First Certificate Masterclass

Unit 1 Extra activity

Flatmates
1 Ask your partner the following questions and make a note of their answers in the
Partner column.

QUESTIONS

PARTNER

a What type of music do you prefer?

b What is your favourite take-away food?
c What do you do at weekends?
d Would you describe yourself as a tidy person?
e What is your favourite drink?
f How often do you go to parties?
g Whats your favourite TV programme?
h How often do you use the phone?
i Are you a morning or an evening person? Why?
j What is your most annoying habit?
k How would you describe your style of dress?
l What kind of car do you drive?
m What makes you laugh?
n What kind of films do you prefer?
o How often do you do any physical exercise?
p When was the last time you complained about something?
q How would your best friend describe you?

2 Do you think you and your partner would make good flatmates? Why? Why not?

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First Certificate Masterclass

Unit 1 Teachers notes and key

Flatmates
Activity

Pairwork

Aim

Students practise giving personal information.

Time

1520 minutes

Number of students Any

Before class

Photocopy enough worksheets for each student in your class.

Procedure
1 Ask students the following questions:
Have you ever lived with anybody apart from your family?
Does living with people create any problems? What kind?
Are men or women easier to live with? Why?
Give out the worksheets and preteach any new vocabulary (take away food/style of
dress/complain/annoying/tidy). Organise students into pairs and tell them to take
it in turns to interview each other, making brief notes in the Partner column.

2 When they have finished discussing the questions, ask them to decide if they would
make good flatmates. Get feedback on the activity by asking who would make good
flatmates.

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