1. No new clues in search for missing 6-year-old Arizona girl

2. South Sudan border town is bombed

3. Marathon woman died near finish

4. Marathon woman died near finish

5. Man arrested over toddler's death

Insert an article into the following headlines:

articles

Cooperative poems by writing noun phrases to practice articles:

DarknessAn owl callingThe world at rest.

articles

Guess out what it is by asking or saying its abilities:

Describer: It can climb tress.It can carry its baby.You can’t buy one in a shop.Guesser: Can it swim? Can you find one in China?

modals

Find original uses for a pen or tell us what

you can do with a pen:You can use it to dig holes.You can scratch your head with it.

You can hold it.You can put it on the table.

modals

If you are stranded in a desert and you have a pile of objects, you can keep those if you find a convincing use of them:

We can use the shirt as a flag to signal to ships. (If a shirt is chosen)

modals

Use can or must to describe the signs.

modals

1. You can’t go into the room.

2. You can’t drink the water.

3. You can take your dogs here.

4. You can’t smoke here.5. You can pass on either

side.6. You must be careful.7. You must drive slowly.8. You can take pictures

here.9. Cold spring10. You can’t drive over 12

kilometers per house

modals

11. You can park your car here.12. You can use the telephone here.13. You can use the stairs to go up or down.14. Walkers(Pedestrians) can go across the street.15. You can’t take your dogs here.16. You must stop here.17. You can use the water here to put out fire.18. You can use the things here because they are poisonous.19. You must go that way.20. You can smoke here.

modals

You have noticed your best friend cheating in an end-of-term exam. A lot of kids cheat, but you and your friends have always against it, up to now.

Use modals like must, have to, should, ought to, may, might, could to tell what you will do.

modals

A: Hey, you! Open this door!B: It’s locked. Want me to get the key?A. Yeah. Get it. Fast.

Turn it into a more polite one using modals:

A: Excuse me, would you open this door?

B: I’m afraid it’s locked. Shall I get the key?

A: Please, if you wouldn’t mind, as quickly as you can.

modals

Get someone to lend you some money politely using modals:

Excuse me. Could you do me a favor?Sure.I am wondering if you could lend me some money.Why are you borrowing moneyMy father is ill in hospital.Sure, I can help you.

modals

Then and now:

What you could do the, but can’t do.What you couldn’t /weren’t able to do, but can now.What you had to do then but don’t have to do now.What you didn’t have to do then, but must now.

modals

modals

Use modals to predict the objects and people in the

pictures they have:

She must be your mother or sister. It looks like you.That house might be in England.That can’t be you, can it?

Both…and, either…or, neither..nor

Give them two or three pictures. Stick one in the center of the board. If the student can give a point of similarity, she can stick his pic next to the center one.

A table may be stuck next to a dog because both the table and the dog have four legs.Both a pencil and a table are made of wood.

Drive Speak two languages

type Play an instrument

swim

Tony V X V X XJeff X V V X VSue V V X V XHeather

V X X V V

Both…and, either…or, neither..nor

1. Both Tony and Heather drive.2. Neither Tony or Heather speaks two languages.

Both…and, either…or, neither..norWho could…?

1…help move heavy furniture?2…sing the treble part in a song?3…advise you about University studies?4…cook a meal?5…drive you to the airport?1. Either Jenny or Tom could

help move heavy furniture?2. Both Li Ming and Danny

could cook a meal.

Comparison of adjectives

1. Advertisements are given.2. Instances of the

comparatives or superlatives are found and highlighted with a fluorescent pen.

Comparison of adjectives

1. Design a advertisement using comparatives and superlatives.

2. Act the advertisements.3. Choose a winner.

Comparison of adjectives

A garden rake, a ball, a pencil1. The pencil is smaller than

the rake.2. The ball is the roundest.3. The pencil is more useful

than the ball.Or: compare the students in your class.

Comparison of adjectives

1. Two pictures are given.2. Comparison is made.E.g. The girl in the first

picture is prettier than the girl in the second picture.

Comparison of adjectivesWhich one do you prefer? Why?1. snake, crocodile, spider2. mud, sand, rock3. waterfall, sea, lake

1. I prefer snakes to spiders because they are more colorful and graceful.

2. I prefer a lake to a waterfall because it is quieter.

Comparison of adjectives

rare

strong

fat big

LionssnakesmendogsDiscuss and put the nouns in order of rare, strong, fat, big

Comparison of adjectives

Marcaroni, ice cream, apples, yoghurt, salt, water, curry, fishE.G. 1. Ice cream is more fattening than yoghurt.2. Fish is the richest in protein.

Comparison of adjectives

Quizzes:Which is the highest mountain in the world?Which is longer, the Amazon or the Nile?Where are there more people: in Indonesia or Japan?Which is the smaller country: the Vatican or Nauru?Which can jump farther: a kangaroo or a horse?

Past simpleActivity one: Listen to storiesThe teacher tells a story in past simple. While telling the story, ask the students to translate irregular forms to the base words occasionally. After telling the story, ask the students to recall some sentences.

Past simpleActivity Two: Piling up eventsEach student gets a verb in the past tense.Teacher: Yesterday I went to town and I bought a loaf of bread.Student 1: Yesterday I went to town, bought a loaf of bread, and I sat on a park bench.Student 2: Yesterday, I went to town, I bought a loaf of bread, I sat on a park bench, and I stood at the bus stop.…

Past simpleActivity Three: Chain storyEach student gets a verb in the past tense.Teacher: Once upon a time there was a very old fishman who lived in a cave near the sea. Every day he went out in his little boat to catch fish. One day there was a terrible storm.Student 1: …and he could not go to sea in his little boat. “What can I do?” thought, “if I don’t catch any fish, I won’t have any money, or any food.”…

Past simpleActivity Four: Pictures into storyPut the picture story into words. (recode)

Past simpleActivity Five: Putting stories in order1.Give students a set of

pictures.2. Put them in order into make a

story.3. Recode them to words.4.Share the stories.

Past simpleActivity Six: Changes in one’s life1.Describe a change in the

teacher’s own life.2. Encourage the students to ask

your questions about that change.

3. Another student takes the turn.

4.Go on.

Past simpleActivity Seven: Story behind the photoStudents and the teacher bring to the class their own person photo1.Introduce the teacher’s photo

using past simple.2. Encourage the students to ask

your questions about that photo.

3. Another student takes the turn.

4.Go on.

Past simpleActivity Eight: Jigsaw or information gap story

They make the story whole by asking and answering questions.

Past simpleActivity Nine: Sounds interesting

1.Students listen to some kind of strange sound.

2.They construct a story incorporating the sound.

Past simpleActivity Ten: Alibi

1.Select a scene and time for a crime.

2.Two suspects go out. 3. The rest of the students are detectives. The detectives prepare questions to ask the suspects while the two suspects decide on what they did at the time of the crime.4. Interview5. Decide if they are guilty or innoncent.

Past simpleActivity Eleven: cooperative story/pass the buck

1.The title is given.2.Pass the buck with only the

writing of the previous student left open.

Numbers1. Students take turns to tell

their phone numbers.2. Meanwhile, the other Ss

jot down the numbers.Or: 3. Each students are given

several numbers with his number underlined.

4. Read his number while the other students jot down it, then read another one randomly.

Numbers1. Pass round a sheet and ask

students to write down their names and address.

2. Black out all numbers with correcting fluid. Make copies for each student.

3. In class, students fill in the missing numbers in their own address.

4. Class mingle to find out each other’s missing number. It stops when the first finish the job.

5. Read all the address.

Numbers

1. Dictate a number.2. Go to next number when

the last student finish it.

3. See how many you can get through in two minutes.

4. Break your record next time.

Numbers

1. The first dictate a number

2. The second another, and then everyone add the two numbers.

3. The third student dictate another, then every one add it to the total number in step 2

4. Go on…

Numbers

Dictate the exam result.

Reg came ninth in English.Second in math, and sixth in art.

Or: Ask each other their place in an exam in classroom mingle.

Numbers

1. Put students in a line.2. Then ask them to

rearrange themselves according to the dates of their birthdays.

Indirect Speech

1. Give each student a preferably different reporting interview in a newspaper.

2. Mark in fluorescent pen instances of indirect speech.

3. Read the selections aloud and guess the speaker or circumstances.

Indirect Speech

1. Interview a volunteer student to the front of the class about a hobby, an interesting experience, or future plan.

2. Write down in indirect speech what they can remember of what the interviewee said.

3. In a group produce a brief report.

Indirect Speech

1. Quotations are found.2. Quotation quiz is made.“Who said he could resist

everything except temptation” (Oscar Wilde)

3. Quizzes are exchanged and students try to answer them.

Indirect SpeechPaper messages exchanges:

A: Are enjoying the courses?B: It is all right…

They report it:I asked Anna if she was enjoying this course. She told me it was all right…

Indirect Speech

People used to believe that the world is flat.But now we know that the world is round.People used to believe that you could turn iron into gold.But now we know that gold is an element.I used to believe that there was ghosts in the world.But now I believe that there isn’t any.

Indirect Speech

Ask the students to introduce a beginner in a profession:

You would need to know how to swim.You would need to know a good place to sail. (sailing)

Indirect Speech

1. Pictures of people talking are given to the Ss.

2. Guess what they are saying:

He’s asking her to marry him and she’s telling him she won’t.