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It's a Very Exciting City!
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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Let's go!
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 13, "Reading: Famous cities."
Time: 20 minutes. This is a two-part exercise that practices writing descriptions of events in a city – using real information – and then extending invitations.
Preparation: Ask students to bring English-language newspapers to class for this task. If there are none available, students could translate information from other sources into English. Alternatively, you could bring newspapers or other local printed sources with information about events in your town or city and make copies for all students to use in class.
- Explain the first task: Students scan the newspaper for interesting local events. Then they choose three events and write short summaries about each one:
There is a classic Japanese movie at the Star Theater.
The movie is The Seven Samurai. It's on Thursday at 8 o'clock.
students should add other information as appropriate (e.g., type of movie, main actors, ticket price, location of the theater).
- Students work individually, in pairs, or in groups to write descriptions of three events. Move around the class and give help as needed. (Note: This first part could also be done for homework.)
- Explain the second task: Students work in pairs and take turns reading aloud their three descriptions to each other. Then they invite their partners to do something, using the information about their three events.
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Game – Word Bingo
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 13, "Reading: Famous cities."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity reviews vocabulary and spelling, and practices listening for and writing down key words. It can easily be used with any unit.
- Make up a list of 24 words from Unit 5. Then show students how to make a Bingo card on an 8½" X 11" sheet of paper with 25 spaces on it, like this:
- Dictate the words from your list: First, say the word and spell it. Then use it in a sentence, like this:
Teacher: Family. F-A-M-I-L-Y. There are three in my family.
- Students listen and write down each word inside a box in random order on their Bingo cards.
- One by one, randomly call out the words from your list. Students find each word on their card and circle it. (Note: Check the word off on your own list so that no words are repeated. This will also help when checking a student's card later, after he or she gets "Bingo.")
- The first student to get five circled words in a row in any direction (including the "Free" space) shouts "Bingo!" Ask the student to read aloud the five circled words. Check them against the original list. If all the words are correct, that student is the winner.
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Crossword puzzle
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 13, "Reading: Famous cities." See also the new crossword puzzle created for Review of Units 9–12.
Time: 15 minutes. This activity is good for reviewing vocabulary in any unit and for practicing spelling.
- Students form pairs or groups and then make a crossword puzzle grid of 12 by 12 lines.
- Students use words from the unit and try to fit in as many as possible on their grids. (Note: The example grid below uses words connected to family and relatives from Unit 5.)
- After ten minutes, stop the activity and find out who has the most words on the grid. Ask that student to read each word aloud and to spell each one; the rest of the class listens and circles the same words on their grids.
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Chain story – Visiting a foreign country
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 13, "Reading: Famous cities."
Time: 10 minutes. This activity practices narrating a story in the past tense while using adverbs, adjectives, and conjunctions.
- Explain the task: Students tell a story about visiting a foreign country. One student gives the first sentence of the story. The next student repeats that sentence and adds another sentence. Model the task with several students :
Teacher: I went to France.
Student 1: I went to France, and I stayed in Paris.
Student 2: I went to France, and I stayed in Paris, but it was very expensive there.
Student 3: I went to France, and I stayed in Paris, but it was very expensive there. However, I bought a nice . . . .
- Have students form groups. Students take turns adding sentences around the group until the story comes to an interesting end.
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