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More tested lessons, suggestions, tips and techniques which have all

worked for ETp readers. Try them out for yourself – and then send us
your own contribution. Don’t forget to include your postal address.
All the contributors to It Works in Practice in this issue of ETp will
receive a copy of Writing Skills, by Sam McCarter and Norman Whitby,
published by Macmillan. Macmillan have kindly agreed to be sponsors
of It Works in Practice for this year.

Get in the picture Trendy sentences


As teachers, we all know how difficult it is to keep The worksheet on page 39 can be used to practise the language
teenage students talking in English. This is a brief used to describe trends in charts and graphs. This is particularly
ten-minute task which is aimed at getting them to talk useful for students taking the IELTS exam, as they will need this
freely. It could be used as a warm-up activity or as the skill in the Writing paper.
main speaking focus of the lesson. You will need to find
Make copies of the worksheet and cut each one up into a set of
some interesting pictures on topics your students are
separate cards. There are several ways you can use these.
likely to be interested in, such as technology, society,
gender, nature, etc. Ideally, some of the pictures should 1 Use the cards for a standard gapfill. Give pairs of students
be a little strange, with odd colours or cropped so the one set of cards and ask them to work together to match the
perspective is different from the original. words with the correct sentences.

Use a computer and projector to display the pictures 2 Play a competitive game.
on a screen.
a) Put the students in groups of four. Divide one set of cards
Try to elicit as much vocabulary as possible about per group into two piles: sentences and words. Give each
each picture. student in a group five sentence cards. The word cards are
put face down in a pile in the centre of the table.
Then, get the students to imagine that each picture is
a mirror and that they are, therefore, inside the b) The first student turns over a word card. If it matches any
picture. of their sentences they put the sentence and the card
down on the table, and the other students have to agree
Get them to tell a story about where they are and
that it is a match. If it doesn’t match, the card is put
why, and to describe what they can see around them.
face up on the table next to the pile of word cards.
You can also ask them to give each picture a title and
c) The next student can take the face-up card if it matches
say why they have chosen it.
one of their sentences and put the completed sentence
Finally, they can talk about whether they like or on the table, again getting the others to agree that it
dislike any of the pictures, and why. fits. If it doesn’t match, they take the next card from
Graciela Juretich the face-down pile. If that card matches one of their
Guatraché, Argentina sentence, they put the completed sentence down on the
table. If it doesn’t, they put the card down face up next
to the pile of word cards.

IT WORKS IN PRACTICE d) Each time a completed sentence is placed on the table,


Do you have ideas you’d like to share with colleagues the other students have to agree that it is correct.
around the world? Tips, techniques and activities; The winner is the student who completes their
simple or sophisticated; well-tried or innovative; something sentences first.
that has worked well for you? All published contributions Alexandra Jelobenko
receive a prize! Write to us or email: Almaty, Kazakhstan
[email protected]

38 • Issue 92 May 2014 • ENGLISH TEACHING professional • www.etprofessional.com •


Trendy sentences
In recent years, there have been wild The financial crisis has meant that there
........... in the production of sugar in the has been a sudden ........... in research
fluctuations decrease
region because of unstable weather investment.
conditions.

The ........... in ice cream consumption


DVD sales went ........... suddenly when
during the summer months was
people started watching films online.
attributed to the fact that the weather fluctuation down
was boiling hot one minute and freezing
cold the next.

The development of new products Sales of flat-screen TVs tend to ...........


dropped ........... when the entire significantly before major sporting
sharply rise
research team was headhunted by a events such as the Olympics.
rival company.

Sales of games consoles levelled There was a ........... decrease in the


........... at the end of the Christmas sales of bananas following newspaper
off sudden
shopping period. reports of poisonous spiders found in
banana crates.

Sales of the company’s products


There has been a slow ........... in the
fluctuated considerably over the year,
import of manufactured goods as the
decline but the CEO said he was happy to upward
country’s own manufacturing industry
announce that the trend was generally
has started to recover.
........... .

Sales of the Talking Hamster reached a


The quality of the food in motorway
........... in December last year when it
service stations has ........... in recent
was the ‘must-have’ Christmas toy. The peak risen
years, and more people now say they
company hopes sales will recover when
are willing to stop and eat there.
it is relaunched as the Talking Meerkat.

The consumption of chocolate ice


Sales of Farmer Brown’s Deluxe Vanilla
cream rose ........... when a fashion
Ice Cream ........... significantly when it
fell magazine claimed that it could make dramatically
was revealed that it contained neither
you look younger – some shops had to
vanilla nor cream.
limit sales to one tub per customer.

The consumption of coffee rose ........... Sales of banana ice cream will ...........
from an average of four cups a day to considerably next year if the company’s
slightly rise
five. marketing strategy is successful.

By 2020, it is ........... that all the hotels By 2020, scientists ........... that many of
in the area will be using solar energy to the animals on the endangered list will
expected predict
heat their swimming pools. have become extinct.

The number of people out of work rose Sales of tours to the region have ...........
from ........... 65,000 to 78,000 over the recently. The increase in the number of
approximately fallen
period. cases of malaria has been blamed.

• www.etprofessional.com • ENGLISH TEACHING professional • Issue 92 May 2014 • 39

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