Entries from October 2008 ↓

An activity for Unit 8

Activity Time
35 ~ 50 minutes depending on how much reinforcement / explicit teaching / grammatical accuracy
you fancy.

Activity Goals
Encourage understanding of descriptions and comparisons.
Allow practice with comparatives and superlatives.
Motivate basic inferencing skills.
Passive review of the past tense.
Active review of adjectives.

comparatives.superlatives.practice

This is a commercial that I found on the net. I have used and still use it in my reading classes. I have prepared a number of comprehension questions that I give the students or ask the students to find the answers for. There are some other extension questions too.The commercial is about “Grandpa Chew”watch?v=9ll-bDmK3EAThe questions are at this link reading-comprehension-questions-for-grandpa-chew-life-insurance-commercial

This is an activity to practice the “skimming” technique to get the main idea using the Unit 8 reading “It’s not so bad to be middle-aged.” You might want to try it after doing the intro pair activity.

passages-unit8-skimmimg-for-students.doc

passages-unit8-skimming-for-teachers

Here are a couple of late-breakers that didn’t make it into the binder at the start of the semester. You might want to use them to help your students prepare for Speaking Task 1 (summer vacation interview).

Activity to promote accuracy in questions (PDF): Past tense question writing worksheet

If you decide to follow the same interview pattern as on the DVD, this document may help you guide your students through the various stages of the interview. Either hand it out, or write on the board doing the final practice session.

Interview pattern (PDF): Interview Pattern

These documents can also be found in Shared Files, and in the level binder.