UNIT 16 Pc
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Elementary
Information pool
Personal belongings
Pairs
10 minutes
Worksheets A and B
{one per student)
112
Vocabulary
ouns. (baseball) bal, crayons, train, backpack, sweater, skotes, sunglasses, aeroplane, gloves, car
Comments
‘This contextualized and task-onented information gap actmty 1s meant for practising sas an adjective
and pronoun, plus questions with whose, The worksheet comes with illustrations so that learners may
Point at the objects while formulating questions about who they belong fo, Ths, we have found, helps
learners to focus on the meaning ol the questions
Language output
2A: Whose boctpock 1 ts?
B: That's Alice’ (backpack)
{Av And which group Alice in?
B: She's n Lindo’s (group)
Procedures
1 Before class, cut the worksheets in half as indicated. Reserve the top half (worksheet A) tor hall of
the class, and the bottom hall (worksheet 8) for the other half ofthe clas,
2 Using the weshees, ec and mode! the language in Longuage output As you g9 along, build
the skeleton on the board, because the target questions may sill be difficult for element
learners to handle all by themselves. Make sure they can understand and use the -'s both as ar
adyectwe and 2s a pronoun,
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Par off students with worksheets & and B,
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Sel the context and task by teling your class: You are teaching assistonts in o chil
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Check who the objects belong to and which group each child s in, Put the objec
the children’s names below th
the nght
boxes by wntn
he boxes.
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Students ask and answer the questions in Language output to pool the iniormanon
reed to accomplish ther task. As they obtain the information needed, they
Inidren’s names nex to the objects they own and below the appropriate boxes
Together, students compare their decisions, that 1s, where they
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wrote the children's names.
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Ben Meggie
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Greg Olivia
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Alice Linda
Cindy Nancy
Frank Meg
Hector Linda
Jane Linda
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