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Activity 2 Target Grammar Structure: Is/Are there a/any/anybody/anything...? There is a/nobody/nothing. Level of students: intermediate ESL students Duration: 30 min Instructions: Pre-task: (10 mins)

Teacher explains the instructions to students: one student will receive one picture and the other student will receive a similar picture. The two students are required to find out the missing objects in either of the pictures without seeing each others pictures . So, they need to ask questions to each other using the sentence structure: Is there any.../anyone in/at/on a certain place? Model the activity by using the sample pictures as below.

Teacher demonstrates sample sentences to students. For instance, student who has sample A can ask, Is there anyone in your picture?. Student who has sample B will respond, No, there isnt. Or student who has sample B may ask, Is there anything on the desk?. Student who has sample A may answer Yes, there is a telephone on the desk.

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Task: (15 min) Start the activity by asking students to alternate number 1 or 2 according to their seating.

Give picture A to students who get number 1 and picture B to students who get number 2. (If the number of the entire student population is odd, teacher will join the activity).

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Questions and sentence structures that we expect students to practice: 1. Q: Is there anybody in the toilet? A: Yes, there is a woman in the toilet./ No, there is no one in the toilet. 2. Q: Is there anything on the table? A: Yes, there are a wallet and a clock on the table./ No, there is nothing on the table.

Teacher can walk around the classroom and check how students are doing.

Post-task: (5 min)

Teacher calls student to reconvene and ask students to report their findings. Teacher can model their reports by eliciting questions. For instance, teacher can say what does both pictures have? and ask students to answer in a complete sentence, Both pictures have ... . Teacher can also ask Is there anything picture A has, but picture B doesnt? Students answer in a complete sentence structure: Picture A has , but picture B doesnt have ..., or Picture B doesnt have , but picture A has ... .