Unit 5 Disaster zone A disastrous weekend Vocabulary: past actions and events Grammar: the Past Simple Tense Skills: speaking (giving and eliciting information) Time: 10 minutes Procedure: Ask the students to imagine that they have just had a disastrous weekend. Ask them to come up with a list of 10 disastrous events which took place at the weekend. Encourage them to use the Past Simple Tense (positive and negative), e.g. I broke my leg. My mum lost her wallet. We didn’t have lunch and we were very hungry. etc. Then ask the students to work in pairs and exchange information. Find the answer to the question: Who had the most disastrous weekend?”
Unit 6 Playing games The best game ever! Vocabulary: games/computers Grammar: the Present Simple Tense, the verb to be Skills: speaking (describing, giving information, eliciting information) Time: 10 minutes Procedure: Write the word GAMES on the whiteboard. Elicit some types or names of games that come to the students’ minds and write them on the whiteboard (possible answers: board games, computer games, Monopoly, Minecraft, chess, Ludo, X-Box, cards, Poker, etc.). Ask each student to think of their favourite game and try to think of a very short description of it. Then, in pairs ask the students to give this information to their partner so that they can guess the name of this game, e.g.: – This is a game for two people. You need a special board and some pieces. – Is it Monopoly? – No! You have a queen and king. – Is it chess? – Yes!
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Unit 7 Your future, our future I am twenty and I … Vocabulary: life events Grammar: the Present Simple Tense Skills: speaking (giving and eliciting information) Time: 5 minutes Procedure: Ask the students to close their eyes and imagine that they are in the future. Ask them to think of what they can do and where they can be, for example: I am twenty and I am a student. I have a weekend job as a waitress and I live on my own. I have a handsome boyfriend and I always spend the summer abroad. Then ask the students to exchange this information in pairs. If possible, they may give some extra information or elicit some information from their partners.
Unit 8 International adventures Guess what it is Vocabulary: types of transportation (revision) Grammar: the Present Simple Tense Skills: speaking (giving and eliciting information), miming to express information Time: 10 minutes Procedure: Prepare small cards with the names of types of transport (e.g. a bike, a car, a motorbike, a balloon, a tram, a ship). Ask one volunteer to come to the front and ask them to mime this word so that the other students can guess what it is. They may ask questions but the person at the front can only answer yes/no. Sample questions: – Is it big? – No! – Has it got wheels? – Yes! – Has it got four wheels? – No! – Do you use it every day? – Yes! – Is it a bike? Yes!
Unit 9 Best friends Today I would like to… but I wouldn’t like to … Vocabulary: daily routines Grammar: the expressions with would like Skills: speaking (expressing preferences, eliciting information) Time: 5 minutes Procedure: Ask the students to work in pairs and share information: Today I would like to … but I wouldn’t like to … Encourage them to invent some activities that they would like to do (including extraordinary ones) and give short explanations, e.g.: Today I would like to go for a bike trip but it’s hard because there is a lot of snow. I wouldn’t like to stay at home and do my homework. © Macmillan Polska 2013
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