|
|
|
|
Please Leave Us a Message.
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.
|
|
Go to the Resources Page for This Unit |
Game – Who's where?
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 2, "Word Power: Places."
Time: 10 minutes. This game practices expressions with prepositions of place.
- Write these questions on the board. Set a time limit of five minutes. Students complete the three incomplete questions. Tell students to think about people they know that are doing these things right now.
Do you know someone . . .
in the United States right now?
in bed right now?
in ______?
on a trip?
on a picnic?
on ______?
at the beach?
at the library?
at ______?
- Demonstrate the task by asking a few students the first question. Walk from one student to another until you find someone who says yes. Encourage students to give true answers:
Teacher: Sonia, do you know someone in the United States right now?
Student 1: No, I don't.
Teacher: How about you, Juan? Do you know someone in the United States right now?
Student 2: Yes, I do. My brother is in the United States.
Teacher: (writing Juan's name on the board) OK, Juan knows someone in the United States.
- Have the students walk around the room, asking and answering questions. When someone gives them a yes answer, they write down the student's name.
- The winner is the first person to have answers to all of the questions. If no one has answers to all the questions, the person with the most answers after five minutes is the winner.
- Check the names the winner wrote down. Just be sure the students gave a yes answer. (You don't have to be sure the answer was true.)
|
Back to Top
|
Game – What's your excuse?
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 6, "Conversation."
Time: 15–20 minutes. This activity gives additional practice with invitations and excuses.
- Students work in pairs to rewrite the conversation in Unit 16, Exercise 6 with a new invitation and a new excuse. As they write, go around the classroom to give help and to check for accuracy.
- Students practice their new conversations in pairs.
- Have some of the students say their conversations for the class, or do this in small groups.
|
Back to Top
|
Silly excuses
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 9, "Excuses."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity gives additional practice with making excuses.
- Write one or two "silly" excuses on the board, for example:
I have to wash my dog.
I have to shine my shoes.
- Students work in pairs to write three silly excuses.
- Students read their excuses aloud. As they read their excuses, write them on the board.
- The class votes on the silliest excuse.
|
Back to Top
|
Do you want to . . . ?
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 11, "Reading: Free Activities This Weekend."
Time: 20 minutes. This activity practices invitations and the vocabulary of the unit.
- From a local English-language newspaper, cut out several announcements or advertisements for weekend activities. If no newspaper is available, you can write your own announcements based on things that are happening in your town. Copy the announcements so that each student has them.
- Students read and discuss the activities in pairs or groups, helping each other with vocabulary. Each student chooses the activity he or she wants to do.
- Students stand up and move around the room, inviting others to join them. Try to circulate at the same time to encourage students to make, refuse, and accept invitations using language from the unit.
- When a student finds someone who wants to do the same thing, they join together and invite more people.
- At the end, the largest group shows the most popular activity.
|
Back to Top
|
|
|
