[TEACHER'S NOTES | Hi! How are you? Nats ate ound Type of activity Mime elicitation (charades). Aim To practise using the present perfect for news events Task To mime events. Preparation Copy and cut out cue cards ~ one set for each group, Timing 20-40 minutes Procedure 1. Invite a student to ask you ‘How are you?" Mime ‘Not too good’, to show that it’s bad news, then mime crashing your car to elicit the ‘I've crashed my cat’ sentence. The first student to come up with the sentence gets the card, After the demonstration explain the rules: ‘+ The game starts off with one of the team. asking, ‘How are you?" * The person with the card must be silent and explain the sentence with gestures. ‘+ The first person who says the complete sentence gets the card. 2 Put the students in groups of four or five and give each group a set of cards face down, Students take it in turns to take a card from the top of the pack, to mime and elicit the 3 After all the cards have been completed check who has won (the person with most cards in each team wins). Follow up Another competition can be played. Someone in the group takes a card and reads the news to the rest of the group. The group members take it in ‘tums to come up with different appropriate responses (How terrible. Iam sorry to hear that, ‘tc,), The first person to give an inappropriate response or no response at all gets the card, and restarts the game with another card, The person with the fewest cards at the end is the winner.I"ve crashed my car. Mycathashad I've passed my pees exams. I've won the lottery. I've just had a great I've just bought a My car’s been holiday. ' Wve lost my keys. new computer. stolen. Hil My brother's been I've just got a I"ve passed my thaven’t done my arrested for drink new job. driving test. English homework. driving. ye I've split up with I"ve just met my My goldfish hasdied. I've been ill recently. my fiancé(e). new boss.MIXED EMOTIONS Materials: Four copies of the worksheet, cut into cards To prepare for the activity, make enough copies of the worksheet to provide three or four cards per student. Cut up the cards, then shuffle them all together. Distribute three or four cards to each student. Tell Ss not to look at each other's cards Review the language for giving good and bad news and responding to it from unit 6.3. Give Ss a few minutes to think about how they wil tell people theit good and bad news, then ask them to walk around and share their news with other Ss Encourage $s to respond using the expressions in unit 6.3 and ask follow-up questions. When they have finished, elicit some Of the news they came up with. AAs an extension, Ss could discuss which of the situations have realy happened to them, and what happenedyour friend's Barty has been You're going on holiday nextAround town Vocabulary Present perfect simple ifcstly prompted by pictures Words en! expressions on stuanion cards: run out of, cbventmunded, spilled. tough luck, gore through a red ight, fire Intermediate or upper-totermediste = Cop entss “This game has been designed to relate past events with present results, and to previce much need Board game prachce of the present petlect simple to express such rclahoeshps. The acteaty 1s fun i that stimulates feamers’ imagination and acknowledges thew individual corttabutions. Recent experiences of rents Language output (A: What's happened to Bul? 2 He’ fal broke depressed. Geoups of two taste Ft ie corres 2 Because he has last aif bes maney 1 the stock market 20 minutes 4 Gee, that’s ton bad What's he going to do now? Idon't knew. Never buy stocks agam, t guess Board, set ofcards,and =» Procedures dice (one per group). erence - counters (one per stuient) 2 Before dass, cut out one set cl cards tor each gious. 2 We Bl is depressed on tne board. Chem pessible causes and we them te the let ofthe sentence, dewing students’ attention to the use of the present periect simple, e.g. He hrs fost is 100) Mes galleene hes left hr, ete Ven eho plausible futures actors that Bill might take: Medel he tgelJorguage wall several students 3 Dude the dass inte groups end hand out the matenal Playing the game: 1D. Mayers place thew counters at START, shuffle the cards and place thei face down on the table “There are two kinds of cards, The picture cards depict present resuits which students must anterpret (eg. Mana is very happy) and think of causes lor, using the present perfect simple (eg She hos been promoted to vcespresident). The situabon cars, on the other hand, provide input on the present perfect simple, plus the lurk element in the game, for they contain situzbons anc! instructions that may leed the player back to the beginning of the board. ‘or tass him or her closer to the FINISH peat B The fit player casts the cice ane! moves his or her counter accerdingy. fit lands on 2 shop, nothing happens, but if it lands on a house, the player picks card and tums it face up 50 ‘everyone can see what happening inside the house. Wits 3 picture card, the person tothe let of the player begms interaction wa him or her as shew in Language eutput. On the other bend, iF ts situation card the player simply reads aloud andl follows the insinictions ont Players take turns proceeding in this way. The fist player to get to (but not beyond) the FINISH point wins the game. Note on group size students are playing in paits of groups of three, use coins instead of dice. That way they wa move ‘one scjuare Cheads) of two squares (ails), and get more practice.Jessica Daniel and Bob \ ~ we soreYou've run out of petrol. How can you be so absent-minded? Go to the nearest | petrol station. Your sister has just had a baby. How about | getting her some | flowers? Go to the florist. Your cat has fallen off the roof again. You'd better take it to the vet to make sure everything is OK. You haven't eaten anything all day. Aren't you hungry? Go to the coffee shop for a sandwich. Tough luck! You've just missed the bus. Go to the taxi stand in front of the post office. Don't forget you've invited friends over for dinner. Go to the supermarket and get something for dessert You have spilled coffee all over your new jacket. Take it to the dry cleaner’s You have just gone through a red light What a shame! Go to the bank and pay the fine. You haven't talked to your mother today. She must be worried! There is a pay phone just outside the chemist.