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OOD 
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Food hates 
You have to find out which meals or kinds of food the other people in your class dislike. 
Each of you prepares an interview card which could look like this: 
Name food 
hates? 
Freddie chocolate, 
spinach 
FOOD 
Weight-watching 
You have to find out if the other people in your class think they are too fat, just right or too thin. 
could look like this: 
Each of you prepares an interview card which
o you think you are: 
D
Name 
too far? 
just right? 
to thin? 
Bob x 
FOOD 
Cooking 
You have to find out which meals or drinks the other people in your class can prepare themselves. 
Each of you prepares an interview card which could look like this: 
Name can 
prepare/make? 
Peter 
tea, porridge, sandwiches, omelettes 
Childhood is the happiest time of life. 
School grades should be outlawed. 
Each school should have an elected student body to help in the running of the school. 
Most people cheat and are dishonest if you give them the chance. 

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Arranged marriages are best. 
A more detailed discussion of group types is given in the introduction to Keep Talking by Friederike Klippel. 
 Learner Anxiety 
In teaching speaking you are asking your students to perform, to speak up in front of their classmates. As a 
result, many of your student's may experience stress during these activities. Whether the anxiety is a help or 
a hindrance often depends on the degree to which it manifests itself in your students. For example, no 
anxiety might result in a student's not caring or putting any effort into speaking English; too much might block 
arning. But a small amount will bring your students to an optimal state of alertness. Your role is to monitor 
while not aiming to eradicate it altogether, to make sure that this level is kept 
asonably low. There are various techniques you can use to prevent anxiety from taking over. 
int. Empty 
raise becomes meaningless very quickly. But by underlining a specific item that you know a student has 
orked hard at, you can offer the meaningful recognition that builds a student's confidence. An example of 
raise is: "Well done. You managed that conversation well. Did the rest of you notice how he 
as using those 'Uh-huhs' to keep his partner talking?" On the other hand, when you correct a student's 
One."