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p Festival resources - 1 Harvest Festival

§» Students work in their groups. They take it in turns to ask, answer and complete the ‘Friends’ columns for each group member.

How long h a v e y o u h a d y o u r s ch o ol hag?

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I ’ve h a d my hag f o r a year.

H ave y o u ever been to a p o p concert?

No, I haven't. g) iMove round, prompting and correcting. Encourage students to use complete sentences. ^ They continue until they have information about everyone in the group. Extension: Ask a confident student to repeat after you I ’ve p la y e d the gu itar, and to add another sentence in the present perfect, e.g. ... a n d I ’ve been to a p o p concert. Ask another student to repeat the two sentences and to add another one. Continue asking different students to repeat and add. If a student hesitates or gets the order wrong he/she loses his/her turn. Answer key: 1 How long have you lived in your house? 2 Have you ever helped anyone in the street? 3 Have you ever played the guitar? 4 How long have you had your school bag? 5 Have you ever done anything scary? 6 Have you ever met an English person? 7 How long have you been at school today? 8 Have you ever got someone’s autograph? 9 Have you ever been to a pop concert? 10 Have you ever been to an Internet cafe? 11 and 12 Students’ own answers.

Photocopiable resource 9 - Friends

Objective: To practise asking for and giving advice with should. Organisation: Students work in pairs. ^ Carry out this activity after lesson 9a of the

Students’ B ook. ^ Give each pair a set o f problem cards. They place the cards face down on the desk. There are fifteen problems. & The students take it in turns to take and read out a problem. They discuss the problem.

H e sh ou ld s p e a k to his d a d b efore his d a d sp ea k s to the teacher!

He sh ou ld study more.

He sh ou ld s p e a k to his mum. & They write down one piece of advice for each. £ Go through the problems with the class. Take a class vote on the best advice for each problem and give a point for each winning pair. §j^ The pair with the most points is the winner. E x te n sio n : Each student imagines another problem and asks the group for advice. They can vote on whose problem is the most difficult to resolve.

Photocopiable resource 10 - Time Travel

Objective: To review various grammatical structures from Units 1-10. Organisation: Students work in pairs. Preparation: Bring a non-transparent bag to class, e.g/a plastic bag. §$> Carry out this activity after lesson 10c o f the

Students’ B ook. & Each student has a copy of the resource sheet. Ten sentences are grammatically incorrect. & The pairs discuss each sentence and decide which are correct and which are incorrect.

Check answers. Pairs get a point for each right/ wrong sentence they have correctly identified.

Pairs correct wrong sentences to win two bonus points. Before you begin, ask each pair to write their names on one small piece o f paper which they put in the non-transparent bag you’ve brought

Ask a volunteer to take a paper from the bag to decide which pair to ask. ^ The pair with the most points wins. Answer key: 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20 are correct. C orrected sentences 2 Have you ever been to the USA? 5 AJ doesn’t like insect juice very much. 6 Some people don’t like science fiction programmes. 7 Monica made me a really nice birthday cake. 9 I didn’t see last w eek’s programme. 12 You shouldn’t be mean to friends. 13 Did you go to school yesterday? 14 What are you doing? Stop! 17 Robots won’t play football in the future. They can’t! 18 I heard a funny noise last night.

Photocopiable resource - End ©f Year Quiz

Objective: To revise language and structures from the course through an end-of-year quiz. Organisation: Students work in pairs. $ Carry out this activity at the end o f the course. ^ Give each pair a copy o f the quiz sheet. Explain that they must work together to answer all the questions. They may need to look back through their Students’ B o o k to find some of the answers.

Remind students to write complete sentences

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