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Career Moves
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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Be a mime!
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 3, "Grammar Focus: Gerund phrases."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity requires groups to mime or use gestures to communicate the meaning of a gerund phrase. Other students guess what they are trying to communicate.
- Write at least ten phrases like these on the board. (Note: Each must be easy to mime.)
conducting an orchestra
working on a computer
doing medical research
fixing a car
picking flowers
walking a dog
digging a hole
cooking a meal
folding clothes
playing basketball
- Students form groups of four or five. Ask each group to secretly choose one of the phrases on the board. Tell them to think about how they can work together to mime the situation or use gestures to show the action to communicate the meaning. Groups shouldn't tell each other which phrase they have chosen. Set a time limit of about five minutes for groups to plan their mimes.
- Now groups take turns performing their mimes while the rest of the class tries to guess which phrase is being acted out.
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Game – Word Bingo
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 3, "Grammar Focus: Gerund phrases."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity reviews vocabulary and spelling, and practices listening for key words. It can be used with any unit.
- Make up a list of 24 words from Unit 2. Then show students how to make a Bingo card on an 8½ x 11-inch sheet of paper with 25 spaces:
- Dictate the words from your list: First, say the word and spell it. Then use it in a sentence, like this:
Teacher: Astronauts. A-S-T-R-O-N-A-U-T-S. U.S. astronauts first landed on the moon in 1969.
- Students listen and write each word inside a box in random order on their Bingo cards.
- One by one, randomly call out the words. 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.)
- 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. If all the words are correct, that student is the winner.
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Job skills
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 12, "Reading: Strategies for keeping your job."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity practices describing the qualities and skills needed for various jobs.
- Elicit the names of some jobs from the class or write the following list on the board:
police officer
school counselor
president or prime minister
taxi driver
martial arts instructor
TV talk show host
- Explain the activity: Students work in groups and choose three jobs from the list on the board. Then they discuss the three most important qualities or skills that a person needs for each job (e.g., be a good listener; have a black belt in karate). A group secretary records students' ideas.
- After about five minutes, group secretaries write their lists on the board. Then call on students to make statements to compare the jobs and skills.
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Advantages and disadvantages
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 12, "Reading: Strategies for keeping your job."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity practices talking about jobs and describing their advantages and disadvantages.
- Write the following list of jobs (or others of your own choosing) on the board:
government employee
police detective
inventor
writer
circus performer
- Students work in pairs. Tell them to think of the best and the worst things about each job. One student should act as the secretary and write down the points discussed.
- Pairs take turns telling the class their opinions and ideas.
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