20 | turgroup 2) * Pairwork. Put students into A and B paits. Give Student ‘Aa minute to think of how to describe the person in the class they have chosen. Give Student B a minute to prepare the questions. « Student B asks questions and Student A describes someone in the class. © When Student B has guessed the person, they change roles. SPEAKING 1 © coi ic ties, Student's Book, pages 13: « Lead in by checking that students know the famous people in the task. (See Cultural notes below.) Write the people's names on the board and ask students to tell you what they ‘know about them. «+ Pairwork. Put students into A and B pairs. Student A turns to page 132 in the Student's Book and Student B tums to page 135 «+ Model the activity briefly by describing Student's fist picture to the class. Then tell students to take it in turns to describe thelr famous people. + In feedback, find out which pictures ofthe famous people are the same, and which are different. ‘Same: Penélope Cruz, Halle Berry Cultural notes « Elvis Presley (American 1937-1977). Known as the king of rock and roll. When young, in the 1950s, he was tall and slim, but later he became fat because of beer, drugs and fastfood, He died of a heart attack when he was 42 + Diego Maradona played international football for Argentina in the 1980s and 1990s, He was considered the ‘greatest footballer in the world in his time, and helped. “Argentina win the World Cup in 1986. Recently, he has been coach to the national team. + Penélope Cruz.isa Spanish actress who has become ‘a successful Hollywood star. Her best-known films are (Open your Eyes, Vanilla Sky, Volver and Vicky Cristina Barcelona. She recently married the actor Javier Bardem and has a child. « Halle Berry: American film star who won an Oscar® in 2001 for Monster's Ball and appeared in the James Bond movie Die Another Day in 2002. Methodology Builder 9 Spoken errors: fluency tasks 2 « Here are some further ideas for working on errors after «a fluency speaking task has finished. 1 Student teacher + Write the erors on the board. Geta student to come to ‘the board and be the teacher. Tet jb isnot to decide ‘about what is correct or incorec themselves, but to get the class to agree and note their decision on the board. Far this reason, don’t choose the strongest student to do this task. Instruct ‘the teacher’ and class that you will {010 the back ofthe rom, and tel the teacher that you don’t want them to call you until they are satisfied that 34 they have got all te correct answers on the board. Wile the class i working together force yourself to vanisha wile. Restrain yourself from the urge to constantly lielp {and correct: 2 Split ists This idea takes @ tittle time to prepare ~ but it's worth it. Use two sheets of paper headed A and B and ‘make a list of numbers 1-20 down each page. While ‘monitoring students doing the fluency actutty, write each error you hear randomly on either sheet A or B. ‘Where there is an error on A, leave a blank space on list B next to the corresponding number, and vice versa. ‘+ When you have time (or after class), go through the list and where there is an error in list A, write ‘a.corrected version ofthe sentence next tothe same ruraber in list B (and do the same for ervors in list B). Por example: A B 1 What's your name? 1 What your name is? 2 Ishe teacher? 2 Ishea teacher? «* Photocopy enough sheets so that half the students can have A and half B. ‘+ Inclass, give A to all the students in one part of the room and B to the other half. Tell them that the sentences are ones you heard while they were speaking. Make sure they understand that some sentences are correct and some are not. + Put students in pairs (both with the same worksheet) They must study their sheet and decide which are correct ~ and then correc the incorrect ones. © When they have finished, reorganize the pairs so that everyone now fas an A and a B in their pair. They should compare worksheets. Do they match? Do both students think a sentence is incorrect ~ or correct? Which one isthe correct answer? Students may find that they need to rethink their original decision at (this stage. ) Web research tasks © men + Students must research a famous person, and find pictures, of them now and when they were younger. They must write a comparative description of them. Web search key words © name of person/biography/images dology guidelines: Web res IF YOU WANT SOMETHING EXTRA .. © Straightforward Teac he