| Author(s): Jill Hadfield Publisher: Longman ISBN: 9780175558728 |
All participants are occupants of a tower block.
7 - 46 students.
Descibing objects from pictures:
A thing for ...ing
A thing that does...
etc.
Card game with pictures. Ss make defintions of objects in pictures and others guess the object.
Each S has a picture of a person with clues to their lifestyle. Ss imagines they are the person in the picture and want to change their lifestyle with someone else's.
Dating agency game with picture cards
Ss complete questionnaires as follows:
...is a student whose brother...
etc.
Witnesses role play. Each S is a witness to an alien visitation. Task is to put info together to find out what happened.
Ss reconstruct details on a UFO sighting from witness accounts.
Picture correction and sentence completion tasks.
Making and answering simple telephone enquiries; getting the wrong number.
Estate agents game.
Picture card game in which Ss match good news and bad news cards.
present intentions:
Mill type activity comparing good intentions.
past intentions:
one year later follow-up.
All main future forms + time expressions.
should /ought
Giving advice using rold cards
should have
One year later follow-up
Sentence completion activity. Ss complete 2nd conditional sentences on cards.
'If cars ran on milk...' etc.
Shuffle cards and guess who completed which sentences.
Role play with role cards. Someone in the office is going to be promoted. Give your opinions and try to find out what others think of you.
Describing reactions to pictures. One S describes his/her reaction to a set of pictures, the other listens and puts the pictures in order.
2 groups: reps and buyers.
Buyers think of everyday problems; reps have cards with pics of (Heath-Robinson-ish) machines they must sell. ('You will be able to...')
Fill in questionnaires ubout upbrining. Find out who had the strictest.
'Will' for promises.
(+ First conditional)
Role Play(family). Ss have to extract a promise out of other family members in exchange for making a promise themselves.
Role play with cards. Ss have to identify various suspects for thefts.
Guessing game with picure cards. Ss must describe their picture. Others must guess, 'You have been ...ing' etc.
Find information to complete statements about past and present habits.
Board game with dice and counters.
Mill type role play with role cards. Ss ask about future plans etc and decide who they want to spend Christmas with.
past simple + ago. Questions, 'When did you last..?'
Past simple. Yes / no questions.
Ss have to reassemble a queue of people by asking yes / no questions and using information in role cards.
Card game. Small groups.
Past perfect
Past simple
Language for making deductions.
Murder-solving game with clue cards.
Picture ordering game. Deductions; Looks like.
Students descibe and makes guesses about abstract shapes.
Role play. Small groups.
Role cards for two parties + a go between who has to negotiate for them.
One S lays a card. Second S lays another card and compares it with the first.
Describing everyday objects as a future archaeologist might.
Will for prediction.
Mill type role play with role cards.
Role cards: fortune tellers / fortune hunters.
Mill-type role play with role cards.
Ss swap Christmas presents.
Mill type activity. Cut up pictures.
Describing physical appearance.
Clothing.
Ss are given a head and have to find suitable bodies, legs etc to complete the picture.
Ss must convey the meanings of adverbs on cards without saying the adverb.
Arranging and guessing.
Ss arrange themselves in order according to a question such as, 'How do you like your boiled eggs, runny or hard?' Other Ss have to guess the question.
Ss make excuses for not doing household chores by saying, 'I've got to (have to) ...'
Mill type find someone who activity,
'Find someone who you would like to thank for..
...making you laugh' etc. (15 examples).