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So, this month, ‘we bring you poster 1 that will help you to do L the review of the year’s contents or prepare the PRED® ‘inal oral exams in no time, oe poster consists of 20 photos showing everyday situations, will trigger your students’ imagination and discussions on ject suggested by them. all, you should cut out the pictures and laminate them. 2 easier to handle, last longer and become part of your mages for several purposes. some activities which you may adapt to different levels poses. What is the story? all the cards om a desk and ask students in pairs to pick up ictures they think are related. The students should put the in order and speak about what is/has happening/happened. to add a title to the story. decide to elicit vocabulary first in case your students need those words, Example: Wher John got up yesterday morning, he remembered his polo shirt needed troning. So, while he was having breakfast, he plugged the iron in and began to iron it. He was ironing it nicely when his mobile rang, What a surprise! It was Ross, his best friend! He wanted to tell him all about his new job. John was so enthusiastic about the good news that he forgot the hot iron on the shirt. Poor John! When he hung up, his favourite polo shirt was burnt! Breakfast time! Ask the students to pick up the pictures showing situations that may happen at breakfast time. ‘They should speak. about similar events that occurred to them or their family. ing my mum twas going to prepare scrambled exes for breakjus. She took some gs out ofthe ridge and when she was going to ppt them on the table, she efit — dropped one of them. She rt was quite angry becauseno time for cleaning. So, we had to be careful not to 2 broken. egg and stip down! scribe the picture and Ill tell you something! Divide the students into small groups or pairs. One group or nt will describe a picture without identifying i The other up or student will pick up the picture and make up a story ng the situation suggested Example: Group/student A: It is dark. There is a colourful plastic ball in a wimuming pool. | Group/student B: Ir was very hot today, so we spent this afternoon swimming pool. We took our swimming suits, goggles, caps, Rip-flops and a red and yellow plastic ball. We swam a lot and red games. It was fun! Tomorrow, if the weather is nice, we sul go back because we forgot our ball. We hope we find t Love is in the air! Ask the students to group the pictures related to love, They may 10 romantic love, love for pets, friends, freedom, etc. The students should compare the photographs, express simi and differences, In these two pictures there dare two couples, One couple is younger than the other. Both ‘couples are in love. In this picture, the girl is giving a bunch of Rowers to her boyfriend. Perhaps, itis his birthday or they quarrelled the previows day and she ts apoiogising. Her boyfriend looks pleased, bur he is not taking the flowers, In the other picture, the old couple is on the beach. The weather is not so hot because they are wearing warm clothes. They lool together and having a good time because they are hu and laughing, Take these as examples of some of the activities by the students. You may want to present them as a way o taining your students for the oral exam, when y picture to every student and make them descr about their ideas, feeling: ester 2 presents further possbilties to assess elementary and presintermediate students’ oral. | proficiency. The pictures show people enjoying | free time activities. Below each picture, there are some prompts to help students make sentences | about the people: their name, age, jab and crite free time activities. You can have students use the mation inthe cards of in ease you alm at free speaking ites, hide it by folding the text strips behind the images. cae can also serve other purposes, like presentation, 2 or revision of different language items: ‘The Present Simple tense to express habits and routines. trast hetwveen the Present Simple and the Present sive, when referring to habitual and/or current activities. verb tenses: the Simple Past, Past Progressive, Present Past Perfect. ‘ems: jobs and professions, free time activities. jonal language: identifying, talking about age, occupations 's may have to make sentences about the people in the | their name, age, job and what they do in their free in their descriptions they might use adverbs of frequency {ways, usually, often, sometimes, never Mark Smith is 25 years old. He is an architect. He usually designs buildings. In his free time, he likes paragliding, ‘When describing people, they might compare what they do every day in their jobs and what they are doing at the moment. Example: Susan Brown is a doctor. She works in a hospital. At the moment she isn't working, She is playing tennis. 1's her favourite sport.also make up a story using, pis and the photo contexts, Ann Jones is a teacher. She teaches maths school. In her free time she tikes ardening, ast week her cousin Brenda invited her to end a week in the country. She enjoyed er stay a lot. She relaxed, walked, fed the animals and picked lots of flowers. ore advanced students can present a uation about the pictures, using the Past Simple and Past Progressive tenses. For ple, expanding the situation above, y could add more details to like this: le she was picking the flowers her came and asked her to help with the ning. Her stay was great! owing are some tips to carry out sxcolled language practice or to assess = of the school cycle. Hide the text strip ech card, Put students in pairs; give 2 photo and each individual gapped copy of the cards on page tion. Taking turns, they ask each estions until they complete the sing information on their cat ‘communicative competence at the Example: Students ask and answer questions like the following, Student B: ach student has only part of the Whae's her name? Student A: Ana Pietra How old is she? Student B: 37 Name: Ana Pietra seua diving What does she do? / What's her job Student A: She's a newsreader, What is she daing now? Student B: She is scuba diving, What does she do on her free tim Student A:Zud-C\\ea ets A) aifls hhe year is coming to an end and itis time to organise D our students’ work using cute easily made folders and surprise them with special gifts to take home. jow are some simple and inexpensive ideas hold the students’ annual production; cardboard and Eva foam to make Deautiful folder to store students” ‘work. Fasten with a brass paper ener. Add colourful decorations as these cute bugs and flowers. tify each folder writing the child’s name, the class and the year. As 2 variant you may use paper spping bags for the same purpose. 2 cardboard sheet to eover the ; add some decorations or als with coloured glue or paint. Punch two holes on side and fasten with rings or lace. ‘As 2 gift you may a ‘want to pick out one of the following: 4 ‘Assweet candy box ‘made of a round plastic ox decorated with a heart and some ribbon. A graceful clown, made out of a plastic =~ A personalised ‘sotebook and pen set oped by stars, spped in a plastic nag tied with a length f ribbon, SS) cup and simple a decorations. Draw J the face with an GE indelible markers aa DS) abig nose and strips of paper for the hair. 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