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July 8th, 2008 — Public Files
This zip file contains an overview of the Reading Swap Shop, facilitated by Kay Irie on June 5, 2008, along with some of the materials presented. For more information about ideas and activities in the folder, please talk with the contributors listed below.
Kay Irie
Dan Jackson
Paul Joyce
Christine Wilby
Deborah Bollinger
April 14th, 2008 — Public Files
These are some short listening activities that can be used to introduce each unit or to provide extra practice. There are three types: gap-fill, correction, and re-ordering. There are also a variety of shorter, follow-up tasks, such as scrambled words, choose a summary, and complete the sentence.
Download the zip file below.
NOTE: this is a new zip file. The previous one contained a mistake in the Unit 2 supp file (there were 11 mistakes, not 10!)
September 20th, 2007 — Public Files
This can be used with the supplentary activities 10~18 to give students a record of their scores and an opportunity to practice more outside class with the textbook CD.
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September 20th, 2007 — Public Files
These are some short listening activities that can be used to introduce each unit or to provide extra practice. There are three types: gap-fill, correction, and re-ordering. There are also a variety of shorter, follow-up tasks, such as scrambled words, choose a summary, and complete the sentence.
There is also a Student Record Sheet. This can be used if you intend to use most or all of the supplementary activities. Students can keep a record of their score and are encouraged to try again at home using the CD in the textbook.
Thank you to Deborah for TT16 and 17
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April 17th, 2007 — Public Files
An activity - spot the mistakes - to use at the start of class based on the main reading.
Start with a general question about the benefits/drawbacks of car journeys, followed by a specific question: How could car travel be improved?
Then, give out copies of the activity which has the following elements: pre-listening, listening, post-listening.
April 6th, 2007 — Public Files
These are short dictation activities that you may want to use to change the pace of a class, support lower level students or to introduce variety.
There are four activities:
1. A basic dictation activity taken from the back of Totally True 1
2. Fill in the gaps - key vocabulary
3. Fill in the gaps - articles, prepositions, connectors, unstressed syllables etc
4. Find the mistakes
These are based on the dictation activities, but the same principle can be applied to the main reading section at the start of each unit.
You may want to ask your students, individually or in pairs, to attempt to fill in spaces or guess the mistakes before the listening.
Richard Hawkins & Damon Brewster
TT1 Dictation Activities Spring.doc
March 21st, 2007 — Public Files
If you plan to generate your own materials to augment Totally True 1, you may find these documents useful. They relate to units 1 - 9.
Texts: The main reading passage from each unit. (Word .doc)
Vocabulary: Vocabulary list (Text .txt)
If you do create any materials, it would be great if you could upload them to OEKS, or give a copy to someone in the Level 1 coordination team.
August 20th, 2006 — Public Files
Here is a Word document containing the text of the main readings in chapters 10 ~ 18. It may help in the generation of other supplementary materials.
Here is a zip file archive of the crossword puzzles for ch 10 ~ 18. The puzzles are in PDF format.
Totally True 1. Autumn. Crossword puzzles
On the elpweb Resources site (foundation/level 1/reading) you can find:
Crossword puzzles
For example…
Cloze quizzes
For example…
‘Learn more‘ More information about the people in the reading passages.
For example…
July 9th, 2006 — Public Files
This is the same format as the previous review lesson I posted.
The aim of this lesson is to review most of the key vocabulary presented in lessons five to eight. It is also meant to be a way of getting students mentally and physically active (pair work, followed by group work as teams), and a ‘fun’ way of reviewing language.
There are three activities and I have suggested approximate times that each should take based on experience using similar activities in previous classes.
• Review 1 – Pair work - Jigsaw reading (35 minutes)
• Review 2 – Group work (combine pairs from Review 1) Crossword (15 minutes)
• Review 3 – Quiz (Snatch) (35 minutes)
April 18th, 2006 — Public Files
A worksheet to help your students to familiarize themselves with Totally True 1.
Word .doc version (you can edit it if you like) - Worksheet and Answer sheet
Totally True 1. Scavenger Hunt. doc
PDF version - Worksheet and Answer sheet
Totally True 1. Scavenger Hunt. PDF
March 11th, 2006 — Public Files
Downloadable tests (and answers) for every unit of the Totally True textbooks are available at the following website. You can also download answer keys for exercises in the Student Books.
Totally True
NB: The material downloads as PDF files - these can be viewed and printed, but they are password protected to prevent the text being copied.