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Introd uction
This book contoins over 700 octivities for EFL ond ESOL students, ond is intended to cover oll the importont topics, functions ond structures from elementory to upper-intermediote level. The mojority of octivities included here ore short and to the point, giving the teocher on opportunity to provide on-the-spot proctice, either when the plonned moteriols hove proved insufficient, or when o chonge of focus is needed. They con olso be included in normol lesson plonning. This is an involuoble resource for experienced ond inexperienced teachers, ond is unique in thqt the octivities require no preporotion. All thot is needed is o quick look through the chosen octivity to check the longuoge involved and to estimqte the time needed. 700 ClassroomActivitiesis the ideol tool for teochers who oppreciote the importonce of reocting to students' needs, os ond when they orise.
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700 Classroom Activities is divided into four sections: conversotion, functions, grommor ond vocobulory. The octivities within these sections ore orgonised into cotegories thot crreclrronged olphobeticolly, so thot using the book is o simple motter of turning to the oppropriote poge for the topic in hond. There is qn index ot the bock of this book, where the moin referencesore in bold. There are also referencesto octivities in which the topic is covered incidentally. The octivities foll into four moin cotegories: . The teocher prompts students with questions, key words or phroses. . Cues ore written on the boord. This con either be done while students ore engoged in the previous tosk, or they con be elicited during the presentotion. . The octivity is instigoted by meons of o short dictotion, or through the allocotion of roles to individuols or groups. r A project is ossigned to individuol students and they moke preporotions outside the closs for on octivity to be corried out in the next lesson. The mojority of activities ore written os if spoken directly to the student. The longuoge is not groded for lower levels because of the need to keep the instructions cleor ond concise for the teocher, so sometimes they will need simplifying. Instructions to the teacher ore written in brockets. There is sometimes more thon one octivity under eoch heodinq. The stort of eoch octivity is indicoted with o @.
Grading
The level of difficulty is suggested next to eoch octivity heoding with shoding on the corresponding level icon (E for ElernentoryP for Pre-intermediate, I for Intermedioteond U+ for Upper-intermediote). The range is wider for conversotion topics,where the teocher con usuolly grode the longuoge occordingto the closs.It is more restricted for grommor topics,where structures ore torgetedot specificlevels.
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Thereore sometopicsin this book which moy offend porticulorly sensitiveor eosily emborrossed students,ond otherswhich might leod to ontogonism betweenstudents with potentiolly conflicting opinions.Thesetopicshove been morked A, . It is ot the teocher's discretionto decidewhether or not theseoctivitiesore oppropriote.
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Timing
No timing hqs been given for ony of the octivities;the sizeof the closs,the enthusiosm will of studentsfor conveisotion topiis ond their optitude for grommoticol structures for how determine to teocher to the up is olso It tokes. determinefro* fo"j"" octivity do which words cue or questions of o list is there where especioliy on octivity should io, hove to be fully exploited' not necessarily either for feedbockin to studentsto work on outsidethe clossroom, Theseore assigned and someother projects, Mony octivity. clossroom o into leoding or iesson, o subsequent octivities,require reieorch ott i'h" Internet.Theseare mqrked @. - poirs, Most octivities hqve tvyo or more ports, usuolly with o different focus in eoch with begin groups, open closs,etc. - ond often using djfferent skills. Where octivities is held feedbock Similorly, stoted. 6.r"riiorrr, tfreseore in open clossunless'otherwise no specific is required, focus o speciol in open ciassat the endbf octivities.Unless it should happen os a instruction is given to the teocherto conducto feedbocksession; course. motter of It is olwoys good to vory the focus, to hove studentsworking together in different with every other student'This book combinationsond, of somestogeduring the course, get usedto rnoving from one ploce should students ond groupings different encouroges Whereverspocepermits it is room. to onothlr, os well os-mlngtiig in the middle of the putting studentstogether When horseshoe. o in advisobleto hqve the seoti on? tables from differentbockgrounds studenti with possible, os diverse os in groupstheseshould be English.In mixed through opinions ond expbriences shoring interests different with ond the diversity of exploit to oble odvontoge of being there is the obv"ious notionolity closses benefit also Students exchange. informotion o greot deol of culturesfot hove' speokers "".o"roging longuoge different thot English In from the relqtive str|nglfrs ond obilities get to know their studentswell they will identify experiences When teochers ore stoges There obout. to tolk them encouroge to in certoin studeits thot they would Iike ot the is usuolly This on individuol. interviewing groups involve to mony octivitieswhich end of an octivitY. friendly Teom gomescrrecln integrol port of mony activitiesond they enoblethe kind of ond lesson, the in involvement emotionol students' incieoses thot competitiveness They ore alsogreatfun. ln teom work, ond other group thereforetheir receptiveness. by octivities,it ii importont to moke surethot one studentdoesnot dominote, either gomes' during clnswers too mony giving by or soying too much during conversotions, else If one student dominot6s,osk him/her not tb give ony more onswersuntil everybody in the teom hos hod o 9o.
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of It is usually o good ideo to write up the title of the octivity ot th outsef os o woy itself' the title obout is closs the to question first the sometimes ond leoding into th"etopic, o until secret kept be to Occosi6nolly,however,the moin point of the octivity is intended up' written not is title the teocher, to the Ioter stoge.t1 th"r" instonces,wfriifr will be obvious A few Where written cuesore needed,these ore kept short to reducewriting up time' require o bit more writing, ond this con be done while the closs exomplesond sentences os they ore students con olso copy sentences is involved in the previousoctivity or stoge. decisions making ore students so thot in UJfinea to gops written, ond thesecon include os theY write.
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My house &* In poirs, tell eoch other obout the ploce you live. Is it a flot or o house?Do you rent it? Describeyour favourite room. Tell your portner obout on interestingplace you hove lived, e.g.I usedto liveon a boat/ in a tent ... & Broinstormsome differentkinds of occommodotionond think of on odiectiveto - luxurious. describe eoch one, e.g.palace of living in theseploces. h In smoll groups,discuss the odvontogesond disodvontoges :-"-'-.'-"-----'-"*
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ETP'!ffi Flatmates In poirs, imogine you ore looking for someoneto shoreyour flot. Write o newspoper including informotion obout the room, the flot ond a contoct number. advertisement Moke sureyou both hqve o copy of the ad. Swopportnerswith another poir ond role-ploythis telephoneconversotion. in for o flotmote in the locol poper. However, StudentA, you hove put on odvertisement 'Room to rent. Coll 020 876 1427.' order to sovemoney you kept it short: Student B, you ore looking for o room. Ask student A obout the room, the flot, the other tenonts,the rent and ony rules. Swoproles,ond role-ploy the conversotionogoin. Whot problemscclnhoppen betweenflotmotes?(Broinstormideoswith the clossabout theseissues.)
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food friends, telephone, TV,music,bathroom, housework, money, r i '
Imogine you went aheod with the tenoncy.It is now six months loter ond you ore fed up with living together. In your poirs, role-ploy an orgument. Try to sort out your differences.
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In smoll groups,designyour dream home ond gorden. Include informotion obout rooms, decor,furniture, equipment,focilities,locotion ond stoff. Preporeo short presentotionto the closs.If there is on ortist in the group, get him/her to do someillustrotions. Have a clossvote for the best house. Projects IE]$ffitrwl
@ Visit o stotelyhome websiteond moke notesqbout it to bring to the next lesson. Describe the home to the closs. $sFind a housefor sole on the Internet, print out the descriptionond bring it to the closs. buyer. betweenthe estoteogent ond o prospective In pairs, role-play o conversqtion
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In poirs, ogree on on onimal to fit eoch of these descriptions.
slowes!, the_ the fastest, the mostdangerous, the mostbeautiful, i ttr" biggest, thefriendliest t thesmelliest, theugliest, thecuddliest, tf'em6Jtunusual, i r - - . - - , * _ - _ - " * * " - - - ' - * " - , 1 :*-,",,---,--,---,*,--,* your ideos with onotherpoir. Compore
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! (inthemouth)' looka gifthorse the worm). Don't The earlybird (catches hatched).! (before they're yourchickens count Don't do). Monkeysee,(monkey (themicewillplay)' the cat'saway, When i
Write them down and decidewhich I,m going to reod the reol endings,out of sequence. meon. proverbs whot the they fit. Discuss expressions Do you hove onimol proverbsin your longuoge?Exploin someto the closs.
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In smoll groups,broinstorm o few of the pros ond consof the following: keepingonimols in zoos;modein livestockforming ond pest control. In your groups,chooseone of these writing tosks.Appoint one personto do the writing. an accountof how he ended up there] in a zoo, including of an elephant , the thoughts a sheepand a pig on a farm between the scriptof a conversation l life of a mouselivingin your kitchen '- ---r - dayto-day ---f oI tne an " * account ---" i *
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Hove you, or anybody you know, everbeen the victim of o crime?In poirs, tell your portner whot hoppened.
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Punishment A
In poirs, decide on oppropriote oenolties for these crimes.
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Neighbourhoodwatch
violent crime Therehos been on increosein crime in your neighbourhood,especiolly ond cor crime. You ore going to ottend o meeting to decidewhot to do. your ideosond moke notes. Preporefor the meeting in poirs. Discuss Pair A, you ore: new 'get tough on crime' policy. the government's The locol MP - You represent The locol chief of police - You believein zerotoleroncetowordscriminols. Poir B, you ore: A locol youth worker - You wont more money for community projectsond you believe thot preventionis better thon punishment. An ex-criminol - You ore now working to help reformedcriminals. Poir C, you clre: The leoder of the locol tenants' ossociotion- You wont o sofer environment for the tenonts. - You wont find out the views of oll concerned. A reporterfrom the locol newspoper PoirsA, B ond C, join to form groupsof six. Role-ploythe meeting. (If the clossdoesnot divide into groupsof six, extro studentscon join poir C as reporters or oct os choirperso4to monoge the meeting.) or locol residents
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Big bad wolf? A

Who knows the story of Little RedRiding Hood?Form groupswith thosewho do not ond tell them the story.(If no one knows it, tell the classyourselfand then qsk for o summory.) Write o few odlectivesto describeLittle Red Riding Hood ond o few to describethe wolf. the wolf wos not the criminol but the victim. thot suggests Here is someevidence and dumpedin the He was shotthreetimes, skinned r Thewolfhas beenfoundmurdered. I riverwithhis stomach she had Red RidingHoodwas arrested WhenLittle fullof stones. has disappeared. I ttrewolf'scoat on and was carryinga gun. The grandmother
Work in groups of three. Role-ploy the police interview with Little Red Riding Hood. Students A ond B, you ore police officers ond you wont o confession. Student C, you ore Little Red Riding Hood. Deny everything and give on olibi. Exploin how you come to have the coot ond gun. Police officers, report bock to the class. Whot wos Little Red Riding Hood's explonotion? .Are you going to chorge her? If so, hos she got onything to soy before she's chorged?
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Do you ogreewith the soying 'An eye for on eye,o tooth for o tooth'? Work in two groups:thosein favour of copitol punishment, ond those ogoinst it. Prepore your argumentsfor a clossdebote.Appoint one personto speokfirst for your group, The othersshould help with the orgumentsand listen for ond onother to speoksecond. problemswith the other group'sorguments.(Put onyone who is undecidedin the smoller of the two groups.You could also osk o studentto choir the debote.)
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crime A ETPIW OrEanised

Is there o powerful crime orgonisotionin your country?Whot is i1 6slled ond whot kinds Why is orgonised of octivity is it involved in? boes it have ony influencein government? others? in not ond countries powerful in some crime so Work in two groups,A ond B. Broinstormideasto Group A, you ore the leodersof the moin globol crime orgonisotions. improve your power ond Profit. Group B, you ore the leodersof the police forcesof the most powerful countries.Broinstorm ideosto help reducethe power of orgonisedcrime. Comporeideosos o closswith studentsin Group A toking it in turns to call out one of their ideosfor studentsin Group B to try ond counteroct,e.9. A - We'regoing to smugglemoreinto the countrythroughthe ports. at all ports' securityand the numberof randomchecks B - WeII,ie'vi decidedto increase l-ElFlE!ffiI Project @ Visit o websiteon the subiectof crime, e.g.the FBI'sten most wonted website.Moke notes on whot you find out for o presentotionto the closs.
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of Iife in o multiculturol city? Whot does *s*" Whot ore the odvontogesqnd disodvontoges 'When meon? Do you ogreewith it? do' Romons the in Romedo os the proverb betweenculturesusing thesetopics. the differences S" In groups,discuss
t . " gestures, Ianguage, religion, weddings, family, festivals, famouspeople clothing, music,food, ad, alphabet.
s* What hoppenswhen different culturesmeet?Think of positiveexomples,e.9.the Moorish influence on Spoin.
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Then osk studentsto (If it's o singlenationality closs,onswerquestionsobout the UK/USA. o different country Allocote country. obout onother work in groups ond write sentences groupscon guess other if the ond see sentences out their reod group. to Ask them to eoch the countrv.)
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#" Whot culturol octivities do you toke port in? In poirs, tell eoch other obout what you do ond the plocesyou go, e.g. cinemos,theotres, galleries,museums,etc. (Ask studentsto specifyfilms, ploys ond exhibitions.) fovourite pointing, building F* Mingle with the rest of the clossond find out everyone's your opinion. Did clnyone who shores of onyone nome the and pieceof music. Note down find someonewith the sqme three favourites?
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Whot ore the stoges of the English school system? (Drow the chort on the board ond elicit <rsmuch os possible from the closs.) 5-1 1 PrimarySchool 11-16Secondary School
11-14 All Subiects including M a t h sa n d E n g l i s h 1 4 - 1 6G S C E ' O ' l e v e l s ,
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in your country, with the system system school the English In smollgroups, compore length,etc. degree fees, ogeronges, includingsubjects, =lFfffi Discipline
should be disciplined? s* How do you think disobedientond disruptiveschoolchildren In groups,decideon the best methods.
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parents, detention, punishment, expulsion, discussion, lines, corporal
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In smoll groupsrdiscuss the adviceyou would give to o studentwho wants to learn a new longuoge.Agree on your top ten suggestions for effectivestudy,e.g.Keepa vocabulary notebook Askthe teacherif you do not usingdifferentcoloursfor differentparts of speech. understand something.
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Class contract In smoll groups,moke two lists of dutiesto help make o closseffective:1) students'duties; and 2) the teocher'sduties, e.g. Thestudents must arriveon time. Theteachermust correct written work within a week.Compore your lists with the other groups. Which dutiesshould go in o closscontroct?(Elicitideasond write them on the boord.) Projects @ Work with onother studentwho would like to study the some subjectos you. Visit o university or FE(FurtherEducotion)collegewebsiteond print out someinformotion. Find out obout courses, fees,entry quolificotionsond other octivitiesovoiloble for stgdents.
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i$pWhot ore the main threots focing our environment? How con they be ovoided? In poirs, discuss these questions, comporing your experience of different countries. i*-*^*-'*'--"-^ i Wfrat are the most well-known ecological threats? Are people environmentallyconscious?
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li!p" In groups, write o Green Porty manifesto, giving your proposols for on environmentolly friendly lifestyle.
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Public consultation meeting A poper fcrctory is plonned for your town, which is very beoutiful but high in unemployment.Thereore concernsfrom the locol community about pollution ond the destruction of on ancient forest neorby. In groups of eight, you ore going to role-ployo public consultotionmeeting to listen to Iocol views. (Allocotetheseroles.If the clossdoesnot divide into groups of eight, drop one or two of the roles.) In fovour of the foctory: the moyor, o representqtive of the poper compony,the building controctor,on unemployedperson. Agoinst the foctory: o member of the GreenPorty,on environmentol scientist,o locol croftsmon, o local hotel owner. your orgumentswith the peoplewho shoreyour views, Beforethe meeting,discuss consideringpollution, visuol impoct, tourism, jobs and effects on other businesses. Role-ploythe meeting.
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Eco-warrior
Whot is on 'eco-worrior'? Whot kind of issues do they fight for ond how do they fight for them? In poirs, imogine o motorwoy is being built through on oreo of oustandingnoturol Whot orgumentswould beauty. How would you opposeit if you were on eco-worrior? you moke, ond whot orguments would you expect from the developer? Role-ployon interview betweeno journolist ond on eco-worriorchoined to o tree. Discuss the planned development,how long he/shehos been there ond whqt he/sheplons to do when the bulldozersorrive.
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Fashionstatements questions In smollgroups, ond choose someone to report the group's brieflydiscuss these opinions ond onswers to the closs.
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Wheredo you buy your clothes? you'veeverbought? garment What is the most expensive Wnat is good and bad taste in clothes? personin the class? Who is the best-dressed in fashion? Whichcountries are the most influential What do vou thinkof the fur trade? Wfratfamousdesigners do you know about? What is a 'fashionstatement'? Do you ever makeyour own clothes? What pieceof clothing wouldyou most liketo buy? What pieceof clothingwould you most hate to wear? ls fashionimportant? Why (not)? What do clothes tellyou aboutthe personwearing them? ;
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Why do peopleweor uniforms?Hove you everworn one?Tell us when it wos, ond why you wore it. How is o uniform different from o dresscode? Whot is 'dressingdown'? Here is o list of peoplewho dressin o particulor way. Describe how they dress. Con you think of onv more?
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In groups,discuss the meoning of thesesoyings. t**"****'**--* Keepit underyour hat I wear the trousersin this family. We'llhaveto tightenour belts. She'sgot a bee in her bonnet. Keepyourshirton. He was caughiwith his pantsdown. Put yourself He'stoo big for his boots. in my shoes. Tell the rest of the closssome clothessoyingsfrom your country.
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$sWrite o descriptionof someoneyou sow todoy, or on imoginory descriptionof o famous personyou'd like to meet.Then work in poirs. StudentA, reod the beginning of your description.StudentB, osk yes/no questionsabout whot the personwos weoring. Then swop roles. Moke notesfor o &. Usethe Internet to find o biography of o fomous foshion designer. you feel strongly obout. Work in short presentotion.Bring somepicturesof his/her designs smoll groupsond show the otherswhot you hove brought ond why you chosethe designer.
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Which of you you ate ond drankyesterday? s" In smollgroups, tell eochothereverything
hqs the heolthiest diet? @ I'm going to osk you some questions. Listen corefully to eoch one. (Direct eoch question to o different student. Listen to the onswer, then osk onother student to repeot the question. Ask the whole closs to write it down.)
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the most i fruit? What's Whatis yourfavourite i Areyoua goodcook?Whatis yourspeciality? you a typical food?What's thinkof British Whatdo ihingyou've evereaten? i i expensive
In pairs, osk ond onsweroll the questions. g*'In groups,find out how mony different kinds of restourontyour group hos been to, e.9. Chinese,Greek,etc. Which group hos been to the most? In your goups,imogine you ore oll going out for o meol. Agree on which kind of restquront to 90 to.
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Potato game F*'Toketurns to nome one thing thot con be done with o pototo, e.g. It con be usedas a paperweight If you can't think of on idea, you ore out of the gome. The lost personto give o use is the winner. without &" In groups,toke turns to think of o vegetobleond onswertheseten questions After eoch question,one of the othersin the group will hove o 9o noming the vegetoble. whot the vegetobleis. Whoevergetsit right wins points - 10 on the first guess, ot guessing ond so on. 9 on the second, | i 1 2 3 4 5 Can it be boiled? ls it countable or uncountable? Doesit grow in the ground? Canyou eat it raw? ls it bitteror sweet? 6 7 B 9 10 Do peopleeat a lot of them/it in the U[(USA? i ' it rnrith? I it with? What do you eat How big is it? What colour is it? What'sthe first letter? ;
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In smoll groups, moke a list of different woys of cooking rice, e.g. egg fried rice,paella, rice pudding. On your own, write instructionsfor how to cook perfectrice. Comporethem with the others in your group.
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I'm going to dictote one questionto eoch person.Mingle and ask oll the other students your question.Moke o note of their onswers.(Dictoteeoch questionquickly,but go through them two or three times so thot studentsget onother chonceto take down their question. After the survey, elicit the results ond write them on the boord.)
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How often do you eat out? Do you likefishand chips? Do you preferCoke or Pepsr? Wheredo you buy your food? Do you eat a lot of chocolate?
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Have you ever eoten onyth ing unusuol?Is there onything which you think peopleshould not eot? Why?
where in the world peopleeot thesefoods,ond whether you would In smoll groups,discuss os port of the projectbelow.) eot them. (Aniwers can be reseorched
;flies,1 tripe, brains, snails, kidneys, locusts, snake, nestsoup, bird's eyes, seaweed, 1 sheep's
In your groups,put the foodsin order from the most to the leost pleasontsounding.
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. Write oboutthe UK/USA/Austrolio/... prepore o setof questions In smollgroups,
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Describe and draw mountoin, woterfoll ond beoch you In poirs, tell eoch other obout the most impressive hove ever seen. Sit facing eoch other ond moke sureyou connot seeyour portner'snotebook.Imogine o beoutiful scene,drow it ond describeit to your portner, who will olso drow it. When you your scenes, comporethe drawings.How good were your descriptions? hove both described @ &* How mony oreos of outstonding notq,rol beouty do you know obout in the UK/USA/ Austrolio/lrelond?Hove you been to ony of them? Work in four groups.I'm going to give eoch group o country ond someareos.Usethe Internet to find out obout theseploces,how you get there, whot the londscopeis like ond whot kind of octivitiesyou con do there. Preporeo short presentotionfor the closs.
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Who in the clossthinks they ore very heolthy? Are there ony fitness fanotics? In groups,write ten piecesof odvicefor peoplewho wont to get fit.
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In groups, discuss the woys in which heolth core hos chonged. Here ore some topics.
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Work in two groups,A ond B. Group A, broinstorm things thot moke peoplehoppy. Group B, broinstorm things thot moke peopleunhoppy. Find o portner from the other group ond comporeyour ideos.Agree o Iist of ten tips for a hoppy life.
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Work in two groups, A ond B, for o clossdebote. (SeeDebote on poge 29 for full instructions.)Group A, preporeorgumentsin fovour of theseproposols.Group B, preporeorgumentsogoinst them.
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Do you think there will ever be o new pondemic diseose?In groups, qgree on the stoges of o plon for deoling with an outbreak of a previously unknown contogious diseose.Think obout how to control the spreod of the diseqse, identifying ond curing it, ond how to deol with public hysteria ond the press.
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In closs,work in groupsond shore the informotion you hove found. (Someother issues thot you might like to suggest for reseorch ore cleon woter, tobocco,ond nutrition.)
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(Elicitthe nomes of two historicolly importont people.Then drow o picture of o bolloon on the boord, with someonejumping out of it.) Work in two groups.(Allocoteone of the important peopleto eoch group.) The bolloon hos o leok ond it con only ccrrryone person.Convinceme thot your personshould be the one to survive.Why is he/shemore usefulto the humon race th6n the other person? Discuss your orgumentsond toke turns to presentthem. I'll decidewho hos to jump. Work in groups of five for onother bolloon debote.Eochchooseo fomous personond preporethe reosons why you should stoy ond the othersshould jump. When you hove finished, vote for the winner. (Voriotion:This con be ployed with professions insteadof individuols, e.g.lowyeq,doctor.)
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In smoll groups,discuss what you know obout theseoreosof British history.Appoint 0 secretory to moke notes. invaders, colonialism, revolution, imperialism, kingsand queens,the Firstand SecondWorldWars Work with a portner from onother group ond compore notes.
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how In groups,broinstorm someimportont eventsin the history of the world' Discuss out turned hod or hoppened, not hod events the if tro*odoyt different be thiigs rnigrrt Britain 1588, in England in invading Armada had succeeded diffeiently] e.g. If the Spanish country. would be a Spanish-speaking Monuments your group work in groups.choose o fomous historical ploce you know well ond tell qbout it. Here ore someuseful expressions'
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politics' trade' religion, people, unification, ancient i prehistory, i revolution anti-heroes, and heroes I andimperialism, i bonniatism I "
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of Babylon' Gardens Hanging ! of Alexandria, oi tgypl, Pharos I Hyramlos iolossusof Rhodes Halicarnassus, ai Mausoleum StJueof Zeus, of Artemis, Temple -l I .--,*, |,*_--*-J,---**-"--***'*;.' !
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Whoseportner hod o porticulorly interestingholidoy? Tell us obout it.
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Whot odvicewould you give to someonegoing on holidoy to your country? Work in smoll groupsof studentswho oll know o porticulor city. (Ideolly,different groups work on different cities.) Write o list of your top ten attroctions for o visiting friend, including famous plocesond somethqt touristsdon't know obout. Tourist alphabet |EF,.ffiffiffi I'll name o country beginning with the IetterA. The first studentwill tell me the copitol city, and then nome o country beginning with B, ond so on. If you con't think of o country or the copitol, you ore out of the gome. The winner is the last student still playing. Family holiday l-E]$ffiHlffi @ Wgrk in groups of six. You ore membersof the some family ond ore going on holid<ry together,but you eoch hove cl very different ideo obout the kind of holidoy you wont. Role-ploythis discussion. Grondmo: not obrood! Dod: sun, seo qnd sand Mum: sightseeing, museums Son, 18: mountqineering/odventure Daughter,16: o spirituol retreotSon/Doughter, 7: theme pork &* I'm going to give you someideosfor unusuol holidoys.work in two groups,A ond B. Group A, brainstorm os mony odvontogesos possible. Group B, broinstorm os mony disodvantoges os possible. picking, mushroom Antarctic exploration, swimming with sharks, ! cheesemaking,murdermysteryweekend,battlere-enactment j
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Work in groups of four. Imogine you hove eoch just got bock from o different odventure holidoy. Here qre the four holidoys; decide where you went ond tell eoch other whot you did ond sow.
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(Arrongethe studentsso that they ore stonding/sittingin o circle.Stondin the middle. $e" Ask eoch of these questionsto individuol students ot rondom. After they onswer it, tell them to repeotthe questionto the next studentond moke o note of the student'sonswer. Indicote thot they should continue the choin so the questionprogresses oround the closs. Meonwhile, introducethe other questions so thot in the end there ore lots of ouestions moving oround the closs.)
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On o pieceof poper,write the following three things: somethingyou clregood ot, ot and somethingyou'd like to leorn, e.g. DIY,winemaking,to somethingyou crrehopeless play the guitar. Swop popers with o portner. Find out os much informotion obout your portner's onswers os possible. (Invite two or three studentsto prepore o lecture about their oreo of expertisefor the next of the end.) lesson.Have o questionond onswersession
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Propertyis theft. Time is money. He who paysthe pipercallsthe tune. Moneyis the rootof all evil.
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You eoch hove one minute to tolk obout the topic I give you. You must not hesitote,repeot words or deviotefrom the topic. If you do, onother studentcon chollengeyou ond toke over the topic. Whoeveris tolking at the end of the minute getso point. (Youcon relox the rules by, for exomple, only bonning repetition of nouns, or giving the tolker two lives.) computers,! clothes, London, TV,bears,wine,cars,grammar, : pets,music,parties, radio,America Bond, the weather, James pasta, teacher, the work, ing, bmot i i
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In poirs, toke turns to read out your openers. Write o few unusuol conversationopeners. your portner hos to respondin o convincingwoy, e.g.A - I didn't knowyou couldknit. B - (Knitting)Oh well, it's iusta scarf' Nothing complicated. (Hereore somepossibleoPeners.) ls that your baby? He'san absoluteangel. I didn'tknow you did TaiChi. Hil Haveyou caughtany fish Yet? i You nevertold me you had a pet tarantula. i So you'vestartedsmokingcigarsagain.
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of poper: 1) on In four groups,chooseone personto draw four pictureson seporotepiecesoll together (Collect them oction. 4) on place, 3)-o object, inonimate 2) on onimote object, pictures the holf Toke groups. ond shuffle them.) |oin onother group so thai there ore two story' o compose to eoch ond use qll the picturesyour group receives Projects @ Look up o folk story from your countryon the Internet" s* (Formixed notionolity closses). A4 when printed Ideolly,it should .o"ioiti illustroiions ottd b" no longerthon two sidesof reod' to others the for woll the on it up out. Bring your story to clossond put the next e" Look up urbon legendson the Internet ond print one of them out to bring to most the is which ond lesson.In class,decidewhich one is the most interesting unbelievoble.
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Does onyone know the story of Robinson Crusoeor the film Castaway? (Elicit some of the detoils.)In smoll groups,imogine you hove been shipwrecked on o desertislond. Choose ten objectsto sqvefrom the ship ond exploin why you chosethem. Comporeyour list with onother group. (On the boord, drow o picture of a floating bottle with o rolled up messoge in it.) Whot is in the bottle?It tells the story of someone's shipwreckon o desertislond ond consequent strugglefor survivol. In your groups,tolk togetherond moke notesobout whot is contoinedin the messoge ond when it wos sent,e.g.Left London storm, lune 1757.Violent just me and cat. Foundcoconuts SouthPacific.No survivors, ... When you hove finished,choosesomeonefrom your group to reod out your messoge. As o whole closs,decidewhich of the costowoys you think most deserves to be rescued. In the some groups,discuss whot you know obout the doy-to-doylife on boord o lorge sailing boot of thot time. Tolk obout the following. r11
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Imogine you ore drifting on a roft in the middle of the oceon.How would you survive? (Elicitos mony of theseissues os possible.)
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movingthe raft, navigation, protection from the sun, signals, food, water,morale In three groups,imogine you ore the survivorsof o plone crosh.The oircroft connot be repoiredbut it did not cotch fire. You don't know where the neqrestpeopleqre. One of you hos q broken leg. Agreethe bestplon for survival ond moke notes.I'm going to tell you whot type of environment you find yourselves in. jungle 3 The arctic 1 The middleof the desert 2The Amazon Poss your plon to the next group. Con you spot ony problemswith their plon? Ask questionsto checkthe detoils,ond tell them where you think they went wrong.
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In two groups,designo regime for o high-securityprison thot no one will be able to escope from. Include o plon of the building, times the different octivitieshoppen (exercise time, lights out, etc.)ond the visiting rights of the prisoners. Exchongeplons with onother group ond work out how to escope from their prison. Work with o portner from the other group. Sit oppositeeqch other ocross the toble. StudentA, you ore visiting StudentB in prison. You are going to help him/her to escope. StudentB, tell StudentA obout your escope plons ond crrrcrnge for the help you will need when you ore outsidethe prison wolls. Then swop roles.
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Look up wilderness survivol skills on the Internet. Moke notesobout one of the survivol tips you see.In the next lesson,get into groupsand sharewhot you hove leornt. In the sctme groups,discuss how you would survivefor o yeor in the wilderness.
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Street, ER,Sesame TheX Files, Thesimpsons, starTrek, Friends, Mr Bean, Investigation Scene Crime Brothel Big Date, Blind to be a Millionaire? Whowants
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I'm going to dictote one question to eoch person. Mingle ond osk oll the other students your question. Moke o note of their onswers.
i ls theremorethan one TV in your home? t Wouldyou liketo livewithouta W? How many hoursa week do Youwatch TV? Do you watch soap operas?Which ones? programmes? language How oftendo you watch English Do you watch sport?Which ones? W Programme? What is your favourite Do you watch natureProgrammes? on TV? ls theretoo muchviolence Do you leavethe TV on when you're not watchingit?, be banned? aimedat children Shouldadvertisements Do vou watch the news everydaY?
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thesequestions. In groups,discuss studentin the class? i Who'sthe most punctual What for? How manystudentsin your group use a calendar? i How many of you havegot a watch? How often do you look at it? !I time of day/year? What is your favourite that is a wasteof time' Namesomethinq 'leisure 'quality society'? time'?What is the What is
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order. in chronologicol words put these s* In smollgroups, parties, i marriage, housework, exams, retirement, nappies, i homework, greyhair, teddybears aeroplanes, ;;;", ;pb..ib'litv, paper i i i -,-_.__--"* -.-:
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Swopportnerswith onother poir ond role-ploythe conversation. StudentA, you ore cl possenger at possportcontrol. StudentB, you clreon immigrotion officer lE]ffif,Lll Cars Y Ot o pieceof poper,moke somenotesobout the model qnd colour of cor you would most like to own, but don't write your nclme. I'll collectthem and reod them out. Try to ouesswho wonts eoch cor. @ Who hos o driving licence? How mony lessons did you hove?Did you possfirst time? Tell us obout what hoppenedduring your driving test. In smoll groups,discuss the differences betweenthe highwoy codein the UK/USAond in your country. F* In smoll groups,tell eoch other obout o memoroblecor iourney.
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rote for o week'shire, Look up somecor hire componieson the Internet. Find the cheopest etc. but be coreful to checkthe mileoge ollowonce,the deposit,the insuronceexcess, with o portner. Comporeyour reseorch
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Do peoplespendtoo much of their lives working? What is the employment situation like of globolisotionon the job morket? in your country?Whot are the effects In smqll groups,tell eoch other obout thesejobs.
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of my job. (Pretendonly to heor the grommaticolly Ask me questionsqbout theseospects correctquestions.) to interview your portner obout his/her job. (If fewerthon In poirs, use similar questions put them in smoll groups.If no one is working, osk them to holf the studentsore in work, imogine o job they would like.) lEl,ffiffiffi Globalisation Work in two groupsof six. (If the clossdoesnot divide, moke one or more groupssmoller ond tqke clwoyone of the rolesbelow.)Eachof you chooseo different number from 1 to 6. the building of o clothesfoctory in o poor country. I'm going to You qre going to discuss give you o role occordingto the number you chose. In the poor country: In the rich country: 4 Unemployedfoctory worker 1 Businessmon/investor 5 Politicion 2 Anti-copitalist protestor 6 Environmentolist 3 Factory worker Tqke turns to soy if you ore in fovour of the foctory ond how it will offect your life ond the country if it is built. Assumingthat the factory is going oheod, tolk togetheros a group to negotiotethe best possibledeal for everybodyconcerned.
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E*'Mingle ond find out whether the other studentsin the closscon or connot do these things. Keepo note of their onswersfor o feedbocksession. i juggle,playchess,ridea horse,go cross-eyed, speakFrench, swim,drive,paint,
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@ Write o list of things thot you cqnnot do, but which you think other students in closs con do. Toke turns to read some of them out and see if they ore true, e.g. I can't swim, but I think Elenacan.
Somethingspecial ffi[mfiffi-u! Who is it with lotsof obilities? do?Do you knowonybody e" Whot thingscon Superman
ond whot con he/shedo? In groups of three or four, find out whot speciolobilities you've got betweenyou. Here ore sometopicsto think obout. Which group hos got the most speciolobilities?
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*w In poirs, moke o list of things peoplecouldn't do one hundred yeorsogo thot they con couldn'ttravelby plane. do now, e.g.People In poirs, moke o list of things you con do now thot you couldn't do when you were o child, ond things you con't do now thot you could do when you were ct child, e.g. WhenI wasa child I couldget up in the momingsreally fast. I couldn't drivea car. In pairs, moke o list of things that peoplewill be oble to do in the future thot they connot by air taxi. do now, e.g.I think they'Ilbe ableto commute to pushit to a to, e.g. Thecar brokedown,but we managed s' Finish eoch sentence managed garage.
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What You should do is ... using should &, In smoll groups,toke turns to give eoch other odvice for thesesituotions - Youought to C battery. the check should You B start. doesi't My car and ought-;, ;.g:^ get a newone.
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by giving- them some S* Work on your own. Write obout a time you-helped somebody would hove given the good odvice. Then tell o portner qbout the'problem ond see if he/she some odvice.
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Imogine I hove these problems. In groups of three, discuss eoch one ond give me o piece of odvice beginning If I wereyou... . I'll give o point to the group whose odvice I think is best, e.g. T - I get awfuI headaches.S - If I wereyou, I,d go tolhe doctor.
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I can neverfind my keys. My son is terribly shy. The gardenis fullof weeds. People don't listen to me, I can't stop hiccupping. I can't find a job. My neighbours keepfighting.
l'm overdrawn. My mothernagsme. There's too much to do at work. got any friends. I haven't My-parents are terriblystrict. My lifeis boring. phonebillis huge. My mobile
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In poirs, role-ploy o conversotion betweenthe doctor ond potient, toking turns to be the doctor.After ecch pieceof odvice,try to find o woy to ovoid occeptingit, e.g. D - you shouldstay in bed for threedays.P - But I haveto go to work or the officewiII fa-II apart. D - WelI,it's veryimportant that you get somerest. tE-l-P]ffi Proverbs In poirs, discuss the meoning of theseproverbs. A bird in the hand is worthtwo in the bush. Makehaywhilethe sun shines. You can't judge a book by its cover Too manycooksspoilthe broth. Allthat glitters is not gold. Every cloudhas a silver lining. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. It'sno use cryingoverspiltmilk. expressing its meoning using should / oughtto, e.g.A f9r eoch proverb,write o sentence bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.Youshouldbe contint wilh what you haveand iot alwayslook for more. Tell the clqsssomeproverbsfrom your longuoge.
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In two groups, broinstorm o list of odjectives to describe someone who is unbeoroble to live with. Write o piece of advice next to eoch one, e.g. Lazy - You should tidy up the kitchen more. Toke turns to reod your odvice to the other group ond see if they cctn guess the odjectives.
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describinga bod sl*Work in poirs. I'm going to give each poir o different sentence situotion, ond write it to the led up thot mistokes of five o iequence on situotion. Agree discusswhot the person down. Swopiour Iist with onother poir. Reod their sequence-ond should or shouldn't hove done ot eoch stoge.Write o note of your odviceond give it to the Poir.
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prisonsentence. Kevinwas givena five-year The holidaywas a completedisaster. They got divorcedas soon as they could' Jack is livingon the streetnow. ruinnow. The houseis a comPlete Sharonwas giventhe sack. John went on to becomea streetsweeper' He had to take time off work due to nervousexhaustion'
theseevents,soying whot peopleshould have done to ovoid them' W In groups,discuss I WorldWar ll, Vietnam, of America, the colonisation ! tf'" Titanic, news in the j ! an importanteventin your country a currentsituation **-"^***"--r L*--***:--*-
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(After you hove reod out the whole list, elicit someof the comploints.) In your groups,chooseyour fovourite comploint ond role-ploythis conversotion. Student A, you ore on orgumentotive customer' StudentB, you ore on unhelpful shop ossistont' StudentC, you are the monoger' colled to sort out the problem'
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In poirs, write o mini Imogine you ore in o shop comploining to the solesassistont. for a size12, butyou gave I asked e.g. Customer words, poirs of dialogue with the following get you size L4. I'll a madam. sorry, terribly l'm Assistont size -14. me a a i 0 Euronote / a 20 Euronote i brown/white, satin/matt,lagerlbrtter, ] brown/black,
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ond give eoch other 9{ic5 In pairs, imogine you ore flotmotes.Role-ployo discussion your bikein the haII,it You leave A shouldn't e.g. your behoviour, obout how to chonge makesit dirty. B - Why don't you relax more?It's easyto cleanup later. StudentA, you ore very tidy, like peoceond quiet, study hord, don't-go out very much, usuolly poy the bills on time, do most of the cooking ond housework. Student B, you ore very untidy, like loud music/TV con't be bothered to study, like porties,ore olwoys broke, hote cooking ond housework.
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Car999 (used) Noisybrakes Leakingsunroof Faultyindicator Backfiring e600 Holiday Filthyhotel pool No swimming work Construction delay 12-hour
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In poirs, chooseone of them ond write o letter of comploint. Swopletterswith onother poir you said the hotel had a swimmingpool. ond write o reply, e.g. In your brochure
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somepossiblewords.I'll Here is o five-letterword. (Write five blonks on the boord.) Suggest os one of mine and in the right ploce. write on X for every letter in your word thot's the scrme I'll write on O for every letter in your word thot's the some os one of mine but in the wrong ploce.Try to deducethe correctletters,e.9. Suggestion PAPER SPORT PROVE H O U S E P H O N E Code deductions Example The word can't be great becausethereare only two letters the same.lt couldbe spod or teach. 'p' and an 'r' in the word Theremightbe a 'o' otherwise there a 'p' or an Theword can't include 'o' in spott'. 'p' in paper and for the would an X for the an 'e' at the end of the word. I thinkthere's 'h' or an 'o', otherwise therewouldbe Therecan't be an 'n' in phoneand the 's' in an O for house.ltcan't be the 'e' at the end.Thismeansthat houseso rt must be the 'v'. Theword must the word can'thavean'a','u' or 't'. lt probably 'r' vowel needsanother containan and a 'i' 'e' because thereisn'tan'a','o' be or whichwilleither or'u'.
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Imagine you hove woken up on o Sundoymorning with o terrible heodoche.You con't rememberanything from the night before,but you discoversomeclues.Work in smoll groupsond speculoteobout what hoppened. {*"***-****** j There's numberwith the letters CS in your pocket. : a strange telephone in the kitchen, but you'rea vegetarian. , a half-eaten hamburger i There's i I You'vegot a grazeon your forehead. i The frontdoor is wide open. i is missing fromthe flat. i Nothing i
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A body wos discovered in the clossroom during breok ond the police believe thot someone in the closs is the killer. (Reveal the informotion bit by bit, completing it as necessory.)
body,but he was a non-smoker. i ! fnere was a cigaretteend next to the deceased's i Therewas a suicide handwriting. note,but it wasn'twrittenin the deceased's i ; The notecontained mistakes. ; somegrammar i Forensic had _ hair. that the killer evidence suggests I (colour). was wearing something the killer evidence suggests I Forensic i
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I'm going to give you o loterol thinking problem. (Write it on the boord.) i A man went to a party and drank some of the punch. He then left eady,Everyone Why? died of poisoning. ! elseat the parlywho drankthe punchsubsequently
In poirs, try to work out whot hoppened, e.g. He might have put the poison in the punch. (If no one gets it, give the students clues to lead them in the right direction. The onswer is thot the poison was in the ice cubes ond the mon hod Ieft the porty before the ice cubes melted.) (Here ore some more loterol thinking problems thot con be used for past deduction.)
a brokenmatch.What happened? i 1 A man is founddead in a field.He is clutching trip in a desperate (Heand a numberof otherpassengers were makinga balloon i j The balloonhad to loseweightto stop it from crashing, attemptto flee a country. He drewthe shortmatchand had to jump.) ; (Shewalkedblindfolded walkerdied.Explain. The circustight-rope 2 The musicstopped. over a high wire.The band playedas she crossedand when the musicstopped,it was alight. One day the the end of ihe wire and couldsafely the signal that she had reached conductorwas taken ill and the stand-inconductorendedthe pieceof musictoo earlv. She steppedoff to her death.) '
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short,long,blue,beautiful, thin,handsome, tall,straight, pretty, nice,smart,wavy blond, mediumheight,curly, llome' , write o short descriptionof someonein the clqss'but don't write the person's who it is' (Tellthe students ond reod them out for you t9 guess I'll collectthe descriptions iaeoiiy someonefocing them, ond moke sure everyoneis included') who to describe,
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Stond in poirs focing eoch other. Strikeo poselike o stotue for the following. (Reodthese out one ot o time. Only do this octivity if oll the studentsare outgoing.) granny, hero hunter, general, dictator, supermodel, angel,philosophel explorer, 1 boxer, i
A ond B, stond bock to bock. StudentA, get into o reolly Work in groupsof three. Students strongepose.StudentC, tell StudentB how to move in order to copy StudentAs pose,Iike o mirror imooe. ElFlffifg Same difference betweenthe membersof thesegroups.You In poirs, describe to eoch other the differences con look up ony wordsyou don't understondbeforeyou stort your descriptions. r i i i 1 2 3 4 5 prawn.lobstetcrab.shrimp garlic,leek, onion,springonion daffodil tulip,rose,carnation, beef,lamb,pork,venison wine wine,German wine,French wine,ltalian Spanish
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ond o customerwho hos forgotten betweena shopkeeper In poirs, role-ploy o conversotion the nome of the thing he/shewonts. I'll give one studentthe nome of on objectond he/she hos to try to work out what it is, e.g. The shopkeeper hos to describe it to the shopkeeper. (A plug.) Haveyou got one of thosethings that goesin the sinkto stop the waterfrom escaping? (A good way to do this is to show the 'customer'the word in his/her own languoge,using o bilinguol dictionory ond hiding the Englishword.) mousemai, paperclip,lightbulb,ruler, rope,zip, mousetrap, ; teapot,cheesegrater, pin, eraser, staplel whistle scarf,thermosflask,compass,iron,colander, i corkscrew,
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ploces to your portner. In poirs,describe these yourhome yourideal town, house, room, I yourfavourite i
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Howorethey Does onybodyknowwhot o hoiku is?Whereorehoiku from originolly? of the noturolworld (Troditionolly, o snopshot o hoiku is o shortpoemdescribing structured?
ond contoining some reference to the seoson. They ore from Jopon, ond have three lines. The first hos five syllobles, the second seven ond the lost five.) Look ot these exomples.
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ffitffiTlul Place and movement Some ploceand direction. 9o in both. wordsinto two groups: Dividethese
along,into,below,up, oul, down,across, through, between,in, around,over,opposite,under,on, off
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M Toketurns to introduceyourselves ond thosewho hove alreody introducedthemselves. yourself ond soy somethingyou like. StudentA, introduce StudentB, introduceyourself,say somethingyou like qnd introduceStudentA. A ond B. StudentC, introduceyourself,soy somethingyou like ond introduce Students If someonemqkes o mistoke,the next student stortsogoin. Continue like this until there's only one studentleft who hqs not mode o mistoke.Thot personis the winner. yourselfto the closs,soying where you ore from ond whot you &" Introduceond describe like, but only using words thot begin with the some letter clsyour ncrme,e.g.I'm marvellous Maria from Mexicoand I like mountainsand mice.
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l-ETPW[ffi]Know how ip*Doesonybody in the clossknow how to chonge o plug? (Elicitvocobulory through mime ond o diogrom of a plug on the boord.) In poirs, toke turns to tell your portner how to do thesethings using Firsf, Then,After that and Finally.While you listen to your portner's explonotion, moke a note on onything he/shemisses.
e* Whot is o 'trick of the trode'? Do you know ony tricks of the trode? If so, tell the rest of the closs,e.g. Thebestway to get your windowsreallycleanis to dry them with newspaper.
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In poirs, role-ploy o leorner'sfirst driving lesson. Student A, you ore the instructor. Describeexoctly whot to do. Student B, you ore the leorner. Follow the instructions exoctly. Hereis somevocobulory to help you. (Elicitthesewordswith mimes.)
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instructions eosy to follow? Howwell did your student followyour instructions?
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organised, strong,honest, I tivated,creative, patient i inspirational, capable, responsible, flexible, hard-working, *,*J Whot other skills doesthe iob you've chosenneed? lElFffil Personal profiles Listento Whot is o personolprofile? (Answer:a descriptionof yourselfos o professionol.) onswer:o this personolprofile ond tell me whot kind of work the persondoes.(Possible for on internotionol compony.) reseorcher
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including informotion obout the job, In poirs, composeo short recruitmentodvertisement quolifications ond experiencerequired, ond conditions of work. Swop odvertisementswith you would ask about the job, e.g.the number onother poir ond write somequestions doys' holidoy you get. Swop portners with the mony of people in the department, how some poir ond role-ploy this telephonecoll. Student A, osk obout the job ond requeston opplicotion form. Student B, onswer questionsobout the job ond toke down Student As detoils. (This octivity works well as o follow-up to the Projecton the next poge.)
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(If you do not olreody know obout the students' professionsor future coreerplons, osk them to tell you the job they do, or the one they would like to do. Choosetwo or three studentswho do, or would like to do, the same kind of work ond put them togetherto preporefor o job interview for o specificposition of your choosing.They should write o list of their relevqnt skills ond strengths. The rest of the clossworks in two or three groups to write interview questionsfor this position. Applicont A is interviewedby thJfirsf group while B is interviewedby the second. Then they swop ploces. Interviewers: Who had the best quolificotionsond experience? Who wos the most reloxed ond friendly during the interview?Who getsthe job? Appliconts:How did you eoch feel obout your interview?Whot did you think obout the ottitude of the differentinterviewers? Do you think you'll get the job?
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Project @ Look in the situotions vocont section of o newspoperond find o iob odvertisement to bring to the next lesson.In closs,hove o look ot everybodyelse's odvert ond agreethe three or four most interesting ones. Work in groups, one odvert for eoch group. Agree o list of the skills ond strengthsneededfor the job ond discuss whot research you could do on the compony ond the job beforeopplying. Write o letter of opplicotion for the job. (Elicit the loyout ond conventions for this kind of letter.Decideif the letter should simply requeston opplicotion form, enclose o CV,or give odditionol informotion.) lp Write your own CV in English ond bring it to closs.Include the following information.
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@ In groups,tell eoch other some of the things you need in your personollife. Exploin why you need them. Here ore someideos. householditems,qualifications, money,love,holidays I shopping/groceries, Decidewho in your group, ond in the clossos o whole, hos the simplestneeds.
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&* In groups, broinstorm o list of professionsand correspondingobilities. Try to come up needa good needto be able to rtde camels.Climbers with some unusuol jobs, e.g. Explorers head for heights. job, !w In poirs, tell eoch other about the things you need to do/hove/befor your present orolobthotyouhodinthepost,oroneyouwOntinthefuture' 'Necessity is the mother of invention' meon? whot doesthe soying your list to onother In smoll groups,broinstorm o list of ten importont inventions.Poss write o sentence invention eoch o1 the list your group receivesond next to group. t-oiot< to people needed because invented It was wheel rn" 6xptiining wrry ii wos heeae"d, "g. loads. transPortheavY what peopleneededand-didn't need to do at thesetimes' e.9' In smoll groups,discuss peoplewio tiveaSO0 yearsago ieeded to dry a lot of their food for the winter.
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In pairs, imogine thot you ore going to toke o tenont to shqreyour house,Agreethe rules, toking into occounttheseospects.
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lEWffiu.l Health and safety In groups,write o list of rules for one of thesesituotions.(Allocoteone to eoch group.) Choosea secretory to keep o note of your ideosunder four heodings:must,mustn't,should and don't haveto. managinga restaurant, kitchen,conductinga fireworksdisplay, lookingaftera baby,going trekkingin the mountains Swop lists with onother group to seeif they've missedonything importont.
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Past obligation @ Imogine you orrive lote for on importont appointment. In poirs, think of someexcuses bosed on other obligotions, e.g. I'm sorryI'm late. Thecar brokedown and I had to take it to thegarage.(Elicitsomeof the excuses to find the most creative.) @ In smoll groups,osk ond onswerquestionsobout the rules ot schoolond ot home when you were o child. Hereore some questions to help you.
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(Write the text on the boord gopping the words in brockets.) Fill the gops in thesesentences. but I overslept' this morning, havegoneto the dentist's | (should) to call my sisterlastweek, but I was too busy. I was (supposed) your visa. Moke o list of five importont things you hove failed to do recently, e.g. Check your flcf. Work in poirs. Reodyour portner'slist ond find out his/her excusefor eoch, Clean e.g.A-youshouldhavelheckedyourvisa.B-Iknowbutlcouldn'tfindmypassport.A-You but I had too much homework. to cleanyour flaL B - Yes, wire supposed Who hod the worst excuse?
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would you? You wouldn't havechangefor the ticket machine, with that? Would you like a free croissant lt'll helpyou get to sleep. ShallI makevou some hot chocolate?
Compore your notes with o portner. Try to write the offers ond requestsfrom memory. When you've finished,I'll read them out ogoin so you con checkyour clnswers. w Think of the lost requestond offer you mode. Write them down using him / her insteod him to help me fix my bike.I offered(to make)her a cup of of the person'snome, e.g. I asked tea. After eoch one, your portner will osk you Work in poirs. Taketurns to reod your sentences. o question with who, e.g. Who did you askto helpyou fix your bike? Wul Do you mind if ...? e.g.I'm cold.- CanI wearyour coat? / CouldI Usethe following prompts to moke requests, wearyour coat?/ Doyou mind if I wearyour coat? I needto sit down' l "*'tget to sleep.l've got a headache. I can't reach.I can't l'm thirsty. My car's brokendown' I feel sick' There'sno sugar in my tea. I don't understand. i the window. / In poirs, use the some ideosto moke offers,e.9.A - I'm cold.B - I'il close window? close the me to want I close the window? ShAII / Do vou
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hosogreed Someone to look ofteryour homewhileyou'reon holidoyfor ten doys.In
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l*' Copy the toble. Work in groups ond write examples to go in the four sectionsof the toble, using theseexpressions.
youmind+ -ing. . . ? \ t Can | ...? Could| ...? Canyou ,..? Couldyou ...? Would Shall | ...? l'll ...? Giveme ...? Wouldyou like...? Doyouwant...? m e. . . Haveyou got ..,? Willyou ...? Do you mindif | ...? G i v e Request Formal
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$s'Divide your poge into three columns with these heodings: 1) They know eqch other. 2) They don't know eoch other. 3) Either. Listen to these requests ond orders. I'll reod them three times. The first time, decide which column it goes in. The second time, write it down. The third time, check whot vou hove written.
I don't supposeI couldborrowyour car for a coupleof days,could l? CouldI havechangefor C 1O? Can you changea tenner? Put your toys away at once. your musicso loud,l'll callthe police! Look,lf you don't stop playing Why don't you leaveme alone? Makeme a sandwich, willyou?
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In poirs, comporeyour sentences ond discuss whot you think the relotionshipis between the personspeokingand the personlistening.Add two more under eoch heoding. M Divide your poge into two with theseheodings:1) Informol and 2) Formal. Listen to the following diologue ond write it in the first column. (Choose a studentto reod this with you.)
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In your poirs, write onother informol diologue in the first column. Swopit with onother poir ond write o formol tronslotion of their diologue.
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Work in poirs. StudentA, you ore in StudentB's house.Ask for permissionusing May L..? or Can1 ...2StudentB, you don't wont onything touched.Refuse StudentA os politely os possibleond exploin why, e.g. A - Can I opena window?B - I'd ratheryou didn't, it's very noisyoutside. Here ore somethinos to tolk about.
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vote,smoke i hunt, drive, alcohol, getmarried, drink guns, gamble, : carry
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$p Visit q mobile phone website and look for the best deol for you. Bring the informotion yougettoclossondworkinsmollgroupstodiscussthedeols. prices ie* Visit the website of o lorge orts centre ond find out whot's on, including ticket theotre, music, see: to you wont of show kind whot decide Then shows. of ond times o exhibition, free event. In the next lesson, role-ploy o telephone cqll to find out obout show ond to book tickets.
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In pairs, Iisten to these sentencesond write them down. For eoch one, write onother sentence replocing the odjective + noun with o verb + odverb, e.g. Delio's o terrible cook Delia cooksterribly. -*****"--"--a
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Watch me ond guesswhot I om miming. Write the octionsdown, e.g. makinga sandwich. doingthe dishes, compuier, l-;,.ffi*uffi**;ffiffi;;*; j washingmy hair,eatinga hamburger, waitingfor a bus, puttingon make-uP In poirs, toke turns to mime one of the octionsfor your portner in the monner of one of usinga computer theseodverbs.Try to guessthe odverbyour portner is miming, e.g. You're nervously. nervously, confidently, rmpatiently, ! sadly,gently,shyly,madly,heroically, clumsily quickly, lovingly, carefully, seriously, quietly, slowly, happily, angrily, ;
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In poirs, motch on odjective from the first list with one from the second.Whot is the differencebetween the two lists? (Write the words from eoch box in two columns on the in the secondbox when you write them up; they oppeor the odjectives boord. Re-order order.) here in the correct
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Throw and catch in Stondin o circle.Throw this ball (o boll of poper will do) from one personto onother seconds g,oj.fiye you've it, you cotch When odverb. on out ihe circle. As you trrrow iCrrto"t is correct.If it isn't, you if your sentence The clossdecides to use the odverb in o sentence. A (throwing) - Fluently! e.g. ore out of the gome. The lost student Ieft stonding ii the winner, (ofter cotching)- He ate his (throwing) Greedily!C B B (ofter cotching) ir-iprit t fluently. etc. dinnergreedily, Frequency on the line for this line. (Write Alwaysond the percentoges some other expressions @ Suggest ond elicit the others.) Always Almostalways Very often Often Sometimes Rarely/Seldom Very rarely Almost never Never
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beginning How $a*In poirs, think of three questions to osk eoch other obout these things , Moke o note month. a twice About B often do you ...?, e.g. A - H6w often do you eat spaghetti-? (Reod these out' end' ot the closs to the bock report of who does eoch thing the most ond one') eoch discuss to ollowing the students time
cleanyour shoes,eat spicyfood, go swimming,drink coke, fly,write a letter, laugh,get a haircut,sing go to a concerVplay, argue,do the dishes, happen?(Once)every a total eclipse e.g. How often does Answer these questionsusing every, years. How often ... doesthe worldturn round? does the moon go roundthe earth? doesthe tide come in? do leap yearsoccur? is the Earthhit bY a comet? is therean ice age? does El NinohaPPen? 1
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Hi, how's it going?Look there'sa partyat Steve'splace.He's invitedsome what'sher name,Tracey. musicians round.Tom'sgoing,and hisflatmate, She'sa guitarist and she'sgot a greatvoice. lt's been ages since I went to lt's goingto be lotsof fun. He'scookinga curryand he'sgot some Steve's. beersin, but let'stake a bottle,too. There'san off licencethat'sjust openednear Tom's.lt's calledJoe'sWines.Let'smeet there at seven.OK, see vou later. Compore your text with o partner. How mony times did you write 's?There should be twenty. Decidewhether eoch 3 is o) on obbreviotion of is, b) on obbreviotion of has, 's. c) on obbreviotion of us, or d) o possessive
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curlyhair, redhair, bigteeth,longlegs, i Otr" eyes,
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s* (Write up the first sentencein this sequenceond elicit the others by osking questions with where,e.g. Where's the page?) There's a word on a page.The page is in a book.The book is on a table.The tableis The streetis in a citv ... The houseis in a street. in a room.The room is in a house. in a similor woy. In smoll groups,toke turns to odd to thesesequences There'sa worm in an apple There's a fleaon a dog ... & In poirs, write o sentencecontoining a/an and the, e.g. I had an appointmentwith the doctor.Thecar had a flat tyre.On o seporatepiece of poper, write the sentenceout agoin with gops for every word except a/an and fhe. Possyour gopped sentqnceto onother poir. you receivein any woy you ccrn,e.g. There is an appleon the Fill in the gops in the sentence
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There was an old lady I'm going to tell you o nursery rhyme obout qn old lody who swollowedsomeanimols. a fly. Why do you think she swollowed the fly? It begins Therewas an old lady who swallowed (Write the next two lines ot the bottom of the boord.) the fly. I don't know why she swallowed Perhaps she'lldie. Whot did she do next? (Elicit ideos, ond then give the next line of the rhyme: Therewas a spider.) an old lady who swallowed Why did she swollow the spider? (Elicit ideos and then odd this line above the two others ot the bottom of the boord.)
Whot did she do next? (Elicit ideos, ond then give the next line of the rhyme: Therewas a bird.) an old lady who swallowed Why did she swollow the bird? (Elicitideos,ond then continue to odd the lines of the rhyme obove the others, continuing with the some sequenceuntil the rhyme is finished, the bird to catch the spider.The rest of the sequenceis: cot, dog, goot, coq. i.e. Sheswallowed horse.At the end, osk the studentsto recite the rhyme to eoch other in poirs. Anyone who is confident con recite the whole thing for the clossfrom memory.)
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Work in four or five teoms. Eoch teom must chooseo different continent, not including Austrqlio or Antorctico. I'm going to nome some different geogrophicol feotures.Moke o note of one exomple belonging to the continent you chose,e.g.A mountainrange- TheBIue (Austrolio). Mountains river,desert,lake,islandgroup,capitalcity,mountainrange, man-madefeature mountain,sea, forest/jungle, Score o point for every correctexomple you nome. If o teom connot nome on exomple, the other teoms con get an extro point by noming one in thot continent.
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In poirs, listen to theseprompts ond ogree on explonotion using be (not) usedfo. Write it down, e.g. I'm so tired. - I'm not usedto workiig shifts.I I can't get usedto working shifts.I I don't think I'il everget usedto working shifts. Don'ttouch my dogl il Slow downl l'm afraidI've crashedyour car. to livewith, I find him difficult Theydon't likeLondon. It was so embarrassing. don't likezoos. Elephants is drunkalready. Dominique I can't drinkthis tea. This countryis too cold for me.
Comporeyour explonotionswith onother pair. Which do you like better? Activities 68 700Classroom
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to study old is writing In poirs, write o letter from o young tPg"."t who hos gone obrôad forms of be/getusedto, different Use ciry. l; fiir/h;r porents teffing the; oUoirt life-in o new I'm getting usedto coffee' the to gei used can't I but to arii^:ing iei with milk, goi used ".g.-i;i" weather' the to get used ar:ntngin the left. I'lI never of life. Write obout these osPects the weather appliances, household food, pets,traffic,language, shopping, fashion, manners,
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tea or coffee? Whichdo you Prefer, (choose two celebrities)? handsome/beautiful, you is more think who do Why? or autumn? spring do you prefer, Which or by writing? yourself by speaking to express Do you prefer WhY? catsor dogs? Doyou prefer WhY? or sunset? sunrise Do you prefer WoutOvouratherberichandugly,orpoorandgoodlooking?Why?
Chooseone eoch, ond survey the rest & In poirs, write two questionsobout preferences. of the closs.(Invite studentsto report their results')
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k" In groups of three or four, discussthese questionsobout the UK/USA'
Howmuch? thanyourcountry? or colder hotter ls the UIVUSA etc? ls it wetter/greyer, exPensive? / more ls it cheaper andthe ut</usA? yourcountry between what arethe differences in the UI(USA? than your country in arebetter things Which
& In poirs, compore two countries you know well using these ideos' mixed,green,corrupt,hot, cold, r biq, small,developed, footballcrazy,safe,rich tolerant, expensive, ; m6untainous,
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(Voriotion: Give o country'to eoch poir of students.Ask them to write o list of comporisons comporisons between thoicountry orrd th" .o.tntty they ore in now. They reodlut their and the others try to guessthe country')
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Yes, but...
is a good contqining on odjective, e.g. Live.rpool In two teoms, write ten short sentences teom hos other the in Someone footballteam. Iake turns to reod out one of your s-entences. 'Yes, Barcelona but e'g'Yes, ..." but beginning to respondimmediotely with o comporotive, is better.
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Circlecomparatives
Shout out words to go in this group. (Choose one of the following cotegories ond write the elicited words on the boord in a circle.)
countries, sports,methodsof transport i I animals, r.-_"-"_ -**_***_***i In small groups,you hove five minutes to write as mony comporisonsos you con, e.g. Dogsare moreintelligentthan cats. Reodout your sentences. Eochgroup getsone point for every grommoticolly correct comparisonthot no other group hos written. You con chollengeonother group's comporisonif it's foctuolly wrong or if it contoins o grommoticol mistoke. (Voriotion: Give o different cotegory to eoch group.)
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In poirs, comporeyour oppeoronces ond your possessions, e.g.I've got smaller hands. got moreorganised You've notes. Here ore someideqs.
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pockets, nails, more uncle, a moreinteresting a heavier bag, I I longer writing, feet,smaller hands, shorler hair, bigger darker eyes, i ! neater
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Tell me things which ore often odvertisedon TV. (Write the elicited list on the board.) In smoll groups,choeseone of thesethings ond think of a new brond. Write o rodio odvert exploining why it's better thon its competitors, e.g.For the whitestteethbuyAfterglo. It whitens your teethand leaves your breathfresherthan mountain air. It's moreeffective than aII its Ieadingcompetitors. Afterglo,for the brightest,most confidentsmile. Choose Reodout your odvert to the closs.When you're listening to the other groups' odverts,moke some notes for o comploint to the Advertising StondordsAgency, e.g. Theadvertsaysit's moreeffective than other toothpastes, but it containsmuch moresugarthan other brandsto make it tastebetter. tElFWl The sooner the better Work in poirs. I'm going to reod the beginningsof ten sentences. Quickly ogreeon ending ond write it down. You won't hove much time beforeI soy the next one. If you hoven't finished,leove it and stort the next, e.q.T - Theearlierwe leave... S - fhe sooner we'II arrive. The moreyou study ... The morehe drinks... The lessyou know ... The morewe givehim The longerwe waited The cheaper the hotel...
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Comporeyour endingswith onother poir. How mony ore similor? In poirs, write two more beginningsond possthem on to onother poir to complete.
lEffiffiflclThe sameas or different? A

Comporeyour possessions ond abilitieswith the studentssitting on either side of you using the sameas or differentfrom, e.g.My trainersare the samemakeas Luteka's. My first language is differentfrom Abida's.
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. Toke turns to osk me questionsobout the prices of thesethings in the UK/USA/Austrolio/... After eoch onswer,write o sentencecomporing the price with the price in your country, e.g. in the Australia. are almosttwiceas expensive Cigarettes
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entertainment, accommodation, cars transport, food, alcohol, cigarettes, clothes, Here qre someexpressions to help you.
not quite
half twice threetimes not nearly
as as expensive
with o portner. Comporeyour sentences as it is in my e.g.It's not nearlyas sunnyin England In poirs, write somemore comporisons, country.Thereare (morethan) twiceas many peoplein my country.
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opinions
Chooseone person @ Work in groups.I'm going to give eoch group o questionto discuss. to moke notesond onother who will use the notesto report bock to the closs.
problems mankind atthemoment? facing i- w#;ln"-o'g#, powerful inthewodd? country themost i WhyistheUSA
i English? What arethe most difficult thingsaboutlearning What are the best and worst thingsabout livingin this country?
of thesethings. @ In poirs, tell your portner obout your opinions ond experiences
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The most amazing thing The best book ...
... Thestrangest experience person Themostimportant
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I'm going to dictate one questionto eoch student.Mingle ond osk oll the other students your question.Moke o note of their onswers. Who has been in this schoolthelongest? Who drinksthe most coffee? Who has the nearestbirthdayto today? Who has got the longest eyelashes? Who comes from the biggestfamily? Who is wearingthe most expensive shoes? Who has visited the most countries? Who has the shortestsurname? i
Whospeaks the mostlanguages? Whosleeps the least? WhohasthemostCDs? Whohaseaten thing? themostunusual
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In poirs, use comporatives ond superlotivesto tell eoch other about your fovourite things, Here ore some ideos. they usuallyhavethe most exciting stories. e.g. I like crimenovelsbecause pizza,person, drink ! caf6,colour, actor,animal, ! book,song,film,spori,vegetable, -*--*-**-i !_--**,.--*
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lilffiffiM RoundBritainquiz
in I'm going to give you the onswersto o superlotive quiz obout the UK. Write them down guess the you Con pairs. in work poper. Then piece of o column orrifr" tLft frana side of o questions?Write them next to the onswers' 1 2 3 4 (BenNevis,1,343m) mountain? What is the highest person? Who is the richest fl-heDuke of Westminsler,B'2 What is the furthest country from the UK? (New Zealand) 2'3 million) What is the secondbiggestcity?(Birmingham, What is the longestriver?fihe Severn,322km) smokers?(Manchester) Whereare the heaviest
d, 312km2) Lomon Locih i;"k6? is the largest 5 Where iScottano,

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(Smith) surname? Whatis the mostcommon 244 m) (Canary Wharf, building? office Whatis thetallest peryear) passengers million 54.5 (Helthrow, airporl? Whatis the busiest 1960) since (coronation street, opera? running'soap whichis thelongest dailynewspaper? fl-heSun) Whatis the mosipopular
Compore your questionswith onother poir' In poirs, think of five questionswith superlotivesobout o country you know well. Give the questionsto onother poir to onswer. filPffi Sportingsuperlatives Theseore oll world recordsin different sports.Work in poirs ond guesswhot the sports and , e.g. 4O1- -Blo" Lara' what's recordsor". Ark o questionfor each one using superlatives cricketer? @01) Who hasscoredthe most runs in an the highest,ror" îd" by an international internationalcricketmatch?(BrianLara)' (rn"stfootballWorld Cups) f- 5 trt*:Br-'il championships) (mostWimbledon I times- MartinaNavratilova (longest gg chess match) Mashian v Stepak moves/ 24 hours I t m) (fastest 100 Monigomery Tim seconds : 9.78 : a.gSm - MikePowell(longest jumP) ', (furthest women'sshot put) 22.63 m - NatalvaLisovskaya I t go ko - Edmilson (heaviest weightlift) Dantas da Silva men'schampion) (youngest Wimbledon Becker Boris ' 17 veirs player) (tallest basketball Ali Nashnush m Suleiman Z.+b X if In poirs, write two more questionsabout the best (ond worst) in the world of sport' See anybody in the clossknows the onswers.
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soy whot Toke it in turns to nome o country ond o student. The person you nome hos to - If I go to Alyosha India,.Aly-osha' T you nome, they,ll do if they go to the country ".9. India, lil visitAolllwood.Spain,Uasia. Mosho - If I go to Spain,I'lI go walkingin the Pyrenees' Manifestoes for In groups,preporeo short policy stotementfor your (silly) politicol porfy, e'g' If youvote restaurants' in phones us,we'II ban the useof mobile
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lf it's sunny...
After eoch &- Work in groups of three or four. Toke turns to continue one of these sequences. the group should osk whot will hoppen next, e.9' sentence, A - If it's sunny,I'il go to the Park. Group - What wiIIyou do if you go to the park? B - If I go to the park, I'il play cricket. Group - What will you do if Youwin? C - If we win, we'll go to the pub. Group - What wiIIyou do if you go to the pub? !
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lf it rainstomorrow...
lf he rings...
lf we saveenough... i
the phrasesin the secondbox.) (Write thesephroseson the boord in two columns.Re-order ond write sentences, betweenthesetwo groupsof expressions, In poirs, think of connections we'IIget onewith a garden. e.g.If we movehouse,
beginning Write the whole sentence, &o' I'm going to reod the endingsfor somesentences. you'll regretit' with /f ... , e.g. ... you'll regretit. - If you don't listento my advice, "-'-**"***- l r***-**'**-'-"-.,. it'll taste better. late. we'll be l ., vou'llhurtvourself : ... there'll be trouble. i ... l'llletyou know. catcha cold. i ...Vou'lf with o partner. Compore your sentences In poirs, write five more endings.Swopthem with onother poir, write the beginningsto the Did the other poir write the onesyou receiveond hond bock the whole sentences. beginningsyou were expecting?
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@ Here is o list of six functions. (Write them on the boord.) --,--"-^.] offer,warning,threat,advice,suggestions : I precliction,
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I'm going to dictate six sentences.Write them down ond decide which function they hove. (Reod out the sentences in o different order; they oppeor in the some order os the functions.)
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for eoch function. In poirs, compore your onswers.Then write onother conditionol sentence other. Write on people with eoch moke borgoins @ In groups,think of some situotions where guesswho is groups to your for other sentences out Reod for eoch. oppropriote If . . . sentence (porent to child). speokingto whom, e.g. If you'regood,I'll buyyou an ice-cream
thetrain. we'llmiss now, lf we don'tleave i lf youwant,l'lldo thedishes. i getan electric you'll shock. thatwire, tt youtouch ! that,l'llgetangry. tt youdon'tstopdoing i whyyoudid it, he'llunderstand. i tt youexplain
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Anxiety role-plays tElffiffiffiM

Work in poirs, A ond B. StudentA is very odventurous;StudentB is very onxious. In your poirs, role-ploy o discussion betweentwo good friendsobout the situotion I give you, e.g. A - I'm going to tour the Amazon. B - What wiIIyou do if you catch malaria? A - Don't worry.If I catch malaria,I'Il go to seea local doctor. B - But what if you're in the middle of the iungle? A - If I'm in the jungle, I'Il seean AmazonianIndian doctor. B - What will happenif you get lost? A - If I get lost... whereyou willspendsix monthstaking to SouthAmerica, 1 Youare goingon holiday photographs sea including the jungles, mountains, and landscapes, of the wildlife and desert.
trlffiHffiu'lSuperstitions
Whot ore they superstitiousobout? Whot Are people in your country very superstitious? obout you? for someof thesewords,e.g.If you breaka miror, you'Il have In poirs, write superstitions years' bad luck.Moke them up if you don't know ony. seven mirror,black cat, ladder,birthdaycake candles,itchy ear,itchy hand, the weather the numberthifteen, salt,sneezing, spider, Whot other foin with onother poir to moke smoll groups.Comporeyour superstitions. superstitionsccln you think ofi
What if ... IEEffiffiffiffi you could meet onyone you wonted, olive or deod,who would it be?Why? @ Supposing Whot would you soy to him/her? If you could live in onother ploce ond time in history,whot would it be? Choose the best from &*,In smoll groups,broinstorm someendingsfor thesesentences. your group ond write the whole sentence down. (Ask the groupsto reod out their ideos ond invite the clossto choosetheir fovourites.) I i j I : lf the worldwas flat .., ._ lf we wereall clones... lf you had two heads.,, ... lf time travelwas possible lf nobodv knew how to read lf animals couldspeak.,. lf cows couldfly .., lf moneygrew on trees... lf therewas no money... lf everyone was telepathic
&* If I gove you one million euros,whot would you do with it? Write o list of five things. Reodout your list. Who doesthe clossthink should get the money?
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s* Work in poirs. Listento thesesituotionsond write whot would hoppen if the situotion - If it wasn'training,we'd wos different,e.g. It's roining; we'll hove to cancelthe borbecue. If it wassunny,we'd havea barbecue. havea barbecue.
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i i I don't know the answerso I can't tellyou. i He oets headaches becausehe works so hard. ; haveenoughspacefor a piano. I We-Oon't i : i Sfre'sill.She can't cometo the party. iLife,seasybecausewebothhavewe||-paidjobs. i He'snot tallenoughto be a policeman. ; I can't giveyou a lift becauseI haven'tgot a car. i they don't likeher. l She'sso rude it's not surprising &* In poirs, tell your portner obout things in your life you would chonge if you hod the I'd buy a car and do moretravelling.If I didn't haveto opportunity, e.g. If I had moremoney, and get fit, I'd do moreexercise work in the evenings,
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improvements In smoll groups,broinstorm somecurrent world news storiesond suggest wouldbe a using the secondconditionol, e.g.If we all votedhim out of office,the country saferplace.
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I can't get to sleepat night. I keep dropping things. reallyuntidy. My flatmate's
jobs. l'm fed up doingtemporary My dog keepsbitingpeople. Our houseis cold and damp. is so hard! spelling English Mv hairwon't stav flat.
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=lF-E*$*ffi twish and tf onty with I wish / If only in two wctys, one with o post tenseond these sentences In poirs,rewrite
the other with would, e.g. It's roining. - 1) I wish / If only it wasn't raining. 2) would stop raining.
songagain. l've had a nastycold allweek. thatawful She's singing again. He'slatefor the meeting You're unemployed. They neverwrite to us. It'scoldoutside.
The liftis stillnot working. =-{ijffil The streetshereare filthy.
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A better place to live beginning I wish... obout the town or city where you live in In poirs, write five sentences ran aII through the night so I didn't order to moke it o better ploce to live, e.g. I wish the buses haveto take a taxi home. ond decidewhich ore the best five of your your sentences foin with onother poir. Discuss ideosfrom your combinedlists.Then join with onother group of four studentsand choose the best five ideasogoin. Choosesomeonefrom your group to write your ideosup on the boord. As o clqss,decideon the best five sentences. (Variotion:This octivity olso works well with ideosfor improving the school.)
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The unreal past ond decidewhether the peoplein eoch situotion In poirs, look ot the following sentences feel hoppy obout whot hoppened,unhoppy obout it, or just neutrol, e.9. Roy went to the porty. - If Rayhadn't gone to the party, he wouldn't havemet Maggie(hoppy, becousehe met her). - If he hadn't gone to the party, he wouldhavefelt betterthe next morning (unhoppy, becouse he went to the porty ond now he is tired / hos o hangover). - If Rayhadn't gone to the party, he'd havegone clubbinginstead(neutrol, becousehe'd hove spentthe night doncing onywoy).
Terry moved to NewYork. hiscar. James crashed Sonya wentto Japan.
Rogerdidn'tpassthe exam. i*1?9,3_t3'_9:3::lI=)
He didn'tknow she was coming. Veralost her lotteryticket. lrenedidn't havea sparekey. Tracvcouldn'tsellher house.
Imogine you were the personin someof the situotions.Work with o portner ond write some sentences to expressregret. IJseIf only/ I wish and should(not) havedone,e.g.If only / I wishI hadn't gone to the party.I shouldn'thavedrunk so much.
Mountain rescue
(Write up the sentences below in rondom order on the boord.) Thesesituotionsore oll connected to the some odventure.Work in groupsond put them in order.Imogine you for eoch situation, one using If only/ were stuck on the mountoin. Write two sentences I wish ... ond one tsing should(not) havedone,e.g. I wish/ If only we hadn't got lost. Weshouldhavestayedat home.Weshouldn'thavebeenso careless.
Whot order did your group decideon? Tolk togetherond decidewhot hoppenednext. Did everyonesurvive?
tETFlHffi Speculation
obout how things might hove been w" In pairs, tolk obout your childhood ond speculote job. If we had livedin I couldhavegot a better different,e.g. If I hadworkedharderat schootr, my safetyso much. worried about the countryinsteadof a big city, my parentswouldn't have how they might have Bx. In poirs, think obout somerecenteventsin the news.Discuss it wouldn't havefallen down in the been different, e.g. If they had built the bridgeproperly, had beenfair, Brazilwould havewon the football match. earthauake. If the referee
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And, but and because e'9' using and, but and because, In poirs, toke turns to continue thesesentences, I'm tired ... A - I'm tired and I'm going to bed. B - I'm tired, but I've got to finish this essay' I've beenup aII night studying' A - I'm tired because The coffeeis good Theygot lost ... My teacheris nice
... Susan He married ... English l'm learning ... car a boughi Glenda
is sick... Simon ... wentto lndia They .., I wentto theshoP
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Expanding sentences ond so on the boord.) I'm going t9 give you o short sentence.In (write and, but, because the closs, i"-, iup"it it ond odd one of these conjunctions ona o clouse. Continue oround of the out you ore sentence, the you forget If turn. eoch with exponding the sentence getstoo long, stort o new one') gome. (When the sentence I-Ihadadog. A - I had a dog, but he died. B - I had a dog, but he died,so I boughta cat' the company. I needed C - I had a dig, but he died, so I boughta cat because
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Despite, although and however *4"Look ot this exomple. (Write it on the boord') Bill is poor but he's heolthY. - Despitehispoverty,BilI is healthy. - Although he'spoor, BiIl is healthY. - BiIIis poor.However, he'shealthy. in the somewoy' sentences these poirs, chonge ln Arnold is strongbut gentle. but useless. It's exoensive It's rainingbut it's not cold. It's cold but we haveto go. They'rerich but unhaPPY. old but she'sagile. Grannv's
thot are true for you. Tell your portner' Think of five similor sentences *" In noirs, finish thesesentences.
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Despitethe speed we were driving... Desoitethe fact that I am a singleparent . ' ' his good looks... Despite we face .'. the Despite Problems
exhausted'.. Despitebeingcompletely her cold ... Desoite .'. ltalian not sPeaking Despite ..' ten children having Despite
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(Do this octivity in open closs.Choosestudentsot rondom ond osk them to odd to the e'9' You'd better not or yo, reod them out, beginning with or (else), iollowing sentJnces drive') to able be won't you drink onymore ... or (else)
Don'ttouchthatwire. studyharder. Youshould to sendit todaY' Don'tforget aboutthe exam' Stopthinking
I haveto havea'showerevery Listento me. You'd betterget some sleep. I'd betterpay thesebills.
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thot ore true for you, e.g. Whenit F* Look ot this potteln ond write some more sentences you know' let I'II phones, he as raining, I'II go out' As soon stops
wnen as soonas ***-**" future + Present ;;til-before

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using goingto for plons' e'9' A's &* In poirs, tell eoch other obout your own expectotions and get a goodiob' go backhome going to good enough,'I'm is ,oon i, my English I'Il go to college'\hey t exams pass my I as In poirs, continue this sequenc"l 9'9. 4L s.oon runs out "' Tty to money until travelling keep tlt I'm going to giotraveiltinlg. Ieaiecoilege ryy life, o lucky one, etc' odventurous extremely intoan iiteresting,-e.g. it 96 ro-."*ftire -ot "
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(Answers: hoPPY, #* (Draw these foces on the boord.) How do these people Iook? ongrY') mischievous, unhoPPY,
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She'sgot a terriblehangover' She'sjust fallenover in the street. They'reabout to get married. to the manager' She'sgoingto complain He'sjust seena ghost.
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for eoch of thesethings to describe & In two groups, write three or four short sentences It feelssticky. how they look, toste, smell, feel or sound, e.g. It tastessweet. hair, sandpaper, bagpipes cashmere, curry gadic,roses,raw fish,antiques, if necessory.) (Givesomehelp by writing up someadjectives sour,cold, silly,hard, bitter,tasty,spicy,sweet,smooth,soft, fresh,nice, loud exciting, hot, cute,beautiful, oily,dusty,out of tune,disgusting, Toke turns to reod out o description for the other group to guesswhot you ore describing. $b. Work on your own. Write o description of two things ond seeif the closscon guess whot they ore. l-ElFlW But in fact ... Write them down and odd o beginning, I'm going to dictote the endingsof somesentences. quite young . - He looksold, but in fact foct he's in ... but feel, e.g. /ook, seem, taste or using he'squiteyoung. but in fact it's good for you. but in fact he's a big softy really, normal. but in fact my temperature's but in fact cats love it. but in fact it tastesOK. dangerous. but in fact it's extremely but in fact he'souitenice. but in fact she'snot reallv. ... but in fact he lookscdm and relaxed. ... but in fact it reallygoes fast.
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Realia for your portnerto to mokesentences in the clossroom In poirs,usethe thingsond colours A- Pens. areblack. areblue;those green. B -Files.A-These guess, thatis e.g.A - Thisisred; (Writethesequestion promptson the boord.)Toketurns to point to onotherstudent's questions. possessions ond oskme oneof these
Whoseis this ...? Whosearethese...? Whoseis that ...? Whoseare those...? i nome. Thot personshould correctme, ond then ask the next I will soy the wrong person's question. (You moy wont to write the following exomple on the boord.) Pedro- Whoseis this pen? T - It's lulia's. fulio - No, that's not my pen. Thisis my pen. Whoseare thoseshoes? - They're I Ronaldo's. 'Ronoldo - No, thosearen't my shoes. are my shoes'Whoseis this file? These
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thot I'm thinking of. Point ond ask me questions, Try to find the objectin the clossroom get closerto it, I'll say'hotter' ond os e.g.Is if thisbookT Is it that chair?As your guesses they get further away, l'll soy 'colder'. Play the some gome in poirs, toking turns to osk the questions.
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M Whot methods of predicting the future do you know of.) Do you think there is ony truth in What wos the prediction ony of thesemethods?Hove you ever hod your future predicted? ond did it come true? &e" Whot ore the signsof the zodioc?(Write them on the boord. Seepoge L47.)Form poirs or smoll groupsoccordingto your stor signs.(Somestudentswill hove to work on their o good one for your sign ond o bod one for the sign thot own.) Write two horoscopes: comesofter yours. Include thesesubjects.
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1 Lifeline- lf this is long and thick,you will havea long,healthy you willsuffer life.lf it's broken, an illness. you are.The longerand thicker 2 Headline- Thisshowshow clever you are. it is, the moreintelligent how luckyyota vagueline.lt indicates 3 Fateline- This is usually will be, and how healthy. it meansyou will 4 Hearl" line- lf this is made up of a lot of ltnes, have lots of relationshios. - Thisshowshow manvchildren 5 Numberof children vou can expect to have.
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b Agree o list of ten mojor chongesthot you think will toke place during the next hundred yeors.Include thesethings.
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Europe, ecology : economics, technology, war and peace,culture, "'*; $r"In poirs, tell eoch other obout your hopesond plons for the future, including marrioge, (Write them on the boord.) ombitions, home, trovel ond work. Usetheseexpressions.
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decisions Spontaneous Elffiffiffitul

s- We're going to hove o clossporty next week. Whot will you bring or do? (This works best if you reolly ore hoving a party, but on imoginory one will do. Loter in the lesson, osk the studentsto remind you of whot they ate going to bring or do.) I'll tell you whot one of them soys; @ Imagine two friends ore hoving o conversotion. e.g. T - My car won't start.S - 1'llgiveyou a lift. suggest o helpful response,
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Sorry,l'm too busy to chat at the moment. Ouch!I'vecut mvself. ^ Don't forget it's Mum's birthdaynext week. | askedyou to tidy the flat. | thinkthe baby'scrying.
That'sthe doorbell. Here's 50. just collapsed. Quick!Someone's The photocopier's brokendown. I need a hand with this shelf.
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In poirs, osk ond onswerquestionsobout whot you'll be doing of thesetimes, e.g. B - I'U be relaxingat home. A - What will you be doing (this time) tomorrow? { ttristime tomorrow,this time next week, this time next month, ; thistime nextyear,in ten years'time,when I see you again
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,twIn groups of three or four, discussthe chongesyou expect by the end of the twenty-first will century. Appoint o secretoryond write o short porogroph obout eoch one, e.g. Scientists havediscovered a new way to travel. Here ore someverbsto help you. (Write them on the boord.)
learn I invent, OuifO, i- d"""t"p,db";"*, become,

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Comporeyour ideoswith onother group. Discuss ;gr," Whot do you think you will hove leornt by the end of the lesson/week/term? this with your portner, with referenceto the coursebook ond/or your copy of the syllobus. In the some poirs, discusswhot you think you will hove ochieved in five/ten/twenty yeors.
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Likesand dislikes
M In poirs, find out obout your portner's likes ond dislikes, e.g. A - What do you like B - No.I hatedoing A-Doyoulike doingthedishes? doinginthe evening?B-llike cooking. the dishes. Usethesewords to help you. talk/friends I read/book,do/weekend, watch/TV,play/sport, { do/evening,eaVbreakfast, Tell me o few of the things you found out obout your portner. obout yourself using o gerund. Choosefrom omong $ia. On your own, write five sentences theseodjectives,e.g. Dancingmakesme feelhappy. " . tired, ' excited, p roud,happy,insecure, guifty, anory l relaxed, embarrassed, sick,dizzy, i sad,
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My opinion f-ElffiltrHful
with Usetheseodjectives give eoch teom three odjectives. @ Work in three teoms.I'11 e.9. stupid - Drinkdrivingis stupid. o gerund to write sentences,
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The rest of the closswill guesswhot gerund you hove written. Readout your odjectives. morethan 40 hours w" In poirs, write down four opinions using o gerund, e.g. Working a weekshouldbe illegal. Chooseone of the opinions eoch ond do o surveyof the clossto find out how mony studentscrqree.
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@ Write sentences which ore true for you, using theseverbs,ond gerunds,e.g. I'm going to keeptrying until I passthe FCEexam.
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giveup? youfeelyoushould l. th"r" anyactivity i Who? else? someone being Doyoueverimagtne i doing? do youmiss activity Wfrat childhood doing? activity do youenjoy Whatunusual youcan'tstandotherpeople doing? Wnataretwo things youalways of doing? dreamt Whathave
iiwWork in smoll groupsond listen to theseprompts.Eochmember of the group should repeot the prompt ond finish the sentencetruthfully. Make o note of the most interesting thinkingof goingto Chinanextyear. e.g.Pavel's things you Ieorn obout your colleaguesr -**] l'm nnnd ai I often dreamabout .,. l get fed up with ... Sometrmes l'm keenon ... i t l ' mt h i n k i no gf . . .
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** In smoll groups,think of unusuol usesfor o normal object.Write down ten usesond put them in order with the least likely first ond the most likely lost. I'll osk you to reod out the the object,e.9. (A usesone ot o time. After eoch use,the rest of the classwill try to guess shoe) /f can be usedfor storingpasta.
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Plans
P' Moke o note of whot clre you going to do ot these times.
next week, next year afterclass,tonight,tomorrow,on Saturday, Mingle, ond find someonewho is going to do someof the somethings os you, e.9.Maria (Elicit some responses.) and I are both going iceskatingon Saturday' s*-On your own, think of on octivity thot people often do ot the weekend.Tell me what it is. (If someonerepeotson octivity thot onother student hos olreody soid, tell them they have to think of onother one ond come bock to them when they've done so.) Mingle ond find out how mony studentsin the clossore 9oin9 to do the thing you thought of' $e* Do you moke New Yeor'sresolutions?Tell us o few typical resolutions people moke. In poirs, imogine it is New Yeor'sEve.Write down three resolutions for somebodyfomous, I'm going to get a betterlawyer. e.g-. I'm going to tell fewerliesto the newspapers. poir. Con they guessthe fomous person? with onother Comporeyour resolutions
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M Wotch me ond guesswhot I'm going to do. (Mime preporotionsfor theseactivities.)
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whot you're going to do. In smoll groups,think of somesimilor mimes for the classto guess whot I'm going to do. me exoctly ond tell &* Work in two teams. Listento thesesentences point. gets o If you're right, your teom l've put on my coat and hat. (l'm goingto go for a walk.) (l'm goingto ignoreit.) The phoneis ringing. (l'm goingto makea cake.) l've got the ingredients. (l'm goingto catch a train') l've boughtthe tickets. (l'm goingto a funeral.) l've boughtflowers. It'slateand I'm tired.(l'm goingto ask you to leave.) l've got the tools.(l'm goingto builda shed.) There's a bottleof wine on the table.(l'm goingto open it.) (l'm goingto buy a dishwasher.) fullof dilty dishes. The kitchen's going (l'm to havea cup of coffee.) l'm absolutely exhausted. (l'm goingto liedown.) l've got a headache. in.) (l'm goingto bringthe laundry It'sraining.
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Imogine you ore the leoder of o newly electedgovernment.You hove just finished o cobinet meeting ond ore presentingyour policiesto porlioment, e.g. Wearegoing to tax the rich.Work togetherin groups ond write your policies. (Voriotion: Get different groups to representdifferent politicol porties ond to heckle eoch going to, e.g. other's presentations.This is olso o good opportunity to proctice was/were Butyou saidyou weregoing to cut taxes!)
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havegot and thesewords' e'9' @ In poirs, osk ond onswerquestions:using A - HaveYougot anYCDs? I have. B - Yes, / No,I haven't. A - What CDshaveYougot? B - I'vegot ... *".*--**-****-'j
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(Allocateone thing to eoch studentto mingle quolificotions,Pets,etc.) youl househos got, e'g' My place F* In poirs, tell eoch other obout the rooms ond feotures hasgotalarge,sunnykitchen.Dothesomeforyourcountrye.g.Mycountryhasgotsomeof the inostbeiutifuI mountainsin the world' Have/Get something done you've hod done recently'Usethese &'' In smoll groups,tell eoch other obout somethings a tooth takenout. words, e'9' dentist _ I went to the dentistlastweekto have/get
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Toketurns to osk and onswer &* work in poirs. I',m 9oin9 to soy the nomes of someploces' -aanl<.A-Why didyougo tothebank?B- Iwentthere g'oZ, w;;;il;;; the questior{ ".;'.i to casha cheque.
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write them down ond odd on @ I'm going to dictote the beginning of ten sentences.
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*" In pairs, think of reosonsfor doing thesethings, e.g. write - Wewrite to teII one another our news, study,drink coffee,run, think, breathe,cook, sleep,work, go to the gym, sigh,havechildren, learnEnglish, eat, playthe lotteryhaveshowers @ In poirs, think of three octivities. Write o sentenceobout eoch one exploining why you do it. Reod out the reoson for the clossto guessthe octivity, e.g. I do this to relax after a hard day at the office(hove o both).
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** In poirs, write sentences, e.g. I wantyou to speakmorequietly. want(s) would like need(s) don't want
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(Afterwords, quietly.) to speakmore elicit somereports,e.g.I asked/toldTomas @ In poirs, osk ond onswerquestionsobout the lost time you did thesethings. Usethe pottern verb + infinitive, e.g. I promisedto phonemy brothermoreoften. agree,offer,decide,help, refuse,learn,promise,manage,hope,fa1
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Likeand would like

&" In poirs, toke it in turns to offer help with theseproblems, e.g. A * I'm thirsty.B - Would you like a drink?
My bagsareheavy. It'scold.l'm lost,Mytea'scold.l'm hungry. I can'tseeproperly. Thisis too spicy, too muchto do. I'vegot a headache. I'm latefor work.There's
Write them under two headings:Doyou like...? & I'm going to reod out someexpressions. you like...? and Would a cup of tea, tea, speaking English, to speakEnglish, cats,a cat, him, him to help, goingto the cinema, Madonna, carrots, some morecarrots, to meet Madonna, to go to the cinema, to be a student, flying, to fly there beinga student, In poirs, osk ond onswersimilar questions, e.g. you A Do like cats? B-Yes,Ido. A - Wouldyou like one of our kittens? B - No thanks.
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EWffifq what's it like?

@Inpairs,oskqndOnswerquestionsoboutocountryorcityyouknowwell,e.g. A - What are the trains like? fast and efficient' B - TheY're A - What'sthe coffeelike? B - If's strong. Here ore sometoPicsto helP You' *******-*-:
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up to one of these similes' (Allocote one In smoll groups, think of o short onecdote leoding While they ore ro"Jomly chosen, without the-other groups heoring' to eoch grffi ond see if they class thb to your Lnec-dote working, wriie the similes on th; bo;rd') Reod con guess which simile completes it'
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likea fishout of water' l^felt i likesonI suppose' 1 oh well- likefather, I ffe was likea bullin a chinashop'
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Like and as if Work in smoll groups. Usetheseprompts to write two sentences for eoch, one with like and one with as if, e.g. He looks ... - 1) HeTooks likesomeone I used to know.zj ie looks as if he hasn't sleptfor a week. Youlook ... My headfeels... This coffeetastes ... Thefilmsounds... His hairlooked... It feels,.. Herflat looked... Itsounds ... Thatman looks... The town seemed
Thefood tasted... Kevin's car sounds
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processes
S- Listento thesequestionsond note down the key words. In poirs, ctnswerthe questions obout o country you know well. What raw materials are produced? What is manufactured? What alcoholis made? What is donewith the rubbish?
Whichsports are played? How is electricity generated?
Whatis exported and imported? i Howarepoliticians elected? i
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In- groups, choose poir of words ond list the stogesof the process thot mokes one into the -o other, e'9' cocoo/chocolate- Thecacao seeds or" {irk d and dried. The seedi are shippedto the factory'At the After roastiig, the seeds are crushed.The pieces factory,theyare roasted. are ground into a fine paste.Cocoabutter and sugarari'added. The,"t"tiiig ;iiire is ground until it's smooth.Thechocolate is pouredinto mouids.These are chilled to geate chocolate. b Tell me how you were processed when you come to enrol of this school,e.g.I was directedto reception where1wasgiven a fonn to fiII in. Then...
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In two groups, write sentences in the possivefor the following, then three other sentences obout fomous people. when you hov-efinished, test the othei'group ti wasdiscovered , by Marie Curie(radiiooctivity). ".j. Don Quixote,psychoanalysis, E= penicillin, Das Kapital,gravity, the
What happened?
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fETPffiffil Newspaper headlines (Allocotea Work in smoll groups.Write thesenewspoperheodlinesos fulI sentences. bulletin, e.9. complete_news moke o to stories group.) Continuelhe t"o eoih few heodlines in the city centre - Massive of crude oil werediscovered reserves Oil discoveredin city c-entre for a newofficeblock... yesterday when buildersstarteddigging the foundations bannedin class { VoOites gid saved Trapped I i Man abductedby aliens :_*-*****.* Whaleseenin Thames Titanicto be raised i 1
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to drive Dogtaught - at last beaten Aussies Curefor cancer
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Modernization po. Imogine you orrive bock in your home town ofter some time owoy ond you discover thot Work in smoll groups ond write possive the locil governmenthos modb o lot of chonges. has been and cinemacomplex new shopping brand A e.g. chonges, these to describe sentences and the river is being havebeendemolished ,qlt the factories built on the siteof the old skating lint<. tourists. cleanedup to encourage (This octivity is olso good for the post perfect, if the return home wos in the post, e.9. Thelast had beenmade "') time I went back to my city a lot of changes you live in, e.9. pa'In groups,discuss someof the chongesthot should be mode to the orecr shouldbe corner on the building That old zone. pedestrian a into made be Themain road should pulled down. some chongesyou think should be mode to this schoolond/or In your groups,discuss clossroom.
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&- In groups,broinstorm somevery unlikely octivities,write them on smoll piecesof poper ond collectthem into o pile, foce down. Swoppiles with another group' (If ony group is hoving difficulty coming up with ideos, odd o few of theseto their pile.) -:*****-*: r*-****-*** 1 jumpino' bungee ltfe,snakecharming, a largefish,savingsomeone's i catching a cow, ciarninglocks, ; a bank,ridirig acrossthe ocean,robbing sailing i hitch-hiking,
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Toke turns to pick o piece of paper from the pile, ond exploin to the group thot you were doing the octivlty on tfre pieCeof poper at 7a.m. yesterdoy.Answer their questions,e.9. moming,I was flying in a balloon' A - Af 7 a.m.yesterday B Why wereYou flYinga balloon? I was doing a scientificexperiment' A - Because C - Ah, and who wassteeringit? A - Oh, therewasa Pilot ... Activities 88 700Classroom
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Setting the scene Write o few more sentences to set the scene, e.g. s* Here ore the first lines of five stories. was blowingoff the lake.lohn wassitting on the jetty Thebirdsweresingingand a lovelybreeze fishing.He wasthinkingabout ...
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In smoll groups,reod eoch other'sideos.Choosethe best one and developthe story further. Delegoteone personto do the writing. Choosesomeoneto reod the story out to the rest of the closs. *w In poirs, discuss whot wos hoppening when ...
youcameintoclass. youarrived at school. youlastswitched on theW.
...you last went into work. got home yesterday. ...you out this morning, . . . y o went u
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(Choose two Lost night ot obout 7.45 p.m. there wos o murder. Two of you crresuspects. students.) Go outsidethe clossroomond ogreethe detoilsof everythingyou did yesterdoy eveningfrom 7.75to 8.15p.m. The rest of the closs,you ore investigotors.Work in two groups ond prepore o list of questionsobout whot the suspects were doing at 7.45 p.m. Try to think of every detoil. For exomple, if they went to o restouront, where did they sit, whot did they tolk obout, whot wos the woitressweoring? When you hove finished,swcrp suspects ond Eochgroup, interrogoteone of the suspects. you notice between repeotyour questionsto the other one. Moke o note of ony differences the two stories.At the end report bock to the closs.Whot differencesdid you find? Are they guilty or not guilty?
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Newspaper headlines obout theseheodlines.Include informotion obout Work in poirs. Write o few sentences whot wos hoppening when the event took place,e.g. Hikersstrondedin snowstorm.yesterday, after a freak A searchand rescue team took nine hoursto find a Frenchcouple snowstorm hit the Pyrenees. Anton and Agathe Duvalwerehiking on the highestpeak when the blizzard struck...
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MP collaoses at conference Lightsgo out at openingceremony Man eatenby pet alligator Near miss at airoort
Robbers raid caught Ouring jam Roadragein motorway Jogger mauled by dog Shopper seesElvis
In your poirs, write o heodline of your own, if possibleobout o story in the news ot the moment. Poss it to the next poir ond seeif you can expond on the heodline thot is possed to you. I'll collectthem in ond reod them out ctso newsbulletin.
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Work in tvvogroups. Write fifteen nouns on seporotepiecesof poper. Put them foce down in the middle of the other group. Toketurns to chooseo pieceof poper ond use the word to moke o sentence about what you were doing when somethingelsehoppened.Answera questionfrom the group obout whot you did next, e.g.TV. A - I was watchingW when the phonerang. B - What did you do when the phonerang? A - Whenthe phonerang, I answered it.
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Look ot the lifeline. In poirs, write o few sentences with while and when makinq up ony detoils os necessorye.g. While he was living in Macau,he had an operationfor ..., When his parentsdivorced, he movedto Englandwith his ... because ... .
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Returned to London 1999 Firsthit record 2000. Bought a mansron 2002.
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Yesterday morningat 8,30 therewas an accidentbetweena bicycleand a lorryat the junciionof GreenLanesand SevenSistersRoad, lt was raining, but visibility was good.The lorrywas travelling up GreenLanes and the cyclistwas travellrng west. Neitherthe lorrydrivernor the cyclist was injured, but the bicyclewas a mangledwreck.The driverand the cyclist both haveto make a reportto the police,which will be used in an insurance claim.They blameeach other.Thereare some independent witnesses.
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Work in poirs. |oin o sentencefrom the first column with one from the secondto moke had left, when,e.g. The guestsleft. We tidied up. - Whentheguests :using longer sdntences, in the secondbox when you write them up; they ihe sentences we tidiedup. (Re-order oppeor in the correctorder here.) "*_-**: ! We went out. i I i I tentit to Tom. ] They had a drink. ! I , trey went downstairs. fellasleep. Thebaby I X He tett better, hada shower. Oliver She asked{or some coffee. ! herpizza. Rachael finished
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you you receiveond possthem back. Add onother clouseto the sentences for the sentences the train got to the stotion When we finolly e.g. / next, hoppened receiveto exploin whot had alreadyIeft / so we decidedto go by coach. Readout the first two ports ond seeif onyone in closscon guesswhot hoppenednext' Prior events Write them down. In smoll group!, moke up onswers I'm going to osk you ten questions. he had recentlybeenpromoted. for them, e.g. T - Why wai Danielso happy?S - Because (Choose groupsto reod out their onswersto the clossof rondom ond seeif onyone con guessthe question.)
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new ond hod o lot of new On your own, think bock to o time when you went somewhere - moussaka. '9. Tell us obout your experiences, Moke somenotes,e.g. Greece experiences. (After o few sentences in open class,let beforeI went to Greece. I iad nevereaten moussaka togetherin pairs or smoll groups.) studentscontinue exchonging experiences
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|rFffiryffig Preparations and changes

$s" Work in smoll groups.Reodthesesituotionsond think of woys to continue the norrotive. Chooseo secretory to write your ideosdown, e.g,When I visited my family, everythingwos different ... My mum had thrownout the furniturein the sittingroom.Shi had replaced the carpetwith marbleeffectlino. She had painted the walls blue and 6rown.Thekitchen was a disaster.
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1 Josephine was aboutto arrive for dinner, Evefihingwas ready... 2 We were readyfor our holiday ... 3 The Robertsons were comingto view the house,but it was still in a dreadfulmess from the party... 4 She wondered if all the preparations for the weddingwere in place... 5 Whenthe ship arrived back in porl,the wholetown was waiting for them ... 6 He seemedquitecomfortable when we discovered him on the desertisland... 7 By the time the cavalryarrivedto savethe town, it was too late ... B He had arrivedin the future,but he didn't know exacflywhat year.certainly, the world lookedverydifferent ..,
F* On your own, write o few sentencesobout o ploce or person you visited ofter o long time. Describe whot changes hod hoppened, e.g. When I visitedmy old school they had built a new science block. The English teacher had taken over as headmaster. In smoll groups, osk ond onswer questions obout the chonges you wrote obout. (Ask the students to put oway their writing so thot they ore speaking rather than reoding.)
l-ElF$fffi Explanations In poirs, irnogine you sow your portner doing somethinginterestingyesterdoy. Toketurns to ask ond onswerquestionsto find out more, e.g. A - I sawyou yesterday afternoon.Why wereyou staggering? B - I wasstaggering because I had justwalkedinto a lamp post and had concussion.
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Alphabet game In groupsof three or four, take turns to use the post simple in o sentence. The first letter of the verbsmust follow the sequence of the olphobet. If you con't think of one, you ore out of the gome. The next student continueswith the next letter,e.g. A - He askedme my nome.B - I bought a hat. C - I came here last month. (Voriotion:For higher levels,require thot the sentences form o single narrotive.)
FffiIffiflIul Yesterday
Think of somethingyou did yesterdoyond the time you did it, e.g. Breakfast - 10 a.m. Go round the clossond find someonewho did the something os you ot opproximotely the sometime, e.g. A - What time did you havebreakfast yesterday? B - I had breakfast at about9.30.
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Askme somequestions oboutwhot I did usingthese time expressions, e.g.S- Whatdidyou
do last night? I - I went home and had dinner. I watched the news and ...
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(Write up one of your onswersand odd sequence morkers,e.g.T - First I wenthomeand had a dinner.Then I watched the newsand after that L.. .) In poirs, osk ond onswerquestionsin the sqme woy. Give o sequence of of leost three things. (When everybodyhos finished,osk somestudentsto report bock to the clossobout their partners.)
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Story chain Toketurns to repeotwhot hoppenedyesterdoy,ond odd somethingnew, including o verb. If you forget the sequence, you ore out of the gome, e.g. T - Yesterday I found a 10 note in my pocket. A * Yesterday I founda10 notein my pocket and I boughta sandwich. B - Yesterday I found a 10 note in my pocketand I boughta sandwich. I ate it. C-YesterdaylfoundaL0noteinmypocketandlboughtasandwich.Iateit,andthen I caughta train to Oxford. (Restort the octivity when the sequence getstoo long.) (Voriotion:Restrict the octivity to irregulor verbs.For higher levels,osk studentsto choose their verbsbeforethe gome begins.)
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I'm going to whisper o sentence to someone. This student has to whisper the some sentence to the personnext in line. The lost studentwill soy the sentence oloud to the closs ond I'll write it on the boord. I'll then tell you the sentence we stortedwith. (Thisworks bestif the studentsare sitting or stonding in o circle.)
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Write your own sentence, including ot leost two irregulor posts.Sit in o circle ond send your messages round the clossin the some direction.Write down the sentence os it gets back to you. Reodit out ond reod out the originol sentence. How mony differences ore there betweenthe two sentences?
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Work in smoll groups. Toke turns to tell the group whot you did yesterdoy.The group will you! Change your lost with / don't believe interrupt you oher every two or three sentences ond continue the story e.9. sentence ... A - I got up at 7.30 and had a shower you! Group - I don't believe I readthepaperand ... ThenI wentout for breakfast. A- I-got up at 7.30 andhad a cigarette. you! Group I don't believe A - I read my lettersand then I caught the bus to work.I arrivedat 9 a.m. ... ::
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obout the lost time you did thesethings, e.9. &" Work in pairs. Ask each other questions The last time I went to the cinemawas tvvoweeks B go cinema? you to the last A Whendid ago.I saw... {-:'-**}eaIanegg,takeexercise,Shakehands,trave|byboat,haveaco|d, feelsad, wear a suit,havea dance,send an e-mail, . cook a meal,laugh, tella lie,stayup all night ! cieanthe windows, Ot*k sotet'hing"valuable, i ?"**."*.*,-*-.beginning What wasthe lastthingyou...2 After eoch s. In poirs, osk ond onswerquestions What was the last thing you sold?B - An old camera. A question, e.g. onswer,osk onother A - How much did vou seIIit for?B - I sold it for e 25.
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Work in two teoms. Write twenty infinitive verbs on piecesof poper. Put them foce down in o pile in the middle of the other teom. Toke turns to pick up o verb ond moke o sentence with it, beginning Thefirsttime I ... or Thelast time L.. is correct,your teom keepsthe verb. If the other team spotso mistoke ond If your sentence you, they get the verb. The winning teom is the one with the most verbs. challenges
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She readsthe letter.She throws it in the bin. The sharkappears.They panic. He seesa mouse. He looksin the cuoboard. The mousesees him. lt runs away. The bellrings,Theyrun out intothe playground. startschoking. They try my curry.Everyone The rainstops. We go out to playfrisbee. I get home. I switch on the radio.
Whensheheard the baby cry,shewent to feedhim. obout things you hove done in the lost few On your own, write o few poirs of sentences with o portner. foin the ones you receive in the some doys. Swop your poirs of sentences woy ond possthem bock.
|oin eoch poir of sentencesto moke one sentence in the post, beginning with when, e.g.
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pronoun insteod of the and shout out onotheSusing o possessive Listento thesesentences possessive odjective,e.g.It's my book.- Thebookis mine.
It'smy pen. It'sherjumper. That's my bag.
It'syourcar. Thisis ourgarden. It'stheirbaby,
This is his house. That'stheirdog. That is my man.
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(Cotlectsmoll objectsfrom the studentsond put them in o cordboordbox or bog. Take on obiectout ond elicit this sequence.) ! T - ls thisvours? I ; i n - No, it'snot mine. l f Whoseis it then? etc. n lt's his/hers/Maria's, : ;--.__-_ (Write the exchonge on the boord. Wolk around the clossinviting studentsto toke on obiectqnd hove o similor exchongewith their portner. Groduolly erosethe model from the boord.)
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What about yours? In poirs, chonge the noun ond odjectivein this questionto moke five more questions. My shoesare brown;what about yours? With o new portner, toke turns to osk ond onswer your questions.
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I'm going to dictote the beginnings of some sentences.Write them down. In poirs, think of suitoble endings using the present continuous, e.g. Please turn the TV otf; I'm trying to study.
Don'tdisturb me; l'm . Don'tlisten to him;hejs'... QuicklPassthe spanner; I can't see you rightnow; fhink of two similor sentences thot would be usefulto you, e.g. Pass me the calculator; bills. I'm workingout my shareof the household
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Houses and rooms (Draw the crosssectionof o lorge house on the boord, with ot leost eight rooms over three floors.) Which rooms ore which? (Elicitideosond lobel the rooms.) Who lives here?(Elicitsome nomes ond their relotionships.) In smoll groups,imogine it's 8.00 p.m. ond everyoneis ot home. Agreewhere they ore ond whot they're doing, e.g. Lorraineis listeningto veryloud musicin her bedroom. lohn, her dad, is 'Turnit down.' in the hall shouting, whot you think they're doing right now. Think obout your fomily ond friends.Discuss
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(Ask o studentwhot he/shewecrrs or is weoring, ond then to repeotthe questionto onother student,e.g. I - Manuel,areyou wearingieans? Monuel - No, I'm not. Areyou wearingjeans,Ilona? I l o n o - Y e sl ,a m . T - Brigit, do you weara scarfl Brigit - Yes, I do, during the winter.Doyou weara scarf,Peter?)
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/\ l\ Guess whot I om doing. (Mime theseoctivities.)
a fast car,watching tennis, a glass,driving ] flyinga kite,washing a tooth out, feeding a lion,drinking wine, a cat, having ; eatinga fish,brushing at the moon, football on ry doingbrainsurgerydoingsums,looking ! watching Work in two teoms.Tqketurns to mime o continuousoction for your group to guess. Scoreo point if they con guessyour mime within thirty seconds.
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(With closses toking ploce in busy locotionssuch os o city centre,open the windows.Ask the studentsto keep quiet for o few minutes ond moke o note of onything they hear going on outside,e.g.A man is talkingloudlyon his mobilephone.As o follow up, osk them to imogine they ore in onother locotion with lots of soundsond write o similor description, e.g. of the seoside, in o busy restouront.)
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Wish you were here f1 Poltt, imagine you ore on holidoy in on idyllic locotion. You are sitting in a cof6 ond th_ere's o lot going on, both inside ond outside.Write o postcordto someoneback home telling them whot's hoppening oround you. Include descriptions of the weather,the people you con see,the cilyltown, the food ond drink, the hotel, ond your clrronqementsfof tfre next doy.
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$w-Imogineyou find your diary from o few yeors ogo. As you leof through it, you find "entry'e.g. different entriesbeginning with the following sentences. Continue each Life is boring ...- I'm studying every evening for my exam.Meanwhile aII my mates aregoing out and enioyingthemselves. Dominic'snot talking to me any moreeither.I'm not havin{ any fun at all!
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Do you rememberoll your oppointmentsor do you hove to write them down in o doiry? Copy this weekendplonner ond fill in any three spoces, leoving the othersblonk. Think of someunusual things to do, e.g. whale wotching, skydiving.(Vtot<e surethe students only fill in three spoces.) Saturday Morning Afternoon Evening Make orrangements with someother studentsfor the remaining times in your diary, e.g. A - Areyou doing anythingon Saturday aftemoon? B - I/es. I'm havingdinner with my agent. A - Oh. What aboutSunday evening? B - Uhm ... No.I'm freethen. A - Wouldyou like to cometo the cinema? B - OK. What do you want to see? A - I've heardaboutthis qreatfilm ...
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Annoying habits you knowwith onnoyinghobits.Tellyour portnerobout @. In poirs,think of someone
him/her. Don't choosesomeonein the closs!Give eoch other someodviceobout how to deol with the person,e.g. A - I hate him! He's alwaysteasingme! B - Youshould iust ignorehim. o person.In poirs, write o sentence lp** I,m going to give you on odjectivethot describes playing loud musicuntil the early aTways He's onti-sociol bod hobits, e.g. obout tiit p""rro"n's Allow the studentsto use poirs. the omongst (Distribute adjectives the hoursof the moming. dictionories.) '*""***'-*****, ' g1e9dV,. forgetful, dirty, conceited, careless, bossy, boring, ' argumentative, weird untidy, unreliable, selfish, grurmpy, mean,moody.paranoid, lazy,
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Past participles p* In groupsof four, moke sentences using post porticiplesin olphobeticolorder.If you con't think of one, you ore out of the gome, e'9' his letter. A - I've answered B - He'sblown the whistle. sPecial' C - l've cookedsomething D - I've neverdriven a car' sb Work in two teoms.I'm going to read o list of nouns. If you think you con use one in is correct,your teom gets put your hond up. Ifyour sentence o presentperfectsentence, ottempt with the someword, onother poini, ond gets a otherieom the o point. If it,s wrong, e.g. teo - I've madeYousometea'
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grid.) M (Write some infinitives which hove irregulor past porticiples in o noughts.ond crosses Toke turns to chooseo squore.To win it Work in two teoms to ploy noughts ond crosses. verb in the squore ond use it in o sentence. the of poiticiple post the me you hove to tell
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Mingle ond osk eoch other Have you ever ...? questions obout these subjects. Moke o note of who hos done these thinqs.
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In poirs, osk ond onswerquestionsobout whether you hove ever done thesethings. If the onsweris yes,find out somemore informotion, e.o. A - Haveyou everbrokena bone? B-Yes,Ihave. A - Whenwas that? B - WhenI wasat school. A - What happened? B - I broke my arm playing rugby. i cut yoUrfinger,eat Indianfood, havean injection, see an eclipse, i ] wear fancy dress,liveby the sea, go on a demonstration,
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Tell your partner somethingyou've d""";:;;;;rtt* elsein closs "J""" studentin closshos hos done, ond somethingyou've never done which you think onother done, e.g. I've beenscubadiving.I've neverplayedcricket,but I think Shaqil probably has. Tell us whot your portner sqid ond find out if his/her guesses ore true.
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Shout out somethinqs you ossociote with o romantic dinner. (Write them up on the boord.)
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Imoqine you ore script writers for o soop operq.You ore settingthe scenefor one of the femole octors who hos prepored o roniontit dinner for her bolirriend. Tell me whot she hos done, using the words on the boord, e.g. dinner - she's cooked the dinner. There'so knock at the door. (Ask the studentsto guess who it is). It's her mother. She doesn'tlike her doughter'sboyfriend. (ElicitideoJobout why, e.g. She wantsher to marry someone from a rich family.)The doughter doesn't wont her motlier to find out obout the dote. Mother is very suspicious ond oskslots of questions. In poirs, role-ploy the conversotion, e.g. Mum - Why haveyou cooked dinner? Doughter - Er ... because I'm hungry, Mum ... Mum - But why haveyou cooked so much? Doughter - WelI,I thoughtyou might tum up, Mum. Mum - And why haveyou boughtflowers? Thereis onother knock ot the door. This time it,s her boyfriend. In groups of three, role-ploythe conversotion betweenthe daughter,her mother ond the boyfriend. (If mole studentsin your clossfeel uncomfortableo6out ploying o femole role, chongethe roie of the mother to her fother.)
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In poirs, imogine you ore going on holidoy. Moke o list of ten things thot need to be done, e.g. book the hotel. Now imogine you ore obout to leove ond go to the oirport. Toke turns to qsk eoch other questions, e.g. A - Have you packed the towels? B - Yes,I have. Have you brought the passports? A - Yes, I have. Have you ...? (Voriotion: Give different groups different tosks, e.g. preporotions for o porty, o wedding, o job interview or o dote.)
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&" (Before breok, drow o picture of o personon the boord ond elicit feotures,hoirstyle, clothes,etc. During breok, moke somedrosticchanges.) In poirs, discuss whot hos hoppenedto the personon the boord, e.g He'sgrowna beard. He's lostan eye. w In groups,discuss whot chongeshove token ploce in the world in the lost 50 yeors. Here ore someideosto help you.
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!l*"In pairs, continue theseconversotions with on explonotion using the presentperfect ond o follow-up question,e.g. A - Why areyou limping? B - I've beenin a car accident. A - Oh dear.How did that happen?
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tElffi:iildl Time game Toketurns to repeotthis sentence, using the ending I give you ond odding for or since os necessory, e.g. T - I've knownhim sinceMarch. A - I've knownhim sinceMarch. I - Twoweeks. B - I've knownhim for two weeks. I'vebeenhere... July,threedays, 1998,ten years,yesterday, Christmas, five, minutes,ages, Saturday, my whole life,August,an hour and a half,last weekend, Monday, a while,almosta month l'vebeenwaiting ... an hour,eight o'clock,five minutes, Tuesday, two years,weeks,ages,we arrived, June 2001,longenough,halfan hour,the doorsopened,nearly threemonths, the beginning of term,lastWednesday, aboutten minutes (Voriotion:Ask the studentsto run the drill in groups,with one persondictoting the time expressions. Then osk the studentsto odd onother phrose,such os the thing they've been woiting for, e.g. I've beenwaiting sincelanuary for a visa ks visitFinland.)
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&' I'm going to osk someoneo question.Answerit, ond then osk someoneelsethe some question.Repeotthis pottern until I stort o new question.There'sone importont rule. (Write for and sinceon the boord.) Your onswer must include for or since,depending on which word on the boord I'm pointing ot when you onswer,e.g. T - How long haveyou beenstudyingEnglish, Ramon? Ramon - I've beenstudyingEnglishfor twoyears,part-time.Sara,how long haveyou been studyingEnglish? Soro - I've beenstudyingEnglishsinceFebruarylastyear. ..-*.: How long haveyou heen livinr'rin I How long haveyou beenin this school? i How long haveyou beenin this lesson? i ! How long haveyou beenusingthis book? How long haveyou $FWhot verbsgo with thesethings? (Only occepttheseverbs.Write them on the boord.) **---*---*] (study), yellowsocks (wear), (live), bicycle(ride), house/flat ] English : (play), instrument (go out with), j hobby(do),disco(go),boy/girlfriend ! musical (read), (smoke) creditcard (use),bool?novel cigarettes I football(play), i
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Readyour sentences out, stopping at for or sincefor the othersto guessthe ending.
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In poirs, write four endings for these sentences, using sfi//,yet, alreadyand (only)just, e.g. He'sbeen working here for o week ... - and he stillhasn'tmet the boss. * and he hasn'tgot a desk yet. - and he'salreadygot an office. - and he'sonly just got a computer.
Tronslotesomeof the sentences into your own longuoge.

Grammar 101
TETPWXW R ecent events

ge* In smoll groups, think of o recrsonfor these exclqmotions, e.g. Ouch! - Someonehas just stubbed their toe.
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iSorryIWhat?Sorry?Nevermind'oK,when?You,rejoking| you! Badluck! Bless 1 i No,thanks.GreatlWow! Really? : Welldone!Help!Cheersl Godl Of course.Uh-oh!So? I

s* I'm going to osk you why you're behoving strongely.Mime the behoviour,ond exploin using the presentperfect,e.g.T - Why areyou so tired?S - (stretchingand yowning) Because ['ve beenworkingall night. shivering, crying, so filthy, angry so tired,laughing, eatingso much, l so excited, so bored,bleeding, limping, hidingunderthe desk,wet, ; not sitting on your chair, holding that baby,beingso friendly, shouting : io' In poirs, write suitoble onswersto thesequestions using the presentperfect,e.g. Whyis it so hat in here? Because someone has Ieft the heatingon./ Because someone hasbeenbaking bread.
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Why is it so cold in here?Why are the policehere?What'sin the news today? rnttr-ar2t_.]^\^/'e yOUr : What,sthe matter?!!f-rora'c family?What,S that Smell?
Compore your ideos with onother poir. (Voriotion: Ask the students to write the most unexpected clnswer they con think of. Then they work together in poirs to guess eoch other's onswers.)
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& In pairs, osk ond onswerquestions, using this toble to help. Make somenotes. When What time 0o you does helshe ger up go to work
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Mondays? Saturday mornings?
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night? the weekend?
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Find o new portner. Ask ond onswerquestionsobout the first portne{, in the third person. h' In poirs, motch o verb from the first column with o word from the secondto make o phrose.(Re-order the words in the secondbox when you write them up; they oppear here in the correctorder.)
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Usethe phrosesto osk your portner questions. Give short onswers, e.g. eat + beef.A - Doyou eat beefl B - Yes, I do. / No, I don't.
live, drink,like,play, watch,go, 1 i alone, tea with milk,dogs,chess,horror films,dancing, i
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M How often do you come to closs? How often do you get up tote?(Usesimilor questions to elicit thesefrequencyexpressions. Write them on the boord.) once/twice threetimes
day WEEK monln year
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everyother day I'm going to give you eoch on octivity. Mingle, ond find out who doesit the most ond who doesit the leost.(After the survet elicit the resultsond write them on the boord.)
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@ In small groups,discuss thesetopics.
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eat pasta,sleepin, drinktea, cook, get a haircut, dance,visit ; { buy new clothes, do the laundrysurfthe Internet, use a drill,dream,do arithmetic, sing, i i relatives,
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] a typicalweekendat home ! the peoplein your hometown
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sp Think of o film or book thot you reolly enjoyed.Spendo few minutes refreshingyour memory ond moking somenotes.In smoll groups,tell eoch other oll obout it, buidon't tell them the title. Seeif onyone con guessfrom your description,e.g. There's a boycalled magicalpowers.IJnfortunately he liveswithhis horcidle aunt and uncle,the !arry_,who hasgot - ordinaryhuman beings... Dursleys. They're'muggles' s (Invite studentsto think of somejokesin Englishond tell the clossin o loter lesson,e.g. There's thisblokewhogoesinto a pub. He'sgot a mouse in hispocket... .)
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Work in poirs. Imogine you ore PAsto a busy executivewho hqs to ottend o number of meetingsin New York ond Los Vegosnext Mondoy ond Tuesdoy. Write a detoileditinerory for the trip, including trovel orrongements, meetings,hotels ond entertqinment.Moke sure you both hove o copy of the itinerory. Swopportnersond role-ploy this conversotion. StudentA, you ore the personolossistont. StudentB, you ore the executive. You ore putting someof the detoilsinto your personol orgoniserond you keep checkingthem. You olso want to moke time during the trip for somegombling ond other things, e.g. A - Youdepartfrom Heathrow, Terminal 3 at 8.10 a.m.,fliqht BAZ24. B - Terminal 3 at 8.10. 8A742. A - No, it's flight 8A724. B - OK, 724. Is it an aisleseat? A - Yes. Youamiveat IFK at 9.20 local time. B - Uh-huh.That's21.20 localtime. A - No,you arrivein the morning... When you hove finished,swop roles.
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Pronouns
pronouns Personal EffiiffiFTdl
@.(Write this toble on the boord, eliciting the pronouns os you do so.)
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Toke turns to soy q sentence ond then o question using the words in the toble, e.g. A - She likeshim. B - Why does she like him? A, - Because...
M In smoll groups,toke turns to soy os mcrnysentences os you con using thesewords, os quickly os possible, e.g.He wantsus to listen. want(s) would like
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them Add onother preposition,where possible, ond onother pronoun, e.g. He wantsus to listen to him.
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pr"."ntlOrv,mirror/admire, sweets/make sick, cake/help,pay rise/give, , , tealmat<e, ! drink/pour,dinner/cook,

Using someof the someverbs,moke sentences that are true for you, ond tell your partner, e.g. I mademyselfa nice cup of coffeeand watchedTV. l*" In smoll groups,discuss thesequestions. ] I i i j i l ! 1 When do you most enjoyyourself? What kind of thingscan switch themselves off? Are you sure of yourself? Tellus about a time when you reallyadmiredyourself. What do you say when you invitesomeoneinto your house? What does DIY mean?Are you any good at DIY? How often do you think about yourself? Namesomeone who takeshimself/herself too seriously. Who in the grouplooksat himself/herself the most in the mirror?
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In small groups,put theseexpressions into the toble. Somego in more thon one ploce.
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plenty, thereis loads, a little, a few,any,some,enough,
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Think of on exomple for eoch one thot's true for your group, e.g. OIgahasgot lofsof sisfers. (Drow the toble lorge on the boord so theret plenty of room for exomples.)
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(Drow o noughts ond crosses grid on the boord with thesewords.)Work in tvvoteoms. Ploy noughts ond crosses. Toke turns to choosecrsquore.To win it, you hove to moke o sentences with the words in the squore.
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how much, a lot, plenty, some, not many,a little,a few, too much, any
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=lgffiwu;lGountableand uncountable
@ Workin smollgroups. wordscountoble or uncountoble? Are these
politics,information ] news, meat, money,star,stairs,person,advice,equipment, t___**_"**** @ Listento thesewords ond put them under three heodings:countoble,uncountoble, or both.
sandwich, book,job, pepper, energy, work,orange, cake, bread, country time, furniture, snow, fish,literature, window, bottle, sleep, juice, question, glass, salt,loaf, hair mouse, word,paper, table,
Write two sentences using eoch of the words in the third column, once os o countoblenoun I alwaysadd lotsof pepperto ond once os on uncountqble noun, e.g. I like stuffedred peppers. my food. Elffi-u! Geography game Work in groupsof three. Think of o country eoch,but don't tell the otherswhot it is. Ask eoch other quontity questionsobout thesethings to guessthe country, e.g. A - Are theremany skyscapers? B - No, therearen't many./ Yes, thereare a lot. C - Is theremuch rain? B - No thereisn't much./ Yes, there'sa lot. *-***; j mountains, pyramids, wildlife, sl<yscrapers, snow,crime,sand,traffic, camels, i people, pollution freshwater, tourism, religions, languages, beaches, i bicycles, .
Grammar 105
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LAT
but substitutethe word I write on the boord. (See W* Toketurns to repeatthis sentence, on poge 93 for full instructions.) Substitutions
your, i (house, furniture, " ls theremuchfood in the fridge? pond,many,rivel sea) fish, are, fridge, wine, the, uny, i : '*
in as much detoil os I con' When you haveyou got?| will onswerony coriect qrrestions hoveosk6d 0 correctquestiondo not osk ony more until everyonehos hod o go' Work in poirs ond osk your portner obout his/her fridge'
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s* Work in poirs. Copy the toble ond completeit by writing questionsond onswers' What When Who Where What's he doing? He's ironing.
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to use it in o questionto your I will soy o questionword. StudentA, you hove five seconds B's turn, e'9. question, it's Student portner. StudentB, onswerit. For the next I - where A - Wheredo you live? B - I live in Madrid. T - when B - Whenis your birthdaY? to help you guessthe identity &* Work in two groups.Agree o list of the ten best questions The Isit man-made? big is it? How made ofl it What's e.g. yo.i.on;t see, of on object questionsmust stort with onE of the question words from the toble. You con't osk whot the objectis colled. Find o portner from the other group. Toketurns to think of on everydoyobiectond use do you think ore the your ten questionsto work ouiwhot it is. Which group'squestions most effective? (Drow a grid on the boord with these S' Work in two teoms to play noughts ond crosses. words.)Toketurns to chobse'osqubre.To win it, you hove to mqke o questionwith the questionword.
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Interviews A
In poirs, ask questionsto help you fill in this form with informotion obout your portner, e.g. What's your name? Name Address Age Nationality MaritalStatus Children Telephone number Job
Keepyour notesond swop portners.Ask ond onswerquestionsabout the personon your portner'sform, e.g. What'sher name?
lElffi#ffiffiI Reptyquestions
I'm going to tell you somethingto reply to with o short question,e.g. T - It's raining. S - /s if? T - Yes, it is. T - It's not here.S -.Isn'f it? T - No,it isn,t. (Model the rising intonotion of the question,then choosestudentsot rondom.) He'sjust arrived. l'm studying economics, There'san e-mailfor you. l'd liketo try. I passedl We've run out of sugar. We'regoing. 1 l'll be back late. i They had a fight. ! I don't know. We've movedto Belgium. I I Nobodycame to the party.
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Shewasn'tthere. l Look. Harrygave me this. He'snot in. You look ill. Ron'sgot yours. Glenda won't likeit, There'sno one at home.
In groups of three, toke it in turns to soy o stotement to the student on your left to reply to with q short question. (Voriotion:Get studentsto odd surprise/disoppointment when replying to positive stotements, e.g.A - It's snowing. B - It isn't, is if? Model the intonotion.)
=Tffi-rl Questionnaires
In groups of three, write o short questionnoireobout the topic I give you. Moke sureyou oll hove o copy of the questions, e.g. I) Doyou own a compiter? 2) How long do you spendon line everyday?
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(Number the studentsfrom one to three within eoch group, ond osk them to form new groupsof studentswith the some number - oll the f itogether, oll the 2s together,etc.) In your new groups,osk ond onsweryour questionsand write o report of your findings in 100 words, e.g. HaIf the students in the group own a computer. Theyspendan-average of 4S minutes a day on line ...
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tr* Work in poirs. I'm going to reod out twelve sentences. Eight hove mistokesond four ore correct.Write them down, correctinqthe mistokes. **: r 1 Do you know what time does the train arrive? i 2 Tellme what is the problem. I : 3 Can you tell me where is EastStreet? 4 Couldyou let us know when he arrives? 5 Do you know if this is the way to the station? 6 I'd liketo know whereis the library? 7 Couldyou let us know are you coming? B Do you understand what are they saying? 9 Please tell me who'sin charge, 10 | wonderwill it be sunnytomorrow, 11 l'm tryingto find out how muchwas my lastbill i i 12 Can you tell me wherethe buffetcar is? !
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i&*" In poirs, write eight indirect questions obout your Englishlessons, e.g.I'd liketo know when the holidaybegins.Couldyou tell me when the next vocabulary testis?
Fff$ffi$s$ilU'l Questionsfor answers

@ (Write up ten onswersobout yourself.)Here ore someonswersto questions obout me. What were the questions? e.g. Scotlond- Wherewereyou born? Two of eoch - How many brothersand sisters haveyou got? When I wos five - Whendid vou start school? Write o list of five onswersobout yourself. Swop lists with o portner ond work out the questions. M Work in two teoms.I'm going to give you someonswers, If you con think of the question,put your hond up. Your teom getsone point for eoch reosonoblequestion.
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I Sorry? 5.30 a.m. By train. On Friday.Not many. On Fridays.In the kitchen. j Yes,you are. AMercedes. Wehad acurry. OK, fine. No, thanks. Gardening. i
IETPSH*ffi1 Yes/No Game

Work in poirs. StudentA, try to get studentB to soy yes or no by quickly osking twenty questions. If he/shesoysyes or no, you win. If you run out of questions, he/shewins. Thenswoproles, e.g.A-Doyousmoke?B-Never!A-Wouldyouliketotry one?B- I,d rather not, thanks.A - But I sawyou smoking yesterday. B - No,you didn't! (B losesbecouse he/shesoid no.)
fE-lPfW Questions for questions

Work in poirs and write o short conversotionusing only questions, e.g.A - Areyou OK? B - Why oreyou asking? A - Doyou haveto be so defensive? you think I'm B - What makes defensive? Compareyour conversotion with onother poir. (Invite the poirs to reod out their conversotion to the closs.)
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(Write We've never met before,...on the boord ond osk studentsto tell you the questiontog. Model the pronunciotion for this question: 1) for o reol question, wittr o rising intonotionl and 2) a requestfor confirmotion, with o folling intonotion. Elicit situotions in which eoch questioncould be osked.) Toke turns to read out one of these sentences, odding o question tog. Decidewhether you want it to be: 1) o reol question,or 2) o requestfor confirmotion. I'll soy 1 or 2 depending on whot I heor. It's a lovelyday. He didn'tsay that. The exam'son Wednesday. Ben'sreally fullof himself. We've nevermet before. Therearen'tany left, Youdon't likeme. This is absolutely rubbish. rvuuvr rravtvv, l'll see you again.
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got my dictionary. j You've Kate's beautiful. I You've finished now. I Thatisn'tElvis Presley. i Something's wrong. _-j
In poirs, choosesome of the questionsond write short diologues,e.g. A - YouknowStan,don't you? B - No, I don't think I've evermet him. A - Areyou sure?Weren't you at lane's party last month?He was the Dl. B - Oh, that's Stan. Yes, I knowhim!
IEffiffi[i] Making conversation

In poirs, Iook ot this conversotion. Where do you think the conversotion is hoppening? Read it out between you, odding a question tog in eoch gop. (when the studentshove finished osk for two volunteers to reod it out to the clqss.)
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A - Thisis great, _? B - Yes,it is.Andthere's plenty of food,_
2 Absolutely, The bride looksstunning, | know,and her new husband's so handsome, Yes,but he doesn'tsay much,_? No, he can't speakverygood English, _? Hmm.... That's not Roger, _? Oh yes. He'sgot a bit faI,_? You'retelling me. Thatcan't be his new partner, l'm not sure.Let'sfind out, _ ?
(Voriotion: Dictote the sentences ond students odd the question togs afterwords.) In the some poirs, write o similor conversotion for one of the following situotions. (Elicit the ideos in brocketsthot follow eoch situotion. Let students choosewhich situation thev wont, but ensurethot eoch situotion is coveredby of leost one poir.) 1 in a restaurant, aftera nice med (opinions about the food, the decor, the bill,etc.) 2 leaving to go on holiday(checking that everything is ready:packing,tickets,etc.) 3 on holiday, havinga walk (theweathet the people,the holidayso far,etc.) 4 talkingabout a footballteam who you both support(the players, the manager, recent fixtures, an upcomingmatch,etc.)
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wan a car wan to livein a town wan a friend want Ine one
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I can relyon, you snowed me yesterday. the peopleare friendly. is safeand economical.
In poirs, tell eoch other obout things you've got, ploces you've been to, ond people you know, e.9. I've_gota mobile phone that takesphotos. I once went to a place where everyone carries a gun. I know someone who can ride a monocycle. &' !n two groups, write ten questions to quiz the other group with, You must use eoch of these pronouns ot leost once, e.g. Name the country where Einsteinwas born. Name the person who painted the 'Mona Lisa'. i*"-*-*^-*-* j ttrat, which, whose, when, who, where i i-,,-_,,"*,..",-,.,-,,_",,., - _*__."_j
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I'm going to reod some definitions. Write down the thing or person I'm defining, e.g. A ploce where you con buy food. - Supermarket.
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I a placewhereyou can eat : a personwho opensdoors ; a placewhere peopleare buried a day when nobodyworks a personwho arrestspeople a personwho livesin a palace : a city wherethey speak French
something that opens doors an animalwhjch has big ears a personwhose wife has died a time when peoolecelebrate a placewhereyou can see animals a placewhereyou keep money a personwhosejob is to teach
Work in poirs. Try to rememberthe definitions,e.g.supermarket- A supermarket is a place where you can buygroceries. fEl PIWI Bluff words In teoms of three, find o word in the dictionory thot you are surenobody in classknows ond write three definitions,two false ond one correct,e.g.bluff. L) A bluff is a soft stickthat vou usefor hittina a drum. 2) Bluffis a colourwhichis mid-waybetweenilueand grey. 3) To bluff is to makesomeone believe somethingthat is untrue. Toketurns to reod your definitions.The other teoms hove to chooseone of your definitions. If they chooseone of your folse definitions,your teom wins o point. If they choosethe coffectone, they win o point. (Voriotion: Choosewords from the list below.Your selectionshould include things, people ond ploces.Finish the octivity by writing up more words ond asking for imoginotvJdefinlUons from the whole closs.) blacksmith, flea,fluff,harvest, janitor, hinge,hive,hook,idler, kennel, kiln,kipper, .. kite,larder, lobster, loo, maggot,maze,miser, outcast, paw, ploughman, ox, padlock, potty,pram,ragamuffin,sawmi|l,SeWer,skip,socket,Spanner,spinster,SWap,"
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Favourite things l-ElffiffiHl-Gl j**In smollgroups, things,e.g.on onimol thot you tell eochotheroboutthese '.. likebecause I really that is an animal Tiger like Ihe Siberian
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wno you aomlre someone that you are good at somethrng that you like an animal whichyou havefounduseful something
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F* In three groups, broinstorm ten to fifteen words in the cotegoriesI give you, ond write them on smoll piecesof poper.
(Collectall the piecesof paper togetherond shuffle them. Divide them into three piles of agoin ond put one pile in the middle of eoch group.) Toketurns to pick up o _piece whopainted'Guemica'.Ifyou make o wasthe person .g. Picasso poper ond moke o ientence,e the piece you get t9 kee_R grommaticolly ond factuolly correct sentencein fifteen seconds, put the pieceof P-oPer bock ot the bottom of 6f poper. If you con't moke o correctsentence, the pile. The personot the end with the most piecesof poper is the winner.
I-ETPWffiNon-defining
e.g.The old boothouseis o museum now. @ In smoll groups,join thesepoirs of sentences, whereDylan Thomaslived,is a museumnow. Dylon Thomos lived there. - Theold boathouse,
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We spenta weekjust sunbathing. to Greece. I We went on holiday car had brokendown. lift. His i ffre man asked me for a lt had stoppedworking. boughtanother. fV out our.old W" threw i 3n9
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which ore true On your own, write similor poirs of sentences you He worksfor Lukoil.Look ot the poirs of sentences portner, e.g.My dad'sa chemist. worksfor Lukoil. ieceive,ona loin them to moke one, e.g.My dad, who'sa chemist, thot you might osk someoneabout eoch of ix' In groupsof three,write o few questions things? thesethings, e.g. Doyou likecollecting --*-*-***-1 i---**-*----"W programmes and goingout, favourite things,nightlife and collecting i hobOies X books i favourite j and films,food and cooking,holldays and travel,friendsand family,
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(Put on empty seotin the middle of the clossond chooseo studentto sit there.The rest of bosedon their group work. When they hove gleonedo frim/her questions the clossost<s few focts from the student in the middle, elicit o non-defining relotive clouse ond write it on the boord, os in the exomple below.Then ask the studentin the middle to choose until everyonehqs hod o 9o.) onother to toke his/her ploce,ond keeprepeotingthe process Closs- Doyou like dancing,Annette? I loveit. Annette - Yes. Closs- Areyou any good? Annette - Not really.But I go to a nightclubeveryweekend. dancing,goesto a nightclubeveryweekend. Annette,who loves
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try to odd o relotive clouse, e.g. I met on old friend cnlled Pete. - I met an old friend called Pete, who(m) I hadn't seen for ten years.
Elaboration ond Writethe sentence I'll stopoftereochsentence. o shortstory. &*I'm goingto dictote
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his Mini.We stopped on tne way in Oxford.When we arrivedwe met the headmaster : In the evening, and his wife.We had lunchat the pub. lt was in the localvillage. to London' we returned The nextmorning we droveto Cheltenham.
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In poirs, osk ond onswerquestionsobout the following topics.Moke somenotes.Then poir up with o new portner ond tell eoch other whot you Ieornt obout the first portner, e.9' A - What kind of musicdo You like? B - lazz, mainly. A - I askedPoteywhat kind of musiche liked and he said he Iikediazz.
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Work in poirs. Tell eoch other two lies obout other studentsin the closs,e'9. Mishasleeps with a teddybear. Mingle ond tell eoch other the lies you heord obout them. If you heor o lie obout yourself, of lying, deny it, e'g' confront the lior. If you ore occused saidyou sleptwith your teddybear' Koro - Misha, Roberto Why did you tell Kara I sleptwith a teddybear? Misho - Hey, Roberto. Roberto- i didn't sayyou slept-witha teddybear now;I saidyou had sleptwith a teddybear whenyou werea child.
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What kinds of things ore included in o pockoge holidoy?
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'holidoy from hell'. Broinstormo list of things In poirs, imogine you hove just been on the Write o letter of comploint to the holidoy obout from your holidoy. you 61re unho-"ppy but it we wouldhavea roomwith a view, told We were e.g. item, eoch compony,deoting with Yousaid the hotel had a pool. Youdidn't teII us it would be empty! facei a building strte! Swap letters with onother poir. Who hod the worst holidoy? in o relotionshipbetweentvvopeoplewho-havejust split Imogine you ore the go-between from one personto the other soyingwhy-he/she.to.tttt .tp. iorl ore deliverinj a messoge heart is_broken. os cl note, e.9._/ohn's your messoge write hbr/him bock. Work in poirs ond said he of i!. He_ sleep because couldn't and he time you the aII about been thinkiig He saidhe'd As o closs,decidewhosenote woulddo anythingto havi you back.... Reodout your messoge. is the soddest.
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@ In groupsof four, broinstorm o list of twelve odjectives. Followthis sequence to build sentences, e.g. A - Sad. B - I'm so sad. C - I'm so sad that I couldcry. D - Hard. A - If's so hard. B - If's so hard that I think I'II give up. C - Easy ... Fta* In groupsof four, broinstorm o list of twelve nouns. Follow this sequence to build sentences, e.g. A- FiIm. B - If's sucha good fiIm. C - If 's sucha good fiIm that I couldwatch it again and again. D - Game. A - It wassuchan excitinggame.
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$** In poirs, discuss the topicsbelow ond then report bock to the closson the thinqs thot you both do and the things neither of you does,e.g. A-Iplaychess. A - I don't play chess. B*So doI./Idotoo. B - Neitherdo L / I don't either. A - Weboth play chess. A - Neitherof us plays chess.
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@ In poirs, discuss the six items in eoch group and choosetwo thot ore different.Soywhy using both or neither,e.g. gin, water, wine, brondy, coke, whisky - Brandyand wine because theyare both made in France.Waterand cokebecause neitherof them is alcoholic.
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On your own, write three questionsobout everydoy hobits ond routines. Get into groups of four ond conduct o mini-survey of the other three. Then write o few sentences dboni vour group, e.g. Weall eat cornflakes exceptNuria. Noneof us hasa cooked breakfast exceptYukio.
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Work in poirs. Taketurns to closeyour eyesond imogine the perfecthouseor holidoy locotion. Describeit to your portner, e.g. There's a beautifuIgaiden with a little cottagein the middle of it. Thereare someappletrees.Thereare lotsof birds singingeverywhere. Ther6,s a fountainin the middle... portner questionsobout his/her imaginory ploce, e.g.A- Are thereany animals? lsk_your B -Yes,there are.I canhearlotsofbirds.A_ Isthere apond?B -No, thereisn't, butthere,s a fountain. Describe and draw @ I need o volunteerto draw the things in my home. (Drow a plon of your home on the boord ond give the volunteer o boord pen.) Drow thesethings,-e.g.There's a tablein the kitchen.Thereare someplants in the living room. (List obout five.) Work in poirs. Drow o floor plon of your home ond give it to your portner. Tell one onother where ten things ore ond seeif they con drow them on your plon. Y I_tpoitt, osk eoch other questionsobout the plocesyou live, e.g./s therea tablein the kitchen? Are thereany plants in the livinq room?
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e.g. I or not enough, *" Add o line of explonotion to thesecomplointsusing foo much/many - There chairs. are too manyof us and not enough don't like this clossroom.
@ In poirs, tell eoch other obout things you don't like ond why, e.g.I don't like the weather. There's too much rain and not enoughsunshine.
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- patient,organised. (Write for eoch, e.g.Teocher e Tell me somejobs ond two odjectives jobs.) you ten hove obout them up until In poirs, tell eoch other why peopleyou know couldn't do thosejobs, e.g. My brotherwould enough. He'stoo impatientand not organised be a terribleteacher. &* On o piece of poper, write down two things obout yourself thot you'd like to chonge (Collectthe piecesof poper') using foo + odjective,e.g.I'm (abit) too disorganised. who it is eoch time. I'm going to reod them out. In poirs, guess
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$wIn poirs, broinstorm five life-chongingevents,eg. winning the lottery. Shout out your ideos.(Write the best oneson the boord.) Eochpoir, chooseon importont event from the Iist. Eoch poir must chooseo different event. Write five sentences about how life used to be different,with o corresponding sentence obout how things ore nowodoys,e.9.I usedto countmy pennies. NowI can't counthow muchmoney I've got. Reodout your list of sentences, but do not inention the life-chongingevent. Other students will guesswhot it wos. *' Write obout ten sentences describinghow your relotionshipshove chongedin the lost ten yeors,e.g.I usedto go out with someone calledSimon.NowI'm marriedto PauI.I didn't use to be as closeto my brotheras I am now. In smoll groups,tell eoch other obout the changesyou wrote down. Are there ony trends in common? (lf possible, group studentsof o similor oge together.)
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F work in two groups,A ond B. I'm going to soy somenouns. Group A, shout out o positiveodiectivefor eoch one. Group B shout out o negotiveone, e.g. rock stor.A famous. B - rude.
house, baby, tramp,shirt,river, dog,tree,hair, pig,car,shoe,girl,flower, park,street, town,litter

@ In poirs, think of o ploce you both know. Student A, write o positive description of the ploce.StudentB, write o negotiveone. Comporeyour descriptions.
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S" In poirs, motch eoch onimol with the odjective which is troditionolly used to describe them. (Re-order the odjectives when you write them up on the boord; they oppeor here in the correct order")
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How do they comporewith populor ideasobout onimols in your country, e.g.1san owl considered wise? s- Think of onimols thot theseodiectives could describe.
Think of onother odjectiveto describe eoch onimol and exploin why you choseit. Animal categories teams.I'm going to give you o categoryof onimols, e.g. onimols thot con fly. lArorki_n Agree how mony different onimals in thot cotegory your teom con write down in two minutes. The teom which bids the highest number goesfirst. If they reoch thot number, they win thot mony points. If they don't, they don't get ony points ond the other teoms get one point for eoch different onimol on their lists. Animalsthat: lay eggs, areverystrong, dig holes, arepoisonous, i livein people's houses,
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Whot ore the soundsin your languoge?Whot obout someother animqls? Animal kingdom Work on your own. Copy this diogrom. Write your fovourite ond your leost fovourite wolking ond swimming. Comporeyour choices fTying, onimol for eoch of thesecotegories: with your portner ond tell eoch other why you chosethem.
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Work in smoll groups.I'll give eoch group o ploce.Write o list of ten items thot you con find there. a woman'shangbag,an officedesk drawer,a hiker'sbackpack,a child,spocket Toketurns to nome the ploce and give the other groupsone minute to shout out g.verythingthey think is-on your hJt. Your group iets one point for everything on your list that the others don,t think of. Broinstormsomeobjectswhich con be found in more thon one of the ploces. Beoringthis in mind, ogreeon the singlemost useful thing in the world, e.g. a plec'e oi string.
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s" work in teoms. I'm going to give you the first word in a cotegory.Toke turns to shout out more words in the some cotegory, e.g. uncle - son, sister....ih;, lost teom to give o word wins o point. (When someoneitorts to stoll, finish the cotegory Uy ioyi"g Gioing, going ... gone.T}'is is the lost thing on ouctioneersoysto stop uiiairig.f arm,tennis, doctor,hat,who, rain,happy,across,red, apple,bedroom
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Listento the following words ond put them in five categories: opinion, oge, colour,pottern or style,ond moteriol. -leather, Iovely, ; denim,flared,baggy,scruffy, new, blue, nice, nylon,pint<, I plastic, purpre, sirk,casuar, second-hand, short,sreeueo, poiti-Jot, i | Plain, smart,trendy,vervet, woor,cotton, awfui,checked i i striped,ord-fashioned, In poirs, compcrreyour lists ond odd more words to eoch cotegory. Describe to eoch other whot someof the other studentsore weoring using severolof the odjectivesin your list, e'9' She's wearinga beautifulgreen silk skirt.He,s gotnew baggy jeans. Who is the best-dressed personin the class? Tell us obout o troditionol costume from your countrv.
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*' In poirs, find out if theret something thot one of you wonts to buy. Write o short conversotion between o customer ond o shop ossistontin o shop thot sellswhot you wont. (Invite severolpoirs to reod out their conversotion.) fEFW Specialist outfitters ** In poirs, think of on occosionwhich requiresspeciolclothes,e.g. o wedding,o wolk who wos coming whot clothing odviceyou would give someone in the mountoins. Discuss with you. |oin o poir plonning o different outing. Toke turns to give eoch other advice on whot to weor for the two triPs. In your groups,tell eoch other Whosetrip neededthe most speciolistor expensiveclothes? obout ony speciolistclothing you hove. @" Write on oppropriote octivity for eoch of theseitems. Compore your ideos with o portner. goggles, helmet, bow tie, sweatband, flippers, mittens, shinguards, wellington boots, nappies, veil,wetsuit, apron,lifejacket, gown,trainers dressing sandals, high-heeled shoes,tracksuit,
Tell eoch other obout a time when you wore some of these things. Moke o note of whot your portner hos worn and ot the end we'll see who in the closs hos wom the most items.
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which ore ... &* In poirs, write o list of things in the clossroom dark blue,brown, dark green,red, lightblue,orange, ! yellow, white,mauve,lightgreen,purple i black,pink,grey,
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1 Whichcoloursdon't go together? . 2 What coloursare there in your room/flaVhouse? , 3 What coloursmake peoplefeel sad/happy/aggressive?
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In smoll groups,ogreethe onswersto thesequestionsand note them down. Some questionshave more thon one onswer.Scoreone point per colour. What do you get if you mix blue and yellow?(green) What colouris the planetMars?(red) What do you get if you mix red and green?(brown) What do you get if you mix blackand white? (grey) 5 What colourare my eyes?(Close them and see who can remember.) 6 What kind of colour is scarlet?(red) 7 What colourare New Yorktaxis?(yellow) 8 What are the coloursof the rainbow? (red,orange, yellow, green,blue,indigo, violet) 9 What kind of colouris turquoise? (blue) 1 0 What colourare baby gidstraditionally yellow, dressed in? (pink, white) '11 What do you get if you mix red and yellow?(orange) What colouris the FinancialTimes? (pink) Whatcolouraretulips?(red,yellow, orange, white,'black') 1 l t + What do you get if you mix blue and red? (purple)
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&* In small groups,find exomplesof the following in your coursebook. ;"-'* *" i Ootd, font, paragraph, italic, line,capital letter, underline, strikethrough, superscript i
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the differences betweenthesepoirs of words, e.g. In poirs, write sentences to demonstrote In total,he'sstolenabout500. He'srobbed about20 people.
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Work in two groups.Group A, brainstorm city jobs.Group B, broinstorm country jobs. Moke sureyou both hove o copy of the list. Find o portner from the other group and comporelists. If there ore ony jobs on both lists,exploin why you think they should stoy on yours insteod of your portner's, e.g. A policemanis needed morein a city than the country.
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In smoll groups,broinstorm words for o job opplicotion. (Build up o word web on the board with words connected to before,during ond ofter the interview) Then tell eoch other obout o job opplicotion you hove mode.
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Work in two teoms.Toketurns to come to the boord. I'm going to give you o job. (Write it on o pieceof poper or whisper it). You hove sixty seconds to drow picturesto help your teom guessthe job. You mustn't write ony letters,or speok. policeman, bricklayer, carpenter, soldier, I waiter,doctor,gardener,
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Taketurns to come to the front ond sit focing the closswith your bock to the boord. I'm going to write your job on the boord. Ask the clossyes/no questions to find out whot it is, e.g. Do I work in an office?Do I makethings?Do I weara uniform? 128 7OO Classroom Activities
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will need doing, e.g. fiiing the windows, replocing old kitchen units. (Find out if onyone has worked in o building iob or knows obout DIY ond invite them to onswer questions from the class.) Work in groups. Imogine you crre going to hove o house built. Decide which kinds of professioirols you wifl need to do the work. Order them in o list beginning with the orchitect andhnishinq with the decorqtors. Next to eoch one, write one or two iobs they will do.
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ploce. Work in smoll groups.I'm going to come round ond give eochgroup o w_ork classroom, staffloom, ploce, school e.9. thqt with you ossociote Broinstorm o tlit of words Reodout your list for the other groupsto guessthe workplace. playground. teacher, students,
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(Write theseinterjectionson the boord.) How do you soy thesewords?When would you soy them? shhh! ouchl Grrr! Hmm. Oi! Mmml Tut{ut! Yukl Phew! wow! Boo! ohl
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(Draw the box, without the exomple words, on the boord. Invite o student to odd the words accordinq to where the closs thinks they should 9o')
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fElPTlffil onomatopoeia in your longuoge how you writethe sounds Discuss descriptions. In poirs,Iistento these
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&* In poirs, fill in the nomes in the royol (\Mindsor) fomily tree. (Write up the diogrom with qll the nomes blank except Queen Elizobeth.) Compore your work with qnother group.
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& In groups,discuss the differences betweenthesekinds of fomily: nuclear fomily; extended fomily; single porent fomily. whot kind of fomily do you come from? Tell the group obout life in your fomily. f Dlow o diogrom like this, showing your fomily relotionships ten yeors ago ond todoy. The distoncebetweenthe circlesshowsthe closeness of the relationship.write the nomes of the peoplein your diogrom ond seeif your portner con guessthe reiotionships. Tenyearsago Today
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Work in smoll groups.Broinstormwords for this timeline. preparations for the wedding invitations buy rings
Tell each other obout o wedding you hove been to.
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work in smoll groups.r'm going to djctote ten setsof four words,e.g. cabbage, orange., potato, onion. After eoch set, choosethe odd one out ond circle it. (G1ve the itudentJo short time to choosebetweeneoch set.More thon one clnswer is possible.) Toketurns to exploin your decisions,e.g. A cabbage, because it's the only one that'i green.I An orange,becausiit makesterriblesouo.
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Swoplists with onother group. You now hove ten minutes to agreeo recipe coursemeol using all thE ingiedientson their list. You con add only solt, pepper ond oil. your meol to the closs.Vote on which meol you would most like to eot' Describe Edible or inedible In poirs, sit focing eoch other. Toketurns to throw o boll of poper !o your portner os you soy o noun. Wh; you cotch the boll you must say immediotely if the noun is edible or inedible,e.g. A (throwing) - Egg. (throwing) - Book. B (cotching)- Edible. (throwing) House... A (cotching)- Inedible.
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Work in poirs. Nome o kind of food that is ...
cold,sweet,alive,blue,sour,fresh,green,hard,soft, hot, boring, yellow, round,heavy, preserved, junk healthy, unpleasant, expensive, fattening, Plot the words you come up with on this scottergrom. healthv
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Look up ony of thesewords you do not know. j mountain,hill,river, waterfall, valley, cliff,shore,sea, waves,forest, plain,lake,track,quarrydesert, glacier, volcano, island, beach,road : I Sit facing eoch other in poirs. StudentA, describe o sceneto studentB. This con either be o ploce you hove been to, or on imoginory ploce.StudentB, closeyour eyesond imagine the scene. You need to rememberos much detoil os possible, so osk questions, e.g.Is there any snowon the mountains? When you hove finished, swop roles. (Ask some studentsto describetheir portner's scenes.) ffiffi-u,l Outstanding features Work in smoll groups.Discuss the onswersto thesequestions ond write them down.
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(Go through the onswers,giving just the nomes. Then write up the stotisticsin o different order ond osk the studentsto motch them.) Tell me the highest mountoin, etc. in your country.
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Knowledge race Work in groups of four ond oppoint one person to be the secretory.I'm going to nome o country. You hove one minute to write os mony notes os you con-otrout the people qn_d.]ne geogrophy before I nome the next country e.g. Chino - big, overa billion people,CreatWall, capital city Beiiing. -l -***: r-----*'*-"-"-* Australia Brazil, Russia, Spain, Sweden,lndia,lceland, i America, 1 you hove five minutes to turn your notesinto completesentences, e.g. Chino - It's a big country.Thereare overa billion people.TheGreatWalI is visiblefrom space.Thecapital city is (Go round ond help during this stoge.) Beiiing. You con chollengethe You scoreone point for every sentence. Reodout your sentences. on foctuol occurocyond cloim their point. other group,ssentences
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Listen to the countries and write the notionolity ond the longuoge of eoch one. In smoll groups, compore your lists and write down ony words thot ore new to you.
- French,Pulaar, - German) Wolof) Senegal(Senegalese Germany(German Welsh) (Welsh English, Wales Quechua) (Peruvian Spanish, Peru - English, - French) Indian) French, Canada(Canadian France(French ...) Swahili (Kenyan Gikuyu, English, Kenya Azerbaijani) lran(lranian Farsi, (lsraeliArabic) Hebrew, lsrael (Dutch Dutch) Holland - Swedish) - JaPanese) Sweden(Swedish Japan(Japanese - Amharic, - Portuguese) (Ethiopian Tigrigna) Ethiopia (Brazilian Brazil (lrish English, Gaelic) Kurdish) lreland Turkey fl'-urkishTurkish, - German, Romance) Italian. French, (Swiss Switzerland
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oossible.-Ittrlovelsfrom the ciiy where the Gqmeslost took place to the new venue. Toke the next stoge,e.9. iurns to describe athletecarriedthe torch to IstanbuL A A Greek athletecaried it to Tehran' B - A Turkish C - An lranian athletecarriedit to . '.
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work in poirs. Toketurns to tell.your portner your symptoms.Don,t soy the nome of the illness.Seeif your portner con diognosethe ilinessond odviseyo., *rrdt io ao. oeciae whether you trust your new doctor. &* In poirs, discuss h9w you would describe thesewords , e.g.A thermometer is usedto measure temperature. It is oftenplacedin the mouth. , I
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Think of somewords for speciolist do_ctors in your language,e.g.psychiatrist.Guess whot the words ond spellingsoie in English.Look up how to rp"ri oia p-nor1n." the words ond moke surethot the jobs ore the some os you thought. In poirs, tell eoch other somespeciolisotions ond seeif your portner con tell you whot each persondeolswith.
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In poirs, show eoch other your tobles ond discuss whot chongesyou would like to moke to your lifestyles. @ In groups,throw o boll (or o pieceofpoper) to onother student while soying o kind of food or octivity. As you cotch 1t, soy if ttre food or octivlty is rreolthy or unheolthy, e.g. A (throwing) - Crisps. B (cotching) - Unheatthy. (throwing) Swimming. C (cotching) - Healthy.(throwing) Flaying tennis...
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of eventsand tell me whot hoppened. Look ot this sequence -.*-**-'; - contract- applyfor job - interview i losejob - unemployed , office- pay cheque- pay off debts - book holiday i-___*-"-.-"-,-**journey from folling seriouslyill someone's of words to describe In poirs, write o sequence know, ond for words you don_'t me or osk dictionory, o Use through to eventuol recovery. into o norrotive obout on imoginory friend or relative.Swopportners turn your sequence and reod your storiesto eqch other. If you have been in o similor situotion or know someonewho hos, write obout it for homework.
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I,m going to nome a country. Toke turns around the clqss to nome o tourist qttroction there, ond then o new country for the next student, e.9. T - France. A - The Eiffel tower. India. B - The Tai Mahal. America. C - The Grand CanYon.Brazil ... In smoll groups, discusswhich of them you hove seen or would like to see. Add some more things you like to look ot when you trovel, e.g. paintings, streetperformers. On your own, write 100-250 words (choose occording to the level of the closs) obout o time you visited o tourist ottroction.
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In smoll groups,broinstorm words ond phrosesunder thesethree heodings:1) Beforetoke 3) After londing, e.9. off, e.g. iheck-in.2)During the flight, e.g. in-flightentertainmenf. reclaim. baggage Using os mony of the words clsyou con, tell eoch other obout your lost flight, ond oskwhenthe asleep e.g. A - Didn'tyou watchthe fiIm?B - No.I'm always e<rch other qu-estions, film is shown.
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(Ask two studentsto leove the clossroomwhile you give the instructions to the others.) You ore going to nome somethings to toke on holiday, but you con only nome things thot begin with the same letter os your first nome, e.g. Corloscon pock o coke, Riko con pock o roincoot, etc. (Ask the two studentsto come bock in. Don't exploin the rules to them.) Toketurns to nome somethings to toke on holidoy. (Ask eoch student in turn, including the oneswho Ieft the room, whot they wont to toke, osking them eoch by nome. If the studentswho left don't choosesomethingthot beginswith the first letter of their nome, tell them they con't toke thot item, but don't tell them why. After o few rounds, if they hoven't worked out the rule, moke it more obvious by osking studentsto suggestwhot they could toke, or emphosisingthe first lettersof students'nomes.)
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Here ore the onswersto some questions.(Write the onswersin rondom order on the boord.) Copy them os a list and proctisesoying them with o portner. foin onother poir ond ploy os o teom. I'll osk the questionsond the first teom to shout out the right onswergetso point.
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(If the clossis mixed notionolity, reorgonise studentsinto mixed notionolity groupsto comporestotistics. If there is o mojority from one country they can double up.) Tell me how you think your country comporeswith the UK/USA/Australio. (Ask for comporisons from rondom studentsond elicit opproximate numbers eoch time.)
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population, population city,sizein km2,highest of the capital mountain, longest river, per year,average days of sunshine wintertemperature, exchangeratewith the US dollar,
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Workwith o portnerfrom the othergroup.Reod your sentences in rondomorderond see if your portnercclnguess the verb.
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'Getoffmy back!'mean? @ Whot doesthe idiomotic expression In groups,tell eoch other ony idioms in your longuogewhich useports of the body. (While they ore doing this, write up the word list ond the gopfill sentences on the boord.) Fill the gaps with one of thesewords.Somewords con be usedmore thon once.Then discuss whot the sentences meqn. stomach,hait headless, cheeky,guts, eye,face, hand, legged,eyes,nosy,tooth, elbow :
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Think of o recent time when one of these idioms would hove been oppropriote for you. Tell the rest of the group. @ Drow o person in the middle of o piece of poper. Draw orrows to different ports of the body ond for eoch one write on idiom using thot port of the body. (Provide on advanced leorner's dictionory for this.) Leove your drowing on the toble ond look ot the other groups' drowings.
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In small groups, tell eoch other who you toke after in your fomily, with referenceto your physicol choracteristics,e.g. I've got my mother'seyes. I've got big hands like my grandfather.
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on one piece In groups,write fifteen phrosol verbson small piecesof poper,with the verb swop them ond piles seporate in two ihem t<eep qnd another. on the preposition of poper to turn turns toke with onothe, gto,rp.Spreodthe piecesof poper orll on the toble ond ond verb resulting the use you con qnd one ,r.rb. S.or" o ioint if over one p-r-ep6sition in o sentence' PrePosition the (voriotion: Studentswrite the verb on one side of the poper o^ndthe preposition on sideup verb group, some of the middle other side.ptocetfre piecesof poper in o pile in the the on whot is guess to turns toke groups, students their ond someprepositionsideup.În student' cls onother guess sqme the moke not ion They poper. of piece other side if e'octr -o over' Whoever got it correctgetsto When they hove ol ftoa o g.tutt, they turn the poper give definition of the phrosol verb. If he/she pop"t pt&ia"a he/shecon keep the i;; "1 gets it right, getsto keepthe piece of who&er go ond con,t, other studentsconhove o to the bottom of the pile' The iigoes verb, or prep6sition the guesses poper. lf no one Dersonattheendwiththemostpiecesofpoperisthewinner.)
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(write these eight poirs of sentences o^n the boord, gopped ond the phrosal verbs in rondom order in o th".top.) Eoch poir of sentences ,^6t itr" ro-; ph;;;;lllJu, or,." titerolly . ]t:t ?1. ond once non-literolly.-In poirsi completethe sentences with the correctform of the phrosol verbsond mork eoch'sentence literoior non_literol.
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b) He turnedup latefor the meeting. b) | lookedup his numberin the bo-ok. b) Pleaseput the cat our. b) | ran into a tree in the oarr. b) Hang up and try againlater. b) Whenthe planetook off we relaxed. b) He brokedown the door with a sledgehammer. b)We got on well and decidedto be friends.
Discuss the meonings of the nonliteral verbsond checkyour understonding with o dictionory. Add onother five poirs of sertencesto your list, one literal -'- ond ----- one J non-literol. Choose from theseverbsond look them up in ifre aicfionory.
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I ootover iheinitiat shock,r brereo to iiLJ iiro, oeing tai", A;;g stay y'royto on afteiwork. Then it tuineJ outshe*is aci*iV ligry oecause I a ctient I hadtakenon haddecided pull
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Compore your list with o portner to seeif he/she got the some number, ond the iome phrosol verbs.I'll soy it ogoin for you to check. b In g,roups, copPose^.o monologuefor one of the following using thesephrosol verbs ond ony others you think fit. Choose6ne person to do the *riii"-g o"donother to reod Lri yo* monologueot the end. A relationship: go out with, fallfor, get on (with), fall out (with),make up, chat up, split up, run into,bringup, lookafter A telephone conversation: look up, get througnto, cut off, put through,go on, run out of, maKeout, talk about, call back, hang up A journey:set off, hord up, take off, check in, stop offlover, come back, pick up, get over, nang around,breakdown, run out of
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Rooms p. In groups,broinstorm os mony rooms os you con in one minute ond write them os o list. Imogine you've just moved from o small flqt into o big house.I'm going to reod out some piecesof iurniture. You only hove one of each thing. Decidewhich is the bestroom to put them. Write the word next to thot room on your list. . i i table,shelf,cupboard, hairdrier, lamp,TV,microwave, rug, bed, chair, carpet, bookshelf, hi-fi,mirror,DVD player, wardrobe,cot, pot plant,curtains, painting, chestof drawers piano,rubbish sofa,computer, bin,filingcabinet,
Put o tick next to ony of the things you've got ot your ploce. Chooseyour fovourite two them to the group. items ond describe p' In three groups,broinstorm somethings thot you might find in theserooms. Group A, the sitting room; Group B, the bedroom;Group C: the kitchen. your list to the next group ond seeif you con odd onything to the one thot is possed Pass to you. ffi-lM Realia race The first I'm going to sctysomeodjectives. Everybodystond in the middle of the clossroom. by thot odiectivegetso point' The described personto coll out somethingin the clossroom person with the most points ot the end is the winner. ; thin,round tiny,yellow, soft,useful, blue,bright,big, sharp,warm,new,old, square, _**_*_-******j
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Imogine you ore sitting in your fovourite room ot home. Write o very detoiled lisj oj everytfring you con see.Wiite one of these letters next to eoch item on your list: F if it is a pieceof furniture, A if it is on opplionce or fixture or O if it is on ornoment. In poirs, comporeyour lists.Imogine you ore moving into o housetogether.Agreewhich items from your lists you would toke. Agree on o list of ten items betweenyou.
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Work in two teoms to ploy nouhts ond crosses. Tqke turns to chooseo squcrre. To win it you have to moke o compound noun with the word in the squore,e.g. oih - t oy.
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Look up the words in the noughts ond crosses grid in o leqrners' dictionory. Moke o note of ony useful expressions, ond write exomples.
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In groups, you hove two minutes to broinstorm o list of deportments in o deportment store ond two things thot con be bought in each deportment. Decidewhich floor your deportments ore on. Then poir up with o student from onother group. A, imogine you crrein o deportment store trying to find some of the things on your ljyd:"J list. Ask studentB where to oo. Student B, tell student A wh6re to go, including directions vio the lift/escolotor. Then swap roles.
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look at art, keep fit, do eveningclasses, take a child, read a book Tell each other obout the lost time you did eoch thing, e.g.where you went, who you were with, etc. @ In smoll groups,clgree on o list of the ten most importont omenitiesfor moking o town on enjoyobleploce to live.
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I've got o list of twenty-onethings you con seeon o city street,oport from shopsond other buildings. In two teoms,toke turns to guessthe things on my list ond scoreo point every time you get one correct.
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Work in teoms.You hove 5OOto spendon the vocobulory in this list. I'll ouction eoch word' Bid ogoinst the other teoms. Unfortunotely, some of the words ore bodly spelt ond ore in foct worth nothing. At the end, the teom with the highest number of correctly spelt words is the winner. In the event of o drow, the teom with t*hemost money left wins. ' (Hereis o selectionof words.The correctspellingsore given in brockets.)
accross (across), necessary (because), bicause foreign, (either), iether forly,buisness (business), receipt, government, wendesday people, adress(address), 0iVednesday), tommorow (tomorrow), biscuit, (beginning), begining yesierday,'beautifull (beautiful),' neighbour, restorant (restaurant), (cigareiie), cigarrette sentence
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(Select25 recently leornt vocobulory items ond write the initiol lettersof eoch word in the grid.) Work in two teoms. Teom A hos to win o line of letters from top to bottom. Teom B hos to win o line of letters from left to riqht. The line con go in ony direction,but not diogonolly.lhe teoms take turns to choosea letter. I,ll give you o definition of o word thot begins with thot letter. If you guessthe word, you win thot squclre.If you get it wrong, the other teom gets o go. If they get it right, they win it. If not, the letter isbut ofbounds. Once o squorehos been won or gone out of bounds,no teom con chooseit.
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Wordtrack
Ploy in groups of three. Copy this grid ond write o five_letter word in the middle. Toke tums to odd o letter, mokinq new words. Scoreone point for eoch letter in the new word"s vou moke. Look ot this exomple.The storting word is TABL{. Ployer 1 odds C ond getscable and cat _ eight points. He/She doesn'tget ony points for able,at or tab beiouie thev don,t include the C. ployer 2 adds( ond gets back and,taik _ eight points. I.fyo-" spot o word o ployer hos missed,you get the points for thot word. Ployer 2 notices cab - three exiro points.
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Work in poirs ond seehow mony words you con moke from the lettersin Wordsearch.
(For higher level classes.) foin onother poir. Useyour words in o short story.
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Code words In groups, look bock through your notes ond selecttwenty words thot you hove learnt. Write them os o list, but jumble the lettersup so that eoch word is on onogrom, e.g. messoge- esgames. Write o clue for eoch word, e.g. The first letter is 'm'; it's a noun. Possyour list to onother group. Can you unjumble the words thot ore possedto your group? Spellbound Toke turns to soy o word. The only rules ore: 1) Your word must include the letter C. 2) You moy not soy the someword thot onother studenthas olreody said. (Any studentwho con't give o word is out of the gcrme, ond the winner is the lost studentleft.) (When most of the studentshove hod o go, chongethe first rule ond then chonge it regulorly. Here ore some rules. If the clossfind this too eosy,you could give them severol rules ot the sometime.)
1 a word including the letterC 2 a word including two vowels 3 a word including the letterS
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 a word with two consonants together a word with a doubleletter a word with two or more syllables a word including the letterH a word endingwith the letterD a word containing at leastthreedifferent vowels a word with a silentletter
(Voriotion:Stipulotea port of speech, e.g.An adiectiveincluding the letter C.)
fil Pffiffiffi Favourite sports

Look ot this diogram. Whot's the sport ond what cotegories do the circlesrepresent? (Answer:cricket.Equipment,ploces,events,outstondingcompetitorsond rules.)
Allcontestants mustwearwhite.
Work in groups of studentswho hove the some fovourite sport ond moke o similor diogram for your sport.Don't write the cotegorynomes.Swopdiagromswith onother group to guessthe cotegories.
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Serve and volley Work in groupsof three. Chooseo sport and toke turns to give o relotedword, e.g.tennis serve, court,Iove.Ilte lost personto think of o word getso point ond chooses the next sport.
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hockey, squash, boxing, skiing, baseball, 1 football, j
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goes Scoring like tennis:15,30,40,game.
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Choose one of these heodings ond write o list of different sports. Write o few notes describing any experience you hove hod of ploying or wotching them, e.g. footboll Iast Saturdav in the oark.
sports,taOle watersporls,animal sports, { wintersports,decathlon, ; motor sports,ball sporls,fightingsports,extremesporls

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In poirs, comporeyour lists,ond tell eoch other obout your experiences.
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of December. write the dotes down in words, e.g. the twenty-fifth
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What'sthe date today? What was the date yesterday? What date was it lastTuesday? What'sthe date on Thursday? What date was it lastThursdav?
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What was the date threeweeks ago today? What are the datesof this course/term? What'sthe date the day aftertomorrow? What date is the next exam? What daie will it be a week on Saturday?
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Compore your onswerswith onother poir. !'p'I'm going to dictotethe dotesof the ostrologicolsigns.Moke o note of the signsond the dotes,in numbers,e.g.Aries: 21/3 - 20/4.
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Aries: 21 Mar- 20 Apr Taurus: 21 Apr- 21 May Cancer: 23 Jun 23 Jul Leo:24Jul- 23 Aug 24 Ocl- 22 Nov LiOra: 24 Sep- 23 Oct Scorpio: 21 Jan- "19 Capricorn: 22 Dec- 20 JanAquarius: Feb
22 May- 22 Jun Gemini: I Ykgo:24 Aug- 23 Sep l Sagittarius: 23 Nov- 21 Dec I Pisces: 20 Feb* 20 Mar I
Toke turns to tell me your sign ond when the sign is, e.g. My sign is Aries.That'sfrom the twenty-first of March to the twentiethof April
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Clocks
(Drow three clock foces on the boord, eoch showing o different time. Ask different students ot rondom to soy the times. Then tell them thot the clocks ore fast by twenty minutes. Elicit the new times. Chonge the times ogoin ond continue until everyone hos hod o few goes. If the closs is mixed notionolity, osk them whot the time is in their home towns.)
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lmportant dates @ Work in smoll groups. Tell eoch other obout some importont dotes in your country,s history. When ore thesecelebrotions? ' j i Christmas Day (25thDecember) AprilFoolsDay (1stAprit) Day in the USA (athJuty) lndeOendence Midsummer's Day (21stJune)
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GuyFawkes Night(5thNovember) St Valentine's Day(14thFebruary) NewYear's Eve(31stDecember) Halloween (3'1 st October)
Compareyour onswerswith onother group. f w3rk in smoll groups. Write down these dotes os o list on the left of your poper. (Dictate the datesin brocketsbelow.). Listen to thesehistoric events,ond write them next to the correct dotes. (Reodthem out in rondom order.)
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landings happened in Normandy. (6thJune.1944) Lhg?-OuV NeilArmstrolg wasthefirstmanto walkon the Moon.(2oth July1969) christopher columbus reached thewest lndies. (i2th dctob", i+oz1 Kennedy jghn-.F wasassassinated. (22nd November 1963) Thefirsttelephone callwasmade. (6thMarch1876) There wasa terrorist attack on theTwin Towers, Newyork.(11th september 2oo1) Thewrightbrothers madethefirstpowered flight. (17thDecember 1903) Yuri Gegarin wasthefirstmanin space. ('j2th April1961) William theConqueror (t+tfrOctoOer invaded England. tbOO;
Compore your onswers with onothergroup.
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Personaltime !w In poirs,oskand onswer questions oboutthese things.(If students hovegot children, they contolk obouttheminsteod.)
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oayyouwereborn,thetimeof dayyouwereborn,the month youwereborn, ; : Il]" the season youwereborn,theyearyouwereborn,the decade vouwereborn
&* In poirs, osk and onswerquestionsusing this toble. What do you do in the morning in the afternoon at night on Sundays? Wednesdays? Saturdays? Christmas day?
P" Corry out o survey of the rest of the closs.Chooseone of thesesubjects ond find out how long eoch studentspendsdoing it eoch doy. Moke o list, with thosewho spend the most time ot the top ond thosewho spendthe leost ot the bottom. watching eating, sitting W sleeping, on publictransport, i speaking on the phone,cooking, : exercising, walking, relaxing, : reading,drinkingtea or coffee,studying,uJinga cofrtputer " i ! Reportsomeof your resultsto the closs.(Elicitthe extremes.) 148 700Classroom Activities
|lffiWiM What time do you ...?

When you heor thesewords,quickly moke o questionobout whot time I do the thing, e.g. (Answer two troin - What time do you catch the train to work?Make a note of my clnswers. questionswith lies ond the rest truthfully.)
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get up, lunch break,home, bed, breakfast, bus/train f worl?lesson, :
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In poirs, osk eoch other questionsin the some wot e.g.A - What time doyou get up? B - I get up at eleven.
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Duration lETffiffi$El-Gt Put thesetime periods in order, from the shortestto the longest. *-*-.-----*I i"--*-*-**-*' ] an hour,a century a decade,a week, ayear,a month, i
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Write o How long...Zquestionfor five of them ond toke turns to osk your portner, e.g.A How long is oneyear?B - A year is 365 days. In poirs, write some more questionswith How long doesit take Qou) to ... ? Moke sure you then swop portnersond osk your new portner your both hove o copy of the questions, questions,e.g. A - How long doesit take to boil an egg?B - It takesfour minutes.
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Time-saving devices we use for doing ordinory jobs. Put In smoll groups,broinstorm ten time-sovingdevices them in order from the most to the leost useful.Comporelists with onother group.
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Seasons
to eoch group.) In your s' (Divide the clossinto four groupsond ollocoteone seoson groups,brainstorm sentences the seosons in the UK, e.g.In springthe birdsstart to describe to sing. Theflowerscomeout. Group A, write obout the spring. Group B, write obout the summer. Group C, write obout the outumn. Group D, write about the winter. your descriptionto the next group ond seeif you con odd to the one thot is possed to Poss your group. e.g.I like Tell your group somethingyou like and somethingyou dislike obout each seoson, the way the daysget longerin spring. (If it's o mixed Comporethe seosons in your country with thosein the UKiUSA/Austrqlio. betweentheir countries,e.g.In my country, notionolity closs,osk them to find comporisons in the summer.) it's muchcolder are moremosquitoes in the winter.There $e" Work in two teoms.Listento this list of words.For eoch one, shout out which seosonin the UK it belonqsto. The first teom to onswercorrectlywins o point.
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j snow, planting ice-cream, hot, cool,cuckoo.darkness, flowers, icicles, sunbathing, j birds, red leaves, football. cancing. harvesi, April showers, rain, migration, thunder, heating, fog, barbecues. daifooils, long nights central lambs, skiing, mushrooms, I cricket,
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IEffi-Li.l Weather words

On your own, write some words thot you ossociotewith the sun, roin ond snow, e.g. sunbgach,volleyball, holiday,,Greece. Compore your lists with o partner, exploining why"you choseyour words and ploces.
ffiffi_ilul Weather forecast

*" (Drow pictures on the boord to elicit rain, sun, wind, cloud,snow and fog.) In pairs, copy this toble ond add os mony expressions os you con.
Noun
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SUN
Adjective
Verb
It's raining. It rains a lot here.
It'srainy. It'sa rainycountry.
wind cloud
SNOW
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@ In poirs, discuss thesequestions. What is the weatherforecastfor the next couoleof davs? What kinds of weatherare typicalat different times of ihe year? What are the pointsof the compassand the pointsin between? Work in five groups and write a weother forecostfor these ports of the UK. Decide whot kind of weother you wont first. (Moke sure thot o wide voriety is included between the five groups,e.9. snow in the Highlonds of Scotlondond worm sunshinein the south.) Group A - EostAnglio ond the south-eost Group B - The south ond south-west Group C - Wolesond Northern Irelond Group D - The Midlonds ond the north-eost Group E - Scotlondond the north of Englond (Draw o mop of the UK on the boord. Ask one student to come to the boord. The five groups take turns to give their forecostsond the student ot the boord drows weother icons occordingly.) (Voriotion:Chongethe locotion to the country the classore studying in.)
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Natural disasters
Tell me some different kinds of noturol disaster,ond o recent exomple of one thot hos hoppenedin the world. forestfire,tidal wave, hurricane, avalanche, earthquake, volcaniceruotion In smoll groups, discussthese questions.
i vvnat happens wheneachof thesenatural disasters occurs? Are any of them a result of human activity? f ! lJ^'n, io thn al^|.\^l ^li*^+^ ^h^^^;^ô
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Tell eoch other obout the most severe weather or noturol eventyou hove experienced.
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I , m g o i n g t o t e l l y o u o s t o r y , b u t w i t h o u t s p e a k i n g . Iond , I l d you r o w con onth e b oit o rdown' dandmime. write you tell me eoch line of the story.iiilt coirect,I'f nod
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i for I turned blowing' anotrt" windstarled houror so it got ctoudy I Afteran"unv,.t-]uo lighting thundeiand Oo*nOtutT,?li19 in a neavi' i homebut got caught andnlgner' seagot higher the on waves Th-e started. I
got a lot worse' In smoll groups,continue the story' e'g' Thestorm in bad weother' got cought Tell the rest oi your group obout o time you
*;ild"s. #;rs rh;.;ffi;;'il"s ior "',dffibi'd. the beach. along wa|k a dog the iooro ano breakfist
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Adiectives
urnstothrowobolltoeochotherondfollowthisseq uence:1)soy "orro.iot"a Stond in a circle. Toke t with the odjectiveond noun' o sentence moke 3) noun; an saY on odiective;2) ond so on' e.9. A (throwing) - Green' B (cotching) - Tree' are verygreenin the summer' C icotchin6j - The trees D (cotching) Hot "' (Variotion:Studentsonlyhovetosoy"d'::l]:i1:.rlt,ltreVmustbeginwiththelostletter lovely"') wonderfuI' et e'g'green''new' of the previousodjectiv
E-l-PTffil Collocations follow theseodverbs'e'9' devilishly hof' In pairs, think of on oppropriate adiectiveto give them out at this stage') (Suggestedo,,,*"" o" iho*" in brickets' Don't
; m;;*il; *d(.6=*'#;v*t'11:l+;+ rylqry*^"* I i pregnant); defeated' guarded, (ouilt, nuuuirv t t1nown,!lr:ti"i#'

. ; (injured, randomly (lit'colouredj; """"bt"ol; ill,.concerned;;-o''gAtty i serlousry (beautiful) stunningly exaggbrateb); WfOf''("*it"d, i (setectefu;
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I',mgoingtoreodouttheodjectiv.,ot'-ylist'Decidewhichodverbstheygowith'(Reod them out in o different order') Writeoshortstoryusingotleostfiveoftheodverb/odjectivecombinotions.
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Shout out the word that goeswith it' (Do this crson open clossoctivity.) I will soy o word' and "'S - butter e.9.T - bread il**-:-** i s o c K s , k n i v e s , s w e e t , c a t s , b a c o n ' w a r 'husband' s a l t ' l e f theaven' ' h i g h ' srock on'pen'right'fish'sun'1 ou"t' thundel i black,hands,gin, here,Ot"ui' "-j
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poirs os you con ftom memory' The teom thot work in three teoms. write os mony of the remembersthe most is the winner'
Vocabulary 151
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Links
Look ot this word ossociation choin.
- run- bus- legs I book-write- pen- ink-octopus

- cinema- Hollywood - actor- play- game ... I tict<et Suggest someconnections betweenthe words,e.g. Ink is the stuffyouput in a pen. In groups,continue the choin. You con soy onything but you hove to exploin the connectionif someonequeriesit.
lElffiEigffiH-u;l Think of a use

Work in poirs. Moke connections by soying whqt the things in the first column con do with the things in the second,e.g.A mouse can usea brickto hidebehind. mouse,waiter,baby,doctor,teacher, you, prisoner monkey, wife, farmer,
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When you hove finished,swop portnerswith another poir ond comporethe woy you connected things.
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Work in groupsof four. Chooseo letter eoch:A, B, C ond D. I'm going to reod out some setsof four words.A tokesthe first, B the second,etc. Discuss who doesnot belong in the group each time. Try to persuode your group thot you should stoy in. You hove o minute beforeI read the next set of words,e.g. tomoto, oronge,pototo, onion. S - Wedecided to throw out the potato because it's the most boring. '1 garden, flower,grass,tree 2 book,page,line,word 3 hat, scarf,shirt,gloves 4 piano,guitar, cello,trumpet 5 l, we, him,they
A hlr re nreen rnrl vellOw
7 8 9 10 11 12
iron,copper,brass,gold iron,mop, hoover, broom skinny, slender, lithe, thin wire,where,wear,ware in, on, up, opposite table,chair,cooker,sofa
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I om going to reod out somewords.Shout out the opposites. You moy hove to exploin why you think they ore opposites. When you have hod o go, keep quiet until everyoneelsehos hod one.
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Work in poirs. Agreewhot thesethings are port of, e.g. page- book. --"-"--* -:****l i-, leg, wheel, MP, fork, modem, ! uncle, house, verb, star, day, i minute, bird, tree, Oone, word, soldier, student, wave, brick i !
Choose o few of the words ond see how mony more words you con odd to them, e.g. poge - book - collection - Iibrary - university.
Index
2 3 , 4 2 ,5 7 Deduction 48_s0 7, 47, 60, 62 Definitions 7LO, L22,127_L2g 57, 65, 7g-79, 91.,L1,4, r.J.7, Demonstrativeodiectivesond pronouns 79_g0 l2o_12'1,, r42, 1.5t Describing people 14, 50-52,57, 70, Adverbs 65-66 78, g6, gg, LzO,L21,, I24 Adverbs of frequency 66, LO3 Describing ploces L7,SZ, 53,69, g6, gg, Advertisements 7, 39,46, 57, 70 1L6,72-1., 133,L42 Advice Describing 2'1.,4345,75,99 things !4, SO_SZ,79, gZ, j,24. 142 All/None Directions lt6 53 Alphobet 2L, 92, gg, '1.23, Educotion 1.37, 1,44_L46 ll_12, 60, t1.g Animols 9 , 6 9 , 9 6 , 1 2 1 . _ 1 2 2 Employment 4!,56,59, L1.4, l}g_1,2g,t4t Apostrophe s Enough 67, 95, 1,30 LI7 Arithmetic Environment 138 lZ_13,4L. 1L7 Articles Equol opportunities 67_68 Zg A s . . .a s Exclomotions 71. LO2,LZZ, 129 Be/Getusedto Explonotion 6469 SO,56, g7, gg, 92, lOO,LL9 Both/Neither Fomily go,32, s0, L3o-131,139 93,116 Britoin Fomouspeople 1.9,29,72 gg,67, g7 1,g, ZO, 3'1,, Business Foshion 24 lg_L4, I24_t2S Buying ond selling Festivols 25,4546,47, L43 rc, L4g Cors Food 40,47,55 14='1.6, 45, 52, LO6,131_133 Cotegories For/Since L2-J., t23, 147 1oo_101 Childhood Furniture 17, 1.L9, Llg 7,142_l4g 'J..3-1.4, Clothes Future 47, 96, 124_.1,25 gO_g1, g3, 97 16_17,7g, Collocations Future 66,'],.40 , continuous t43,'1.5L L7,g7 Colours Future perfect 125_126 St Comporatives Geogrophy 17,6g,72,96, lOS,l^g3_134, 69_72, L37 Lg7 Comploining 4647, LL3, 1L4, LL7 Gerunds gLgZ, lgs Compoundnouns Gettingto know you gg, 54,7'1., L4O,143 gZ, gg, IO7, Computers 1L-J., t'1,2,1,L5,L3L, L48 33,126_127 Going to Conditionols - first 72_74 83 Hobits Conditionols- second L5,22, 34,66, LO3, 74_75 1,49 Have Conditionols - third 76 84 Have/Get something done Confusing words t27 84 Heolth Conjunctions 18-19, 43, 44,135_136 42, 77_79 Heolth ond sofety Copular verbs g7 50,7g-79, g'1., 43,60 Heroes ond heroines Countqble ond uncountoble lo5, 1.L7 t9 (My) Country L7,20,29,64,69, g6, Lg3,137 History lg_20, 45, L17, 74g Hobbies Crime ond punishment 8-'1.0, 2 2 , 3 4 ,4 2 17,49 Holidoys Criticising 27-22, 62, 97, too, LI3, 196_137 47, 1.17 Hotels Culfure LO-'[-L, L6, 3r, 36, 69, 134 62 Houses Customsand troditions ond rooms 7, 52, 96, 1.L6, Lzg, 742 L0, L4g Idioms Dotes g , 1 3 , 9 6 ,7 3 9 t47_148 Indirect Debates g , L 2 ,1 . 9 L questions , g , 2 9 , 3 0 ,4 L 108 lndex 153 Ability Accommodqtion Adiectives
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84-85, 104 33, 1.26-1.27 Instructions 55-56 Internet L27 Inventions 24, 32, 55, 59, L4g Interviews 9 , 1 3 , 4 r , 5 4 , 5 8t,O 7 I wish/ If only 75,76 41, 56-58, 59,128-129, I4L fobs Longuoges L34 Leisure 22-23,'1.36, 1.44 Like 85_87 Likes ond dislikes 5 2 , 5 4 ,6 9 , 7 1 . , 8 1 , 85, 86, 1.-1.-1, 146 Look like 87 Love 3 1 ,3 2 , 9 9 , l l 3 , 1 , 3 L Mime 5 1 ,6 5 ,9 3 , 9 6 , 1 4 01 , 51 Money 2 1 , 2 4 - 2 5 , 2 94 ,6 Monologues 25-26 Much/Many LOs, L 0 6 ,t t 7 Music 23 Necessity 57, 58*59 Neither/Either 115 Newspopers 27, gg, gg Numbers L33,137-138 Obligotion 60-61 Offers 61-63,gl., g5 Opposites 152 Ports of the body 135, 1.38-1.40 Possive 84, 87-88 Postcontinuous 88_90 Postporticiples 9 7 , g g ,g t , g g Postperfect 88,91-92 Postsimple 1.9, 20, 8g-9O,92-95 Permission 63-64 Personolpronouns ro4 Phrosolverbs 140-L4l Plqns 79,93,97 Politics 1,2-L3, 1 8 ,2 8 - 3 0 ,4 1 , 7 2 , 7 5 , 9 3 ,I 1 , 7 Possessive 79,95 's Possessive 67,79,95,130 Prediction 16,90, g3 Prepositions 51, 53, 82, t4O Present continuous 65,96-9g, L3O Presentperfect 88, 98-L02 Present simple 102_103 Prohibition 60-61 Pronouns 7g-go, 95, Io4 Proverbs 8 , 2 5 , 3 L ,3 9 ,4 4
Informotion technology
Infinitives
6 7 ,1 2 7 lo5--to6, tl7 36,39,54,59 6,0 , 6 2 , 105,L06-108, tL2, L18 Question togs ro7, log Reflexivepronouns 704 Register 62 Regret 45,76 Relotionships 7, 30-32, 43, !!3, 1,3O-I91., L41. Relotiveclouses ll}-ll2 Reportedspeech 112-113 Requests 61-63, g5 Restouronts LS, IOg, IL4 Sayings 8 , 2 5 , 3 1 , 3 9 ,4 4 , 8 6 School L1,,lZ, LLg Science 16, IB,3Z-39 Seqsons I49 Senses 79 Sequencing 55,78,91,,93,94 9,5 Shopes 51 Shops 45,46,47, 53, L43-144 so tr4 So/Too 115-116 Spelling 14+-146 Speculotion 48-50,76,80 Spontaneous decisions 81 Sport 33-94,72, I34, 146--1,47 Stiil/Yet/Already/lust 101 Stories 9, 34-36,89,93,103,145,151 Studyskills 12 Superlotives B, Zl-72, I2B, I3g Superstitions 74 Survivol 97, 76 Technology 16, t8, gZ-,33,56, !49 Telephoning 46,57,64, L4l Television 38-39 't There is/are tOS, 16, L1.7 , I4Z Time 39,92,94, 147-t49 Too ll7 Trovel 2t-22, 40, 69, 9L,100,103, 136,L4l Tronsport 40,'Lg6 Usedto ZO, ll7-]jg Verb potterns 87, 82,85, 104,113 't49-1.51 Weother Whatever/Whoever ... rt2 Word associotion 40, 125,'1.51-152 Work 41,56-58, rL4, t28-129,1.41 Would like 85 Quontifiers Question forms
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