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What Do You Do?
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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Game – What's the question?
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 6, "Workdays."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity can be used to practice the formation of questions in any unit. In this unit, it reinforces the meaning of Wh-words related to personal information.
Preparation: Each student needs three index cards, or a sheet of paper torn into thirds.
- Divide the class into two teams. Make sure each student has three cards or slips of paper.
- Write these examples on the board:
That's Jill.
He's tall and thin.
She's from Mexico.
- Elicit the question for each statement (Who's that? What's he like? Where's she from?).
- Explain that each student needs to think of three similar statements that can answer Wh-questions. Students write one statement on each card. Walk around the class and give help as needed. Allow students to consult and help their teammates. It's all right if some answers elicit the same question.
- Collect all the cards and put them in a pile facedown.
- Team A starts: One student picks up a card and reads it aloud to a student from Team B. That student then tries to make a suitable Wh-question for it.
- Students on both teams decide whether the question is correct or not. If it is, Team B wins a point. If it isn't, a student from Team A tries to correct it. If the correction is acceptable, Team A gets the point instead.
- Keep a tally of the scores on the board. The team with the most points wins.
- To make the contest more exciting, set a time limit. Students must begin to respond before the time is up.
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Scrambled letters
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 7, "Snapshot: Job Survey; People's opinions of different jobs."
Time: 5–10 minutes. This type of activity can be used with any unit for a fun review. This puzzle reviews vocabulary and spelling from Unit 1. All of the words in the puzzle come from Exercises 6 (Saying Hello) and 11 (Saying Good-bye).
- Copy this on the board:
| n i e f |
f __ __ __ |
| r e a l t |
l __ __ __ __ |
| l o h e l |
h __ __ __ __ |
| g t i h n |
n __ __ __ __ |
| s k a n t h |
t __ __ __ __ __ |
| n e e v i n g |
e __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| o r g m i n n |
m __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| r o t o r m o w |
t __ __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| g d o o – y b e |
g __ __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| f o r o n a n e t |
a __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ |
- Have students work in pairs to unscramble the words.
- Check answers on the board with the whole class. Make sure students have spelled the words correctly.
Answers
| fine |
thanks |
good-bye |
| later |
evening |
afternoon |
| hello |
morning |
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| night |
tomorrow |
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Game – Word bingo
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 7, "Snapshot: Job Survey; People's opinions of different jobs."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity reviews words from Units 1–4.
- Show students how to make a Bingo card on an 8½ X 11-inch sheet of paper with 25 spaces on it, like this:
| B |
I |
N |
G |
O |
| morning |
she |
fall |
pen |
I |
| winter |
afternoon |
it |
desk |
sister |
| clock |
mother |
FREE |
evening |
you |
| he |
chair |
summer |
family |
night |
| parents |
book |
pencil |
spring |
brother |
- Make up a list of twenty-four words. This list could include names of objects, clothing, colors, countries and regions, descriptive adjectives, seasons and weather, or prepositions of place.
- Write the words on the board, and have students write them down in random order on their bingo cards, without repetitions. Students write free in the center space.
- Dictate words at random. (You may repeat the word several times, depending on your students' abilities.) students find words on their cards and circle them. Keep a list of the words you call so that no words are repeated. (You will need the list to check cards when students call "Bingo.")
- The first student to circle five words in a row (or four words plus the free space) in any direction shouts, "Bingo!"
- Ask the student to read the circled words aloud. Check your list. If all the words are correct, the student wins.
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Complete the word
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 7, "Snapshot: Job Survey; People's opinions of different jobs."
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
- eat
- swim
- ride
- drive
- sleep
- watch
- dance
- walk
- shop
- work
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Game – Twenty questions
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 7, "Snapshot: Job Survey; People's opinions of different jobs."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This popular game can be used in other units to practice forming questions to elicit personal information. Here, students practice asking yes/no questions in the simple present while trying to guess the name of a job from Unit 8.
- Students form groups. Explain the game: One student thinks of a job that students are familiar with from the unit and then answers the group's questions with "Yes" or "No" about the job. The winner is either the student who correctly guesses the name of the job or the student who answers twenty questions before anyone in the group correctly guesses the name.
- If necessary, demonstrate the game. Tell students that you are thinking of a job. Ask them to guess what the job is. Model several yes/no questions that they could ask:
"Do you work in a hospital?"
"Is your job dangerous?"
"Are you a policeman?"
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