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inal oral examsalwaysdemandhours of thinking, planning and preparing.For this reason,The Teachel'sMagazineprovidesyou with ready-made materialto face the end-of-the-yearassessment making your task lighter. ;ue,poster1 presentsa holiday sceneon the beachwith opportunitiesfor speaking,describing,giving opinions or ling the main subjectsand grammarpoints covered ut the schoolyear. 3 to the skill you want to assess,you can presentthe a whole or divide it in various scenesfor the studentsto rr make up their own stories. w some examplesof the activitiesyou can carry out with rr.Just adapt them to your students'age and level.
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ís / there &re tudentsto make sentencesusing there is/are. E.g. There parasolson tlte beach.Thereis a radio. Thereare etc.
What c&n/c&n't thesepeople do? Haveüe studentspoint at the people and tell their partnerswhat this personcan/can't do, e.g.He cdn't swim. He can run fast.He can't play football, etc.
Wlwt is he/slrc dotng? Saya sentenceand ask the studentsto point at the right scene. SayTlzereis a man sellingí.cecream and there are two cltildren buying ice cream; Therei.sa man sining on the floor. He is Ii.steningto the radi.o. As a variant you may divide the studentsin pairs. StudentA makesa sentenceand studentB guesseswhat scenestudentA is speakingabout.
What &re they doing? Ask the studentsto say what the people are doing. There are lots of actionsto describe.E.g. He is surftng.He is swimming. Tlrcy are playing vollqtball. Tlrcy are playing football. Thq are eating, etc.
Giving rersons :epositionand ask the studentsto make a sentenceusingit. Ler;E.g.A woman fs sifüingunder the parasol.
I happened yesterdey? studentsto write a list of actionsthey can seeon the Ihey should write the past tensesof the verbs and make es describingwhat the people did yesterday.
happy or sedT studentsto describethe feelingsand mood of different Ask Is tttis boy happy or sad? (He i.ssad.) WIwt ís he doíng? ying.) Wtty ts he crying?(Becauselrc can't seehis mum.)
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or written composttions a different sceneto eachstudent and ask them to write a lion. They should include as many detailsas they can.
Ask the studentswhy peopleare feeling that way. E.g- Wlty f-s th/s boy so tired?Wlty i.she so sad?Wtty i.sthe vendor in a bad ' mood?Wlty is the mon in the water so neruous?etc. The studentsmay comeup with answerslike these:Becausehe has beenplaying footbalL.Becauselrc ts Lost.Becauselzecan't swim, etc.
YesterdayI went to the beactl end ... Give the studentsthis headingand have them make an oral compositionon a day on the beach. Working in pairs, studentA makesquestionsand student B answersthem. They can comparethe sceneon the posterwith their latest holiday on the beach. All thesesuggestionscan also be used as remedialwork before final examinstances.For this reasonyou will find on the photocopiablepages,a set of activity cardswhich can be assignedto individual students,dependingon the languageitem you want them to work on. As you see,possibilitiesare plentiful. You only have to find the appropriateexercisefor the item of grammar or vocabularyyou want to reviseor assess
the oneson poster1 andthe cardson pages12and 13.Youmayphotocopyit ant Teacher:Thispictureaccompanies distributeone pictureevery3 or Astudentsin caseit is difficultfor themto seethe detailson the poster.Thendistribu accordingto eachstudent'sneed. the cardswith the exercises
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(be)in thisbeautiful placeon the (be)nice,hotand ...... Theweather.............. coast. ..........basketball. ...(go)to | ................. sunnybut a bit windy.Yesterday theirlunch. (be)a lot of people. the beach. There Here|
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