Level Two: Review of Units 9-12

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.

People and places

Superstitions

Odd word out

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People and places

This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 3, "Who Is This By?"

Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity gives further practice in using passives to describe situations.

Explain the activity: Students will get a situation (e.g., in a hotel, on an airplane), and they must make as many statements as they can about it while using passives with or without by.
Model the task by giving this example situation: In a department store. Then ask students to think of things that are done or that take place in that kind of place. Remind them to think of sentences using the passive. Write their suggestions on the board, like this:

In a department store
Clothes and shoes are sold there.
Food is served in its restaurant.
Uniforms are sometimes worn by the salesclerks.
Store sales are held at least once a year.
Expensive items are usually kept in glass cases.
Now write the following situations on the board and ask students to think about them or other situations they can come up with:

in a hotel at a school or university

on an airplane in a restaurant

at a bank in a supermarket
Students work in pairs or groups. Tell them to choose three situations to discuss and to write down their sentences for each one. Set a time limit of ten minutes. Go around and give help as needed.
Call on students to read aloud some of the sentences they wrote for various situations. Which pair or group wrote the most sentences?

Superstitions

This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 6, "Tell Me About It."

Time: 15 minutes. In this activity, students work in groups to describe superstitions from their own cultures or from other cultures they know about.

Explain that a superstition is a popular belief that some objects or actions are lucky or unlucky, and that superstitions are sometimes based on old ideas about magic. Give examples like these: Don't walk under a ladder because you'll have bad luck. Some people think that finding a four-leaf clover is lucky.
Explain the task: Students think of two or three superstitions from their own cultures and try to describe them in English. Point out that this can be done using affirmative and negative statements, if clauses, or clauses with because:

You should walk around a ladder so you won't have bad luck. (or)
If you walk under a ladder, you'll have bad luck. (or)
Don't walk under a ladder because you'll have bad luck.
Students work in groups. Set a time limit of five minutes. Go around and give help as needed.
Groups take turns reading their statements to the class.

Odd word out

This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 6, "Tell Me About It."

Time: 10–15 minutes. This popular game (often called "Odd Man Out") challenges students to form lists of related words with one exception in each. It can be played at any time with any unit or topic.

Have students form groups of four or five. Explain that they will work together to make up three separate lists of words in which each list has three related words. Then they must add one more word to each list that doesn't fit with the other words. (Note: In this game, have students focus on using words related to the theme of travel or tourism from Unit 5 if you wish.)
Model the task by giving several examples:

List #1: visa ticket suitcase* passport

List #2: hotel city* hostel inn

(Note: * = odd word out)
As groups do the task, go around and give help. Encourage students to use the Student's Book to find words in Units 1–8, rather than a dictionary.
Now groups take turns reading their lists aloud to the class or writing them on the board, whichever is preferable. Other students try to guess which is the "odd word out."