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The activities below provide fun exercises for the entire class when you have extra time. They are designed to be taught with specific exercises in this unit. Click on an activity in the list below or scroll down the page.

Telling time
Diary
Action verbs
Complete the word

  
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Telling time

This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 2, "Telling Time (1)."

Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity provides extra practice in telling time.
  • Draw a clock on the board, or bring in a clock with movable hands. Set the hands to various times and write A.M. or P.M. on the board. Ask, "What time is it?" students answer chorally, using "in the morning," in the afternoon," "in the evening," or "at night" in their answers.
  • Ask each student to draw five clocks on a piece of paper showing different times. They should be careful to draw the minute hand longer than the hour hand. Have them write A.M. or P.M. under each clock.
  • Students work in pairs to ask and answer about the time on each other's clocks.
  • To follow up, ask several students to draw one of their clocks on the board and to ask another student the time.

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Diary

This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 7, "Grammar Focus: What + doing; conjunction so."

This activity provides additional controlled practice of the present continuous and so.
  • As a homework activity, ask students to keep a diary of one day in their lives. Explain that a diary is a notebook; people write their actions and thoughts in it.
  • Tell students to keep a diary of what they are doing throughout the day, like this:

    It's 8:00 a.m., so I'm getting up.
    It's 8:15 a.m., so I'm having breakfast.

  • Students bring their diaries to class and share their activities with a partner or with the class.

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Action verbs

This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 11, "Reading: It's Saturday! What are you doing?"

Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity introduces more action verbs and practices present continuous statements.
  • Bring in pictures from newspapers and magazines showing people engaged in different actions (photos from sports magazines can be especially useful for this activity).
  • As you show each picture, ask, "What's he/she doing?" and allow students to answer if they can. If not, supply the answer. Write each verb on the board, model it, and have students repeat.
  • Have students act out the new verbs.

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Complete the word

This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 11, "Reading: It's Saturday! What are you doing?"

Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity can be used to practice vocabulary and spelling in any unit. Here students review verbs from Unit 5, Exercises 7 and 9.
  • Copy the following on the board:

    1. _ a _
    2. _ w _ _
    3. _ _ d _
    4. _ r _ _ _
    5. _ _ _ _ p
    6. _ _ _ c _
    7. _ _ n _ _
    8. _ _ l _
    9. _ h _ _
    10. _ o _ _

  • Tell students the answers are in Unit 5, Exercises 7 and 9. Have students work in pairs to find the words and fill in the missing letters.
  • Check answers on the board with the class.
Answers
  1. eat
  2. swim
  3. ride
  4. drive
  5. sleep
  6. watch
  7. dance
  8. walk
  9. shop
  10. work

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