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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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Odd word out
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 6, "Good Intentions."
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 |
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ticket |
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suitcase* |
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passport |
| List #2: hotel |
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city* |
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hostel |
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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."
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Mixed messages
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 6, "Good Intentions."
Time: 15–20 minutes. This activity reviews reported speech.
- Explain the activity: Students form a circle. One student whispers a sentence to the student on the left. Then that student uses reported speech to pass it on to the next person and in this way the message is relayed around the group. The goal is to compare the original statement with the one that comes back to the student who initiated it.
- Form groups of eight or ten students ; if possible, have each group sit in a circle. Explain the situation: Students imagine that they have been invited to a party on Saturday night, but they don't want to go. Tell each group to choose one student to think up an interesting excuse for not going.
- To model the activity, give the following Student 1 and Student 2 examples with the explanation:
Student 1 (Rosa) to Student 2: I can't go because I'm going mountain climbing the day before and I'll probably be too tired.
Explain that the student who thinks up the excuse whispers it to the student on the left who, in turn, passes the excuse onto the next while using reported speech, like this:
Student 2 to Student 3: Rosa said she couldn't go because she was going mountain climbing the day before and she'd probably be too tired.
The last student who gets the message should relay it out loud to the whole group. The group then compares it to the original message.
- Now groups do the activity. Walk around and give help and encouragement as needed.
- Groups continue until each student has had a chance to think up an excuse and pass it on.
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