Teaching for Success: Learning and Learners

WEEK 2 KNOWING THE SUBJECT

Language practice activities

Video activities

Activity: Have you got a…? game (Primary)

Aim: To revise and practise asking and answering questions about pets, using ‘Have you
got a…?’ ‘Yes, I have’ ‘No, I haven’t’

Procedure: Ask learners if they have pets at home

Show pets flashcards one by one. Say the pets, learners repeat

Ask individual learners ‘Have you got a..?’ showing different flashcards. Elicit the
responses ‘Yes, I have’ ‘No, I haven’t’

Two learners sit back to back. One learner picks a flashcard

The other learner asks ‘Have you got a…?’ questions to guess the pet on the
flashcard

Change pairs and repeat

Timing: 10-15 minutes

Activity: Life experiences (Secondary and above)

Aim: To revise and practise asking and answering questions about people’s lives (past
simple and present perfect)

Procedure: Learners complete notes about their lives, in answer to prompts on the worksheet
(see next page)

Learners work in pairs. They take in turns to fold the paper in half, and show only
their notes to their partner. Their partner asks questions about why they wrote
these notes e.g. ‘Who is Marco? Why did you write Marco?’ ‘He’s someone I’ve
known for my whole life’

Ask two or three pairs to perform their conversations at the end of the activity

Timing: 20-30 minutes

Life experiences

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What have you done in your life so far?

Look at the prompts below and write notes in the circles.

1. The name of someone you’ve known for ten years

2. The best place you’ve visited
3. Something useful you’ve learned from the internet
4. An interesting story you’ve heard
5. Something you’ve bought recently
6. The name of someone you’ve met only a couple of times
7. A town or city you’ve visited more than once
8. The most disgusting food you’ve ever tried
9. A job you’ve never done

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