B1 Grammar

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4C Articles, quantifiers and determiners – The missing article

Aim B1
PRELIMINARY Grammar
to practise the use of articles

4C Articles, quantifiers and determiners –

Activity type The missing article
a competitive group activity in which students complete the
gaps to win points 0 I have a friend who is very honest.

Classroom dynamics 1 She has never studied in UK before.

pairwork
2 Barcelona is one of best cities in Europe for skateboarding.

Time taken
3 Life in capital can be hard when you are student.
10–12 minutes

Preparation 4 I don’t have brother or sister – I’m only child.

You will need one copy of the activity sheet for each pair, 5 mobile phones must be on silent in class so that people
folded, with the example showing. don’t get distracted.

6 I read interesting blog yesterday. In blog the writer discussed

Procedure my favourite programme.

1 Divide the students into pairs and give one activity sheet 7 I always make effort to do exercise every morning when I get up.
to each pair.
2 Ask students to look at the example (0). Explain that there 8 Excuse me, is this way to football stadium?
are ten sentences in total (one under each fold), each
with a missing article. They have around half a minute to
9 If you know better way to organise event, please tell me!
read sentence 1 and write the correct article to complete
it. If students think the space should have no article, tell
10 person who phoned earlier left you message.
them to write a dash (–).
3 Once the time is up go through the answer as a class, PHOTOCOPIABLE © Pearson Education Limited 2020 19

awarding points to the teams that answered correctly.

Answer any questions or correct errors during feedback.
4 Repeat steps 2–3 for the other questions.
5 At the end of the activity, the pair with the most points is
the winner.

Adaptation and extension

In a stronger group, each pair can write one or two
sentences to read aloud to the class for others to complete
with the correct article.

Answer key
1 the
2 the
3 the, a
4 a, a, an
5 –, –
6 an, the
7 an
8 the, the
9 a, an/the
10 The, a

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