Stairs

Objective: To review Word Power vocabulary by personalizing it

Steps:

1. Ask your students to brainstorm six words or phrases they learned recently in a Word Power exercise. Have a student write these on the board.
2. Each student draws on a piece of paper a staircase with six steps.
3. Ask the students to rank the words or phrases according to a criterion: for example, from their favorite activity to their least favorite activity, from the most expensive to the least expensive, from the newest to the oldest, from the fastest to the slowest, or from the best to the worst. The students put the words or phrases, in the ranked order, from the top step to the bottom step.
4. Students work in pairs. Ask them to compare their orders with each other.

Example: The following example is for New Interchange 1, Unit 15: "I'm Going to a Musical." The Word Power exercise appears on p. 93 of the Student's Book.

On the Board: On student's paper:

Acknowledgment: Adapted from Five-Minute Activities: A Resource Book of Short Activities, by Penny Ur and Andrew Wright, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Variation: Ask the students to compare their orders and find out who have similar orders.