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That's a Possibility.
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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Mind your manners!
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 2, "Conversation."
Time: 15–20 minutes. This activity provides a fun counterpoint to the topic of pet peeves.
- Students form groups. Explain the activity: Each group thinks up a list of ten things that people should always do to show good manners (i.e., polite ways of behaving in social situations). Write these examples on the board:
People should always . . . .
– hold the door open for the next person
– call you if they're going to be late
- Tell groups to choose a group secretary to write down their suggestions. Set a time limit of about ten minutes. Walk around and give help.
- When time is up, ask groups to take turns presenting their lists to the class.
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What's your opinion? What's your advice?
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 13, "Reading: The blue lights of Silver Cliff."
Time: 15–20 minutes. This activity practices making up situations and using past modals for expressing opinions and advice.
- Explain the activity: Students work in groups to make up two situations – one asking for an opinion and the other asking for advice; these should be similar to the situations with Exercise 8 on page 83. Also, each situation should end with at least one question. Write questions like these on the board for students to use:
Asking for an opinion
What should the person have done?
What else could he or she have done?
Asking for advice
What would you advise the person to do?
What kind of advice would you give him or her?
- Now students form groups. Set a time limit of about ten minutes for the task. Remind students to end each situation with a question or two. Go around and give help as needed.
- When time is up, have groups take turns reading their situations and questions aloud and challenging other groups to give their opinions and/or advice. Remind students to use past modals in their responses.
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Horror story
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 13, "Reading: The blue lights of Silver Cliff."
Time: 20–30 minutes. This exercise gives students a chance to practice collaborative creative writing. This is a chain-story task where the class works together to create an exciting plot for a horror story. (Note: Alternatively, you or the students could choose another genre for the class to write a plot for – a love story, a detective story, a science-fiction story).
- Divide the class into groups of about five students each. Then explain the activity: The class, with students working in groups, will write a story plot together.
- Write the title and the beginning of the story at the top of the board:
Spider Woman
This movie is about a woman who accidentally turns into a spider. Dr. Ruth Mindbender is a scientist who is doing medical research at a famous university. One day, she discovered an amazing new drug. . . .
- Now each group thinks up and writes down two more sentences to continue the story. Then groups take turns reading their sentences aloud to the class. Everyone quickly decides (e.g., by voting through a show of hands) which group has the best two sentences. That group gets to write their sentences on the board.
- Groups continue to write the story in this interactive way for about ten minutes – or until there is almost no more space on the board. Then tell each group to think up a good last sentence to end the story, and the class again chooses the best one.
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