PHOTOCOPIABLE ACTIVITIES MYSELF, YOURSELF, OURSELVES, EACH OTHER GO GREEN Use after: Lesson 24 about 20 minutes ne photocopy for every student Instruction: 1 Divide the class into groups of four and allocate one student as the TV presenter and the other three as guests on the show. 2 Explain that students are going to act out a TV show about going green. 3 Give out a copy of the role-cards to each group. Give them time to read through their role-cards. 4 Revise reflexive pronouns myself, yourself, ourselves, each other, etc. from Lesson 24, eg. I myself didn’t use to watch television a ot. We wash our clothes ourselves. My {friends and | cook for each other. 5 Give students ten minutes to act out their radio show. Encourage them to be light- hearted and embellish their conversation, 6 When everyone has finished, get whole-class feedback on their use of the target, language. 7 Finally, choose a group of students to act out their show in front of the class or, if possible, get students to record their programmes.* - Student A You are a TV presenter on a breakfast show. Today you are talking to members of the public about how they have made their lives ‘greener You have invited three guests to come on the show and talk about their green lifestyles. First of all, you must introduce the show and the guests. Start the programme with: Hello and welcome to the Breakfast Show. As word leaders ‘re meeting this week to discuss reducing corbon emissions, we will be talking to three guests who have their own ideas about how to go green. ! would like to welcome Ask the guests: What do you do for yourselves now that you didn't use todo? How do you help each other? What has your biggest challenge been? Student C You are Headteacher ina ‘green’ school. Your school has won a prize for the greenest school, + have a wind turbine and solar panels which produce some electric power for yourselves ‘* encourage parents to help each other to get children to school by having a car-sharing scheme + teach students to cycle safely by themselves so that they can come to schoo! by bike, You and your students: + keep your own chickens and use the eggs in school meals + grow your own fruit and vegetables and use them in school meals + recycle and reuse as much as possible yourselves, eg, by reusing paper + remind each other to turnoff the tap when washing your hands Your biggest challenge: + installing the wind turbine andthe solar panels The children's biggest challenge: + turing off the taps when washing hands that's why you encourage them to remind each other Student B You are sixteen and your family moved to a green community last year. You: + havea wind turbine and solar panels which produce ‘enough electric power for yourselves + wash your clothes yourselves without a washing machine ‘+ wash yourselves in water heated on the stove + read and play games to amuse yourselves (not watch television or play computer games). You and your neighbours: + cook for each other + help each other to repair things + play musical instruments to each other (instead of listening to your MP3 player Your biggest challenge: + not being able to have a shower ora bath Your family's biggest challenge: + not having the TV and computer Student D You are an office worker in a ‘green’ office. You started a campaign in your office to make it a greener place. You: + only fill the kettle with enough water for yourself You and your co-workers: + collect your own water for offce plants using a water butt ‘on the office terrace + keep yourselves warm in winter by wearing big jumpers instead of turning the heating up + bringin a glass and a cup for yourselves so you don't need tose plastic cups + take turns to bring in lunch for each other + email each other instead of printing on paper + goand tak to each other instead of emailing -it saves electrical energy and it’s good exercise + remind each other to turn off computers and lights. Your biggest challenge: * cooking lunch for everyone difficult because you're used to thinking only of yourself Your co-workers’ biggest challenge: + remembering to turn off computers and lights1B Can you prove it? Parworcand whole dass Stodets conducts sueyto ‘one worksheet for each student inthe dass ~ Give out the worksheets. Elicit the answer for statement 128, an example. Explain that (by) themselves is sometimes used instead of himself/herself when the singular subject is a ‘Word like someone, no one, one person. ~ Give the students 3-5 minutes to complete the statements before checking with the whole class. ~ Divide the students into pairs to discuss whether they think ‘each of the statements is true or false about the class. They record their answers in the Your guess column. ~ Explain that the students are now going to find out whether the statements are true or false. According to the size of your class, allocate the statements so that each student has one, ‘two, or three statements to survey. Elicit an example question, eg One person hates looking at ‘themselves in the mirror.~ Do you hate looking at yourself in the ‘mirror? Check students know how to use anyone to ask about statements with each other, eg, Two people inthe class live rnext door to each other ~ Do you live next door to anyone in the class? Give the students time to prepare their question(s). ~The students mingle and use their question(s) to survey everyone in the class and complete the Survey results column. ~ At the feedback stage, go through each statement to find out whether itis actualy true or false. Ask the students to give ‘examples to back up what they say.Can you prove it? 1 Complete the statements with these words. ‘themselves by themselves each other 2 No one has been on holiday 4 Two people in the class sometimes talk to ___________ on, the phone. 6 Two people in the class taught how to play the guitar, without having lessons. 7 One person sometimes records 8 ee a aes 10 Two people in the class met before the lesson today. 12 Lots of people use English to communicate with between lessons. ‘Your guess T (true) or F (false) 1 tou! oF te 2. Discuss with a partner whether you think each statement is true or false. Then survey the class to prove or disprove the statements.