B2 Vocabulary

FIRST

4A Phrasal verb planets

Aim B2
FIRST Vocabulary
to practise phrasal verbs

4A Phrasal verb planets ON

Activity type
game involving preposition identification AT

Classroom dynamics
DOWN
pairwork or groups of three
OUT
Time taken
UP
15 minutes

Preparation
1 I was brought in the north east of England.
You will need one copy of the activity sheet for each pair or 2 You should check the new film — it’s great!

group with the bottom part cut into tokens. 3 We need to come up some new ideas for the project.
4 You need to grow and stop acting like a child!
5 It’s so hot today! I’m going to have a swim to cool . WITH
Procedure 6 Since I lost my job, I haven’t had a lot of money to live
7 I couldn’t find my keys for ages, but they turned
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under the sofa!

1 Divide the rocket tokens equally among the students. 8 We need to figure a solution to this issue!
9 I needed you and you really let me — I’m so cross!
Instruct students to write their initials on each of their 10 What really stands is the artist’s focus on colour.
tokens so that they can be identified. 11 If you want to be the best at something, you have to work it for a long time.
12 I’m picking a lot of new skills in my new job.
2 Student A reads the first sentence. Having done so, they
put all their tokens onto what they think is the correct
preposition to complete the sentence. They may divide
the tokens as they wish between prepositions. The other
students then follow in turn, adding their own tokens.
The teacher gives the correct answer and students keep
only the tokens which were in the correct circle, losing PHOTOCOPIABLE © Pearson Education Limited 2020 16
any tokens in the wrong circle(s). Student B then reads
the next sentence, placing their tokens first this time.
Students work down the list of sentences in turn. The
teacher circulates to check students’ understanding and
memory of the phrasal verbs.
3 Once all the sentences have been completed, the
student with the most tokens left is the winner.

Adaptation and extension

• Students can be encouraged to make their own
sentences to add to those provided. These new
sentences would then be read out in the same way,
but the student who had written it wouldn’t place their
tokens in that round.
• After each round, the student who has lost the most
tokens on that question has to make their own sentence
with the phrasal verb in question. If the sentence is
correct, they win back one token.

Answer key
1 up 7 up
2 out 8 out
3 with 9 down
4 up 10 out
5 down 11 at
6 on 12 up

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