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How Do You Like the Neighborhood?
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 – Twenty questions
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 3, "Grammar Focus: There is, there are; one, any, some."
Time: 10 minutes. In this popular game, students practice asking yes/ no questions in the simple present tense while trying to guess the names of famous living people.
- Students form groups. Explain the game: One student thinks of a famous person and then answers the group's questions with "Yes" or "No" about that person. The winner is either the student who correctly guesses the name of the person or the student who answers twenty questions before anyone in the group correctly guesses the name.
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Game – What's the question?
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 9, "Grammar Focus: How much and how many."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity reviews Wh-questions.
Preparation: Each student will need three blank cards.
- Divide the class into two teams – Teams A and B. (Note: This activity can also be done in groups.) Give each student three blank cards.
- Students think of three statements that could be answers to Wh-questions (e.g., She works in a zoo. He's a flight attendant for United. I study dance at UCLA.). Then students write one statement on each card. Walk around the class and give help when needed.
- Collect all of the students' 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.
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Word associations
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 11, "Reading: City scenes."
Time: 10 minutes. This activity reviews vocabulary used to describe places.
- Write six words on the board from any one of the last four units in Student's Book 1 (e.g., from Unit 14, Canada, Australia, city, beach, mountain, river). Explain the task: Students brainstorm and try to think of as many word associations as they can for each one.
- Model the task by eliciting word associations for the word Canada and writing them on the board under it:
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- Students work in groups. Set a time limit of about ten minutes for groups to finish brainstorming on all six words. Walk around the class and give help as needed.
- Find out which groups made the most word associations for each word. Those groups take turns reading their words aloud; other groups listen and check off those same words on their own lists.
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How good is your memory?
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 11, "Reading: City scenes."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity is a fun "test your memory" map-drawing task.
- Explain the activity: Students draw maps of their school's campus (or of the immediate neighborhood that surrounds the school).
- Model the task by drawing a simple diagram that shows the location of your school building and its immediate vicinity (e.g., nearby streets, the campus area, large trees, benches).
- Ask students to think about the building their classroom is in and what other things are nearby (e.g., a pay phone, lawns, a bus stop, street lights, a parking lot, a cafeteria, small stores).
- Students work in pairs and try to draw a map of the school building with as much information as possible about things on the street and in the immediate surrounding area. Set a time limit of about five minutes.
- When time is up, find out how many and what types of things students were able to add to their maps. Which pair added the most items?
- Optional: If it's possible, students might enjoy taking a break and going outside the school building to check their maps for accuracy and for things they might have missed. Set a time limit of about fifteen minutes for this.
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