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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 Review of Units. Click on an activity in the list below or scroll down the page.
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The good old days
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 1, "How Time Have Changed!"
Time: 30–45 minutes. This activity practices using the past tense in writing a short composition in which students describe how family life has changed in the past fifty years. It can be done with students working individually, in pairs, or in their same groups from part A of Exercise 1 in Review of Units 1–4.
- Explain the activity: Students write a short composition (approximately one page) on how family life has changed in their country in the last fifty years. Tell them to use the questions from Exercise 1 on page 26 along with ideas from the group and class discussions to guide them.
- Set a time limit of about twenty minutes for students to write their compositions. Move around the class and give help as needed.
- Now students take turns reading their compositions to the class. If time allows, encourage others to ask follow-up questions after each reading.
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Spelling contest
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 4, "Computer Shopping."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity provides an opportunity to check students' spelling and to review vocabulary from this and earlier units. It can be done at any time during the course. (Note: This game is similar to the Verb contest on page 131.)
Preparation: Choose a list of words for the contest. For this activity, students work in groups; between eight and ten words are needed for each group.
- Divide the class into groups of four or five and assign each group a letter (i.e., Group A, Group B, and so on).
- Choose a word from your list and present it like this: (1) Read the word aloud. (2) Use it in a short, simple sentence. (3) Then repeat the word by asking a group "How do you spell . . . ?" Give the group a few seconds to confer quietly on how the word might be spelled. Then one student from the group spells out the word. (Note: Students should take turns spelling the words aloud.)
- If the spelling is correct, that groups gets a point; if it's wrong, ask the next group (e.g., Group B) to spell it. If no group can spell the word correctly, spell it for the class, write it on the board, and then go on to the next one.
- Continue in this way, giving each group an equal number of opportunities to spell words. The group that has the most points is the winner.
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