Vocabulary Core vocabulary: Everyday objects

Exercise 4
• Students work in pairs to do the questionnaire, then read the key. Ask individual students if they agree with their results.
• In a weaker class, ask how many students came into each group: a, b or c. Divide the class into these groups and ask them to dicuss, in their own language if necessary, why they agree or disagree with the key. Then ask each student to prouduce a sentence starting ‘I think I am / I don’t think I am, ..., because ...’. Write this sentence on the board for support.
• In a stronger class, ask students to discuss with their partner their reasons for agreeing or disagreeing with the key. Go around the room monitoring their discussions.
Exercise 5
• Students work individually to write sentences about themselves and their partner.
• Ask some students to read out their sentences to the class.
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Students’ own answers.
Exercise 6
• Students can now use the new vocabulary in context by asking and answering with a partner.
• In a weaker class, encourage students to write the questions they want to ask before they start their conversations.
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Students’ own answers.
Finished?
• Refer fast finishers to the Finished? activity.
• Encourage them to use as many of the new words as possible in their sentences. Remind them to use adjectives to describe the personality of the person they have chosen to write about, and verbs to describe what they do.
• Once students have finished, they can compare their ideas with another fast finisher. They could also produce a mini-project as an extension activity for homework, using photos of the person.
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Students’ own answers.
Optional activity: Vocabulary
To practise or revise the vocabulary set in a fun way, do the following activity. Divide the class into two teams. Ask one student from each team to be the team captain. The two captains should come to the front of the class and, without showing it to their classmates, write on a piece of paper a list of six everyday objects from exercises 1 and 2.
Explain to the teams that each captain has six everyday objects in their bag, and their team mates must guess the objects one by one.
With books closed, ask individual students from first one team then another to ask their captain about what is in their bag, e.g. Have you got a laptop in your bag? Are there any keys in your bag? Only accept questions if they are correctly formed.
If the answer is yes, write that object on the board. If the answer is no, move on to the next question but do not write the object on the board, so students have to remember which objects their team mates have asked about.
The first team to guess all six objects wins the game.