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Typical questions

1. Give them these typical questions, a four-year-old child may ask, e.g. ‘Mummy, does the moon go for a wee-wee?’ ‘Where did I come from?’ 2. Ask each student to write half a dozen questions (or answers) such a person might ask (and an adult answer).

At the time of the photo

1. Ask the students to bring in a photo of themselves and bring one yourself. 2. Show your own photo and say: What you are doing at the photo, What you have just done before it was taken, What you will do immediately after. 3. Ask the students to write the 3 sentences in the same way about their photos. 4. Then students tell the sentences to their neighbors. 5. The neighbors tell their partners’ sentences in reported speech: John said that he was fishing at the photo.

Sentence ladder

1. The teacher writes on the blackboard 6 words from the active vocabulary students have recently learnt.
2. The task of the class is to use all these words in the same order in one long sentence.

Different roles

1. Write the following questions on the board: Who/what does/did your best friend want you to be/do? Who/what does/did your father want you to be/do? Who/what does/did your girlfriend/boyfriend want you to be/do? Who/what does/did your mother want you to be/do? Who/what does/did your brother/sister want you to be/do? Who/what does/did your teacher want you to be/do? Who/what does/did your subordinate want you to be/do? Who/what does/did your boss want you to be/do? Who/what does/did your conscience want you to be/do?
2. Tell the students to answer the questions in writing - give them the patterns: X wants / doesn't want / didn't want / wanted me to…