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    This document provides teaching materials for a grammar and speaking activity involving present simple affirmative and negative statements. Students first match verbs with nouns to form collocations. They then write 12 statements about themselves using the collocations, with half being true and half false. Partners take turns reading statements and guessing if they are true or false, scoring a point for each correct guess. The goal is to practice forming and identifying present simple sentences.

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    Fact or Fiction Present Simple

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    This document provides teaching materials for a grammar and speaking activity involving present simple affirmative and negative statements. Students first match verbs with nouns to form collocations. They then write 12 statements about themselves using the collocations, with half being true and half false. Partners take turns reading statements and guessing if they are true or false, scoring a point for each correct guess. The goal is to practice forming and identifying present simple sentences.

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    This document provides teaching materials for a grammar and speaking activity involving present simple affirmative and negative statements. Students first match verbs with nouns to form collocations. They then write 12 statements about themselves using the collocations, with half being true and half false. Partners take turns reading statements and guessing if they are true or false, scoring a point for each correct guess. The goal is to practice forming and identifying present simple sentences.

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    Fact or Fiction Present Simple

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    This document provides teaching materials for a grammar and speaking activity involving present simple affirmative and negative statements. Students first match verbs with nouns to form collocations. They then write 12 statements about themselves using the collocations, with half being true and half false. Partners take turns reading statements and guessing if they are true or false, scoring a point for each correct guess. The goal is to practice forming and identifying present simple sentences.

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    TEACHER’S NOTES

    WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Fact or Fiction?

    Activity Type Introduction


    Grammar and Speaking In this present simple true or false guessing game, students
    Game: matching, forming make collocations and then use them in a guessing game where
    and reading sentences, they make true or false present simple affirmative and negative
    true or false, guessing statements.
    (pair work)
    Procedure
    Focus Give each student a copy of the worksheet.
    Present simple
    Students begin by matching verbs with nouns or noun phrases.
    affirmative and negative
    statements
    Exercise A - Answer key
    Verb-noun collocations
    1. h 2. l 3. i 4. f 5. b 6. k
    7. d 8. a 9. j 10. e 11. g 12. c
    Aim
    Next, students write 12 present simple affirmative and negative
    To match verbs and statements about themselves using the verb-noun collocations
    nouns together to from the first exercise.
    make collocations and
    then make true and Half the sentences should be true and half should be false.
    false present simple
    affirmative and negative When the students have finished, divide them into pairs.
    statements using the
    collocations. If possible, put the students together with people they don’t know
    very well.

    Preparation Students then take it in turns to read one of their present simple
    Make one copy of the statements and their partner decides if it's true or false.
    worksheet for each
    student. Students score one point for each correct guess.

    The student with the most points at the end of the game is the
    Level winner.

    Elementary (A1-A2)

    Time
    30 minutes

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    PRESENT SIMPLE AFFIRMATIVE AND NEGATIVE

    WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Fact or Fiction?

    A. Match the verbs with the nouns or noun phrases.

    Verbs Nouns / Noun Phrases

    1. read ....... a. Japanese food / Vietnamese food / junk food / pizza

    2. work ....... b. a cat / a dog / two children / a big family

    3. go ....... c. the radio / hip hop music / classical music / pop music

    4. play ....... d. karate / the housework / my homework at night / yoga

    5. have ....... e. Mandarin / English / Spanish / Thai

    6. watch ....... f. the guitar / football / cards / tennis / the drums

    7. do ....... g. in a big house / in a small apartment / in the city centre

    8. eat ....... h. fashion magazines / English books / a newspaper every day

    9. drink ....... i. cycling / to the gym / to the park / to the beach

    10. speak ....... j. tea / coffee / beer / orange juice

    11. live ....... k. horror films / sports programmes / YouTube / the news

    12. listen to ....... l. for a large company / in an office / in the evening / hard

    B. Now, write 12 present simple affirmative and negative statements about yourself
    using the verb-noun collocations above. Half the sentences should be true and half
    should be false.

    1. ............................................................ 7. ............................................................

    2. ............................................................ 8. ............................................................

    3. ............................................................ 9. ............................................................

    4. ............................................................ 10. ...........................................................

    5. ............................................................ 11. ...........................................................

    6. ............................................................ 12. ...........................................................

    C. In pairs, take it in turns to say one of your present simple statements. Your partner
    has to guess if it's true or false. Score one point for each correct guess. The student
    with the most points at the end of the game wins.

    Example:

    A: I work in the evening. B: I think that's true.


    A: No, it's false. I work in the morning. B: I don't listen to hip hop music.
    A: I think that's false. B: Yes, that's right. I don't listen to hip hop
    music. I listen to pop music.

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