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Further language focus activities
Group writing
(You can use this activity in the Language Focus lesson
in Unit 1, TA 10)
Aim: to practise writing about past events
Grammar: Past simple
Procedure:
1. Get students in groups of four.
2. Each gets a piece of paper ready and then writes a
sentence about what s/he did in the past (either the
previous week, month or year). E.g. I went to Ho Chi Minh City.
3. When they finish, tell them to pass their paper to
another member of the group.
4. Ask them to read the sentence and write several
questions about it; e.g. How long did you stay there?
Where did you go? Who did you go with? etc.
5. When they finish writing the questions, tell them to
pass the paper to another member of the group and
s/he invents the answers to the questions.
6. Then again ask students to pass the paper with the
questions and answers to another member of the
group and this time s/he writes a short paragraph
using the information from the answers.
7. When they finish writing, ask the students to pass
the paper back to those who wrote the sentence
and they read the story and comment on how similar
or different the story is to their original experience.
Variation: This activity can take time, so if you don’t
have much time, you can let your students write the
story at home.
Find things in common
(You can use this activity in the Language Focus lesson
in Unit 1, TA 10)
Aim: to practise asking and answering about routine
activities
Grammar: Present Simple with adverbs of frequency
Procedure:
1. Get students to have a piece of paper ready and to
draw a three-column table.
2. Ask them to write four to five activities in the first
column and their frequency in the second column.
Example:
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Activity |
You |
Your patrner |
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Exercise |
A
lot
4 times a week |
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Drink tea |
Often
Almost every day |
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3. Ask one of the students the following questions as a
model.
T: Do you ever do exercise?
S: Yes, a lot.
T: How often do you do exercise?
S: Four times a week.
4. Tell students to ask their partners and then record
their answers in the third column.
5. When they finish, the pairs can compare and find
things in common.
6. Arrange the students in groups and get them in
pairs to report to each other about similarities and
differences they have.
7. (Optional) The students can write about their similar
routine activities.
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