I'm stumped on this too. "I'm sure" is the only thing I can sort of work with. How about a game of Mafia? Make sure the students say "I'm sure he did it!" The other sections are about detectives so goes along the lines. http://www.wikihow.com/Play-MafiaBut really screw this section, I'm doing a bomb game and being lazy.
Here is my .ppt for "Follow the Clues".The target is aimed at lower/intermediate level, but the difficulty can easily be ramped up.This lesson works best arranging class into small groups, and giving each group a whiteboard (or paper).Warm up: Word-wall activity: basically 2 minutes to find as many anagrams of the chapter's title (Follow the Clues) as possible.Vocabulary 1 ("Have you heard that...?" "Yes, I heard it on the TV") listing media activity and bookwork p. 138.Vocabulary 2 ("I think that..." "I'm sure that..." etc) Arrange words by levels of certainty. Bookwork p. 139 and Stephansalz's excellent "Certainty game" which I spiffed up to match my .ppt theme.Lesson worked well for my classes. High involvement, and a pretty competitive lesson.Instructions are in the slide notes! Cheers!
I had a lot of success with both these lessons. Warning: Need a lot of management for heads up 7 up. They were pretty into it but make sure you tell them, ONLY TOUCH THE THUMB. No hitting or excessive force. And also, make sure the kids who are supposed to have their heads down jokingly touch the thumb next to them. Causes a lot of confusion. For the memory game: make sure you give them pieces of paper to write down their answers. and have the teams read their answers one by one as a group - otherwise you'll get a lot of cheating. writing the answers prevents a lot of that. Thanks for the idea!