All in a day
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice of do, get go, have, make, take in the context of All in a day
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification of language used for collocations in the context of All in a day
Procedure (24-44 minutes)
- T greets Ss - T asks Ss about their daily routine - T asks, Do you make the bed before leaving the house? Do you do the cooking? Do you do the cleaning? Do you do the laundry?
- T introduces Collocations. - T draws six columns on the board. T writes one of these verbs at the top of each column: do, get, go, have, make, take - T gives each Ss a copy of the vocabulary grid. - T tells Ss that each vocabulary item goes with one of the six verbs. - T elicits two examples and write them in the correct column. - T asks Ss to complete the table in pairs. - T monitors the answers
- T distributes gap-fill handouts - T asks Ss to answer the questions - T monitors Ss - T reviews answers
- T divides the Ss into groups of three or four. - T gives each group a copy of the board, a dice and a set of counters. Playing the game. - Ss take turns to throw the dice and move their counter along the squares. - when they land on a square, they make a sentence about a Ss in the group using the picture and the word in the square e.g. Ali I think you go swimming. - The other Ss have to decide the sentence is grammatically right or wrong, if the sentence is right, they stay where they are. If it is wrong, they go two squares back. - If a student arrives on a square with a ladder, they may go up if they make a grammatically correct sentence. - If they arrive on a square with a snake's head, they go down the snake. - The winner is the first Ss to reach square 30