The posted materials support Unit 15 of Let’s Talk for the Level 2 Speaking/Listening course. However, they might be useful for any class focusing on tenses. Essentially, the students have to compare their life now and their life ten years ago. Through reminiscing, there is plenty of potential to practice lots of useful grammar. The materials involve the teacher comparing their life now with that of ten years ago. Following this, the students have time to do the same. The handout contains a language box containing useful grammar forms and vocab items. Feedback welcome.

then-and-now.doc
then-and-now.pdf

The posted materials support Unit 13 of Let’s Talk for the Level 2 Speaking/Listening course. However, they might be useful for any class focusing on jobs and personal appearance. The materials are pretty self-explanatory. As in the children’s game of “Guess who?”, the students have to ask a series of yes/no questions to eliminate possible candidates from the 28 famous faces, and guess the celebrity who their partner is thinking of. A variation (see Part D) is to have the students take it in turns to ask questions and guess. The first person to guess the right famous person is the winner. Feedback welcome.

guess-who.doc
guess-who.pdf

The posted materials support Unit 10 of Let’s Talk for the Level 2 Speaking/Listening course. However, they might be useful for any class focusing on advice giving. The materials involve the students thinking of problems and giving advice. The handout has a language box, which provides suitable language for the task. When giving the task, I recommend making sure that the students have plenty of time to embellish their problems and make them as heartfelt as possible. Feedback welcome.

thats-good-advice.pdf
thats-good-advice.doc

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support the Passages textbook Unit 1B ‘Every family’s different’ on pages 6, 7.

The teaching materials include:

1. A PowerPoint presentation
2. A Student worksheet
3. A Teacher’s notes sheet
4. Speaking cards (There are two sets of these cards. They are on the Level 3 shelf.)

You can use these materials in a number of ways, for example to introduce the topic or to review the topic. It is important though, that you go through the different slides first to familiarise yourself with the presentation.
The teacher’s notes sheet provides more information on how to use this material.

The presentations require a computer and projector. Since we are unsure how soon the classrooms will be equiped with a computer, you can borrow one of the ELP laptops.
These materials will also be available in the Level 3 binder.

The Teacher’s notes document.
Passages Unit 1B.doc

The PowerPoint presentation.
Passages unit 1B.ppt

The Student Worksheet. (NB. This is a colour version. There is a black/white version in the binder on the shelf.)
Passages 1B worksheet.doc

The posted materials support Unit 2 of Let’s Talk for the Level 2 Speaking/Listening course. However, they might be useful for any class focusing on describing personal appearance. The material first involves a listening activity. The students hear two people talking about the people in the line-up (which is printed on the materials). The recorded conversation involves one first person asking yes/no questions to the second person to work out who the second person is thinking about. The students simply have to work out who is being thought about. The accompanying CD is available on the Level 2 shelf. After the listening, there is a speaking activity in which the students have to do the same thing with a partner. Hope that description wasn’t too confusing. Feedback welcome.

Guess Who?

The posted materials support Unit 2 of Let’s Talk for the Level 2 Speaking/Listening course. However, they might be useful for any class focusing on describing personal appearance. The materials involve the learners describing their perfect mate, while their class partner draw this perfect specimen. Since the drawing rarely looks like anything like how the first person intended, the activity can be a lot of fun. However, it’s important that the “artist” does not show the “describer” the drawing until the end of the activity. Before getting the students to do the activity, I model what should be done by describing my perfect partner and getting them to do the drawing. Feedback welcome.

The imaginitively titled, Activities Activity supports Unit 3 of Let’s Talk for the Level 2 Speaking/Listening course. However, it might be useful for any class focusing on freetime and hobbies. During the activity, the students have to associate the verbs, “go”, “play”, and “do (some)” with the appropriate activity. Then, there is an opportunity to use this language in a fluency-based activity. Before doing the fluency activity, it is worth carefully modelling the task to ensure that everyone understands what to do. Feedback welcome.
Activities Activity

The posted materials support Unit 2 of Let’s Talk for the Level 2 Speaking/Listening course. However, they might be useful for any class focusing on describing personal appearance. Before class, the teacher has to cut the handout into 2 pieces. Before giving the paper to the students, the learners should be given one minute to try to remember their partner’s clothes and appearance. Then, they should sit “Back to Back”. At this point, give one half of the handout to Person A, and the other half to Person B. The rest is self-explanatory. Feedback welcome.

“Back to Back”