guessing game by playing the well-known Yes/No
game 20 questions starting with Have you got questions like Have you got one? Yes, I have Have I
got one? Probably and Has everyone in the world got one? Almost everyone. Students will
probably need help with both the questions and the things that they should answer the questions about.
7. You have to say Yes, I have
This is another bluffing game, but with more speaking. Students have to answer all questions, even ones
like Have you got more than 100 pairs of shoes?, with Yes, I have. Their partner can then ask three
Wh questions such as Where do you keep them? before they guess if the original Yes, I have answer
was true or not.