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We Live in the Suburbs.
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.
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Thinking about grammar
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 4, "Grammar Focus: Simple present statements."
Time: 5 minutes. This activity focuses on contrasting the meanings of the simple present and the present continuous.
- Have students look at the conversation in Unit 6, Exercise 2. Ask them to underline two statements that give information about "right now" and to circle two statements that tell about things that happen every day or often.
Sentences about right now
What are you doing?
I'm waiting for my mom.
Is she coming right now?
I'm going home.
Sentences about every day
She works near here.
I don't live far from here . . . .
. . . I walk to school.
- Statements about "right now" are in the present continuous. Statements about "every day" are in the simple present. Elicit these observations from the students. (Note: The sentence "My bike has a flat tire" is an exception. It means "right now," although it is in the simple present. Have belongs to a group of verbs that is not usually used with the continuous. They are taught in Student's Book 1.)
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Days of the week
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 9, "Listening: Days of the week."
Time: 15 minutes. This activity gives extra practice in saying the days of the week.
- Divide the class into groups, with each group sitting in a circle. Have each group write the days of the week on seven slips of paper. Students place the slips face up within easy reach of the entire group.
- Designate a leader for each group. Call out any day of the week. The leader quickly picks up the slip of paper with the next day of the week written on it and says this day. Moving to the left, the next student does the same with the day that follows. Students continue around the group until they have picked up all the slips and said all the days of the week. The group that finishes first is the winner of this round.
- Play several times. The group that wins the most rounds is class champion.
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Game – Tic-Tac-Toe
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 10, "Grammar Focus: Simple present questions."
Time: 10 minutes. This activity can be used in any unit to practice forming questions and statements. Here students practice questions and statements in the simple present with regular and irregular verbs.
- Draw a grid with nine squares on the board (i.e., three rows and three columns). Ask students to call out present tense verbs, some in the first-person form and some in the third-person singular form, with -s (e.g., go, dances, play). Write one verb on each square of the grid.
- Divide the class into two teams – Team X and Team O. Team X starts by choosing a verb and making either a question or a statement with it. If it is correct, Team X writes an X on the grid and takes another turn. If it is incorrect, Team O gets a chance with the same word. If Team O is correct, they write an O on the grid. Then it is Team O's turn.
- The game continues until one team gets Tic-Tac-Toe: three Xs or Os in a line; up, down, or diagonally across the grid.
- Optional: This game can also be played in pairs or groups, which gives each student more practice.
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