AUCTION: Do you dare to bid for true sentences?

SENTENCES BOUGHT BUDGET

1. The Plant Kingdom is composed of organisms with prokaryotic
plant cell.
2. Plants are both single-celled and multicellular.
3. Plants are autotrophs, because they carry out photosynthesis.
4. Many plants contain tissues and organs.
5. Mitocondria is the organelle where occurs photosyntesis.
6. The pigment essential in photosyntesis is the clorophyll.
7. To do photosyntesis, plants need sunlight, water, mineral salts
and oxygen.
8. Plants can’t move.
9. Plants can reproduce asexually and sexually.
10. The Plant Kingdom is above all composed of grasses, trees and
brushes.

KEY WORDS: Auction = Subasta / Bid for = pujar / Going going gone! = Vendida
INSTRUCTIONS:
This activity consisted in conducting an auction.
1. The students are into groups and give each group a sheet of sentences and their points limit (2000
points). There are true and false sentences but you don’t say how many true answers there are.

2. Ask the students to plan which sentences they are going to bid for.

3. Explain one student is in charge of write down in other piece of paper the sentences bought and
another student is in charge of write down the points left after every bought.

3. Conduct the auction in a brisk and fun way. You can use:

Who said 200 points?

I think I heard 350 points over there!

Going going gone!

400 points over here!

4. After all the sentences are sold, run through and get a class vote on which sentences are correct.
Confirm the answers.

5. Ask them to add up their points. Who has lost money on incorrect sentences?

6. Ask groups to decide why the sentences are not correct.