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SECOND EDITION
Penny Ur
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Contents
Introduction ı
2 Practice 6
Validity 6
Quantity 7
Success-orientation 7
Heterogeneity 8
Interest 9
Summary ı0
3 Activities ıı
Features of activity design ıı
Practical tips 24
Part 2: Activities 27
1 Adjectives 27
ı.ı ADJECTIVE BEFORE THE NOUN 27
ı.ı.ı Guessing adjectives 27
ı.ı.2 Inserting adjectives 28
ı.ı.3 The same tastes 29
ı.ı.4 Adjective poem 3ı
ı.2 COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES 32
ı.2.ı Adjectives on the Internet 32
ı.2.2 Brainstorming comparisons 33
ı.2.3 Bigger, better, faster! 36
2 Adverbs 44
2.ı MANNER ADVERBS 44
2.ı.ı How can you do it? 44
2.ı.2 Miming adverbs 45
2.2 FREQUENCY ADVERBS 47
2.2.ı Frequency surveys 47
2.2.2 What do you do when ...? 49
3 Conditionals 50
3.ı Finishing conditional sentences 50
3.2 Chains of events 52
3.3 Superstitions 53
3.4 Justifying actions 54
3.5 Looking back 56
3.6 I wish ... 57
4 Future tenses 59
4.ı FUTURE WITH GOING TO 59
4.ı.ı Mickey’s diary 59
4.ı.2 Finding a time to meet 62
4.ı.3 Future of a picture 63
4.ı.4 Mime continuation 67
4.2 FUTURE WITH WILL 68
4.2.ı Future of an object 68
4.2.2 How will the story end? 69
4.2.3 Horoscopes 70
4.2.4 The world tomorrow 7ı
4.3 THE FUTURE PERFECT TENSE 72
4.3.ı By six o’clock 72
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5 Imperatives 73
5.ı Please! 73
5.2 Directions 74
5.3 Recipes 76
5.4 Dos and don’ts 77
5.5 Symbols 78
5.6 Suggestions 80
6 Indirect speech 8ı
6.ı INDIRECT STATEMENTS AND QUESTIONS 8ı
6.ı.ı Can you remember what they said? 8ı
6.ı.2 Reporting interviews 82
6.ı.3 Correspondence 83
6.ı.4 People used to believe ... 84
6.ı.5 Need to know 85
6.2 INDIRECT COMMANDS 86
6.2.ı They told me 86
6.2.2 What’s she telling him? 87
7 Interrogatives 9ı
7.ı ‘YES/NO’ QUESTIONS 9ı
7.ı.ı Guessing 9ı
7.ı.2 Common denominator 93
7.ı.3 Questionnaires 95
7.ı.4 Don’t say yes or no 97
7.2 ‘WH-’ QUESTIONS 99
7.2.ı Find someone with the answer 99
7.2.2 Quizzes ı03
7.2.3 Your own comprehension questions ı05
7.2.4 Paired cloze ı06
7.3 ALL TYPES OF QUESTIONS ı09
7.3.ı Dialogues ı09
7.3.2 Wrangling ııı
7.3.3 Beat the clock ııı
7.3.4 Answer with a question ıı2
7.3.5 Filling in forms ıı3
7.3.6 Preparing interviews ıı6
7.3.7 Long subjects ıı7
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9 Modals ı27
9.ı Guessing by abilities ı27
9.2 Uses of an object ı28
9.3 Desert island equipment ı29
9.4 Games and their rules ı3ı
9.5 Rules and recommendations ı32
9.6 Duties and privileges ı33
9.7 Modal symbols ı34
9.8 Dilemmas ı36
9.9 Being polite ı38
9.ı0 Deductions ı39
9.ıı Evidence ı40
9.ı2 Then and now ı42
10 Negatives ı43
ı0.ı Erasing picture dictations ı43
ı0.2 What’s the difference? ı44
ı0.3 Picture differences ı47
ı0.4 Questionnaires with negative answers ı52
ı0.5 Don’t say no ı54
ı0.6 Negative hints ı55
ı0.7 Discrepancies ı55
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12 Numbers ı84
ı2.ı CARDINAL NUMBERS ı84
ı2.ı.ı Telephone numbers ı84
ı2.ı.2 Address book ı86
ı2.ı.3 Number dictation ı86
ı2.ı.4 Numbers that are important to me ı87
ı2.2 ORDINAL NUMBERS ı88
ı2.2.ı Significant dates ı88
ı2.2.2 Getting in order ı89
13 Passives ı90
ı3.ı Passives on the Internet ı90
ı3.2 What is done – and who by? ı9ı
ı3.3 Describing changes ı92
ı3.4 Writing it up ı96
ı3.5 What’s being done? ı96
ı3.6 Election campaign ı97
ı3.7 It can be done ı97
ı3.8 By men, by women, or by both ı98
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15 Possessives 233
ı5.ı Statues 233
ı5.2 Who is lying? 234
ı5.3 Family tree 235
ı5.4 Whose is it? 237
ı5.5 Distributing goods 238
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16 Prepositions 240
ı6.ı Where were you? 240
ı6.2 On the table 24ı
ı6.3 In on at 243
ı6.4 Guessing locations 244
ı6.5 Describe and arrange 245
ı6.6 Where would you like to live? 247
ı6.7 Preposition poem 248
ı6.8 Who’s she talking to? 249
18 Pronouns 277
ı8.ı Reverse guessing (2) 277
ı8.2 It’s automatic! 278
ı8.3 Who are they? 28ı
ı8.4 Yourselves or each other? 283
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Index 3ı9
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Heartfelt thanks to Michael Swan for punctilious editing and lots of good
ideas.
1.1.4 Adjective poem and 16.7 Preposition poem are based on the ideas of
Vicki L. Holmes and Margaret R. Moulton, Writing Simple Poems: Pattern
Poetry for Language Acquisition, (200ı), Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press 200ı reproduced with permission.
1.2.5 Preferences is an activity I learnt from Mario Rinvolucri.
7.2.4 Paired Cloze makes use of material from Practice Your Unseens 3 by
Jack Baum and Michael Toben. © ı994 Eric Cohen Books Ltd.
Finally, my particular gratitude to my in-house editors, Claire Cole and
Alyson Maskell for their punctilious editing, professional approach and
unending patience. They suggested substantial improvements and
eliminated a large number of slips and inconsistencies. Any remaining
mistakes are my own responsibility.
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