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Cloud nine

Activity

Pair work, whole class, group work or individual work.

Students move along the playing field from Start to Finish, answering questions from the worksheets.

Focus

You may choose any of the following constructions to be the focus of the game:

• Present Simple (Worksheet A)

• Present Continuous (Worksheet B)

• Present Perfect (Worksheet C)

• Past Simple (Worksheet D)

• Means of expressing Future (Future Simple, ‘to be going to’, Present Continuous for arranged events) (Worksheet E)

Preparation

You can print one worksheet with questions per student and one playing field for all students. If your students can see a computer screen, they can play by looking at the screen instead of the printed work-sheets.

You will also need a coin and a set of bits representing each student to move along the playing field. They can be buttons, paper clips or any other small objects.

If you choose to play using a computer screen instead of the printed worksheets, you won’t need any objects to move along the playing field, but you will still need a coin. You will also need a piece of paper to write down the place where students stop after they make a move.

You will need a watch if you are going to play the game with an individual student.

Procedure

Pair work

• Explain that students are going to play a table game where they need to go from Start to Finish along

the playing field, answering questions for each step they make.

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• Hand out the worksheet with the questions you want to practice (Present Simple, etc). If you choose to play using a computer screen, only make sure all students can see the screen well.

• Divide your class into pairs.

• Hand out one playing field per pair.

• Students place their object on the Start step of the playing field.

• Students take turns in throwing a coin. If the coin lands heads up, the student moves her object one step forward along the playing field. If the coin lands tails up, the student moves two steps forward along the playing field.

• The student then reads the question from the worksheet for the step she moved onto. If she can an-

swer the question correctly, she stays on that step. If she can’t answer the question correctly, she moves back to the step she was on before.

• If your students don’t have printed worksheets and a playing field, and are playing using a computer screen, they write the step they stop on down on a piece of paper.

• All students should make an equal number of moves. This way it doesn’t matter who starts the game first.

• The student who gets to the Finish first is the winner.

Whole class

• Explain that students are going to play a table game where they need to go from Start to Finish along the playing field, answering questions for each step they take.

• Give the worksheets you want to practice (Present Simple, etc) to each student. If you choose to play

using a computer screen, only make sure all students can see the screen well.

• Place the playing field in the middle so that all your students can see and reach it.

• Students place their object on the Start step of the playing field.

• Students take turns in throwing a coin. If the coin lands heads up, a student moves her object one step forward along the playing field. If the coin lands tails up, a student moves two steps forward along the playing field.

• The student then reads the question from the worksheet for the step she moves onto. If she can an-swer the question correctly, she stays on that step. If she can’t answer the question correctly, she moves back to the step she was on before.

• If your students don’t have printed worksheets and a playing field, and are playing using a computer

screen, they write the step they stop on down on a piece of paper.

• All students should take an equal number of moves. This way it doesn’t matter who starts the game first.

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• The student who gets to the Finish first is the winner.

Group work

• Explain that students are going to play a table game where they need to go from Start to Finish along the playing field, answering questions for each step they take.

• Hand out the worksheet with the questions you want to practice (Present Simple, etc). If you choose to play using a computer screen, only make sure all students can see the screen well.

• Divide the class into groups.

• Each group places one object, which represents the whole group, on the Start step of the playing field.

• Groups take turns in throwing a coin. If the coin lands heads up, a student moves her object one step

forward along the playing field. If the coin lands tails up, a student moves two steps forward along the playing field.

• Students of one group take turns in reading and answering questions from the worksheet for the step the group moves onto. If the student, who is answering the question, answers the question correctly, the group stays on that step. If the student can’t answer the question correctly, the group moves back to the step the group was on before.

• If your students don’t have printed worksheets and a playing field, and are playing looking at the screen only they write the step they stop on down on a piece of paper.

• All groups should take an equal number of steps. This way it doesn’t matter which group starts the game first.

• The group which gets to the Finish first is the winner group.

VARIATION: Instead of choosing one student of the group to answer one question for the step, all stu-dents of the group answer the question one by one. The group then stays on a new step only if all mem-bers of the group answered the question correctly.

Individual work

• Explain that your student is going to play a table game where she needs to go from Start to Finish along the playing field, answering questions for each step she takes.

• Give your student the worksheet with the questions you want to practice (Present Simple, etc).

• Place a playing field in front of your student. If you choose to play using a computer screen, only make sure your student can see the screen well.

• The student then tells you how quickly she thinks she will go from Start to Finish.

• The student then places an object on the Start step of the playing field. Record the time when the game begins.









• The student throws a coin. If the coin lands heads up, the student moves her object one step forward along the playing field. If the coin lands tails up, the student moves two steps forward along the play-ing field.

• The student then reads and answers questions from the worksheet for the step she moves onto. If the student answers the question correctly, she stays on that step. If the student can’t answer the ques-tion correctly, she moves back to the step she was on before.

• If your student doesn’t have printed worksheets and a playing field, and is playing looking at the screen, she writes the step she stops on down on a piece of paper.

• If the student manages to get to the Finish in the planned time she wins.

Extra ideas

If you have only one student or one student without a pair for the game, you can play this game together with your student using the instructions from the pair work section.

The book also provides empty worksheets (F and G) in case you want to practise other constructions. You can write your own tasks there.









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How often do you read English newspapers or books? Do you often read something in English?

Do you often see your friends on weekdays? Do you spend every weekend with your friends?

3.How often do you watch TV? What do you do in the evening?

Do you like talking on the phone? Do you often use your phone? Do you prefer sending messages or making calls? What else do you use your phone for?

Can you make three questions starting with ‘Where do you...’?

Do you use Facebook? What do you like and dislike about Facebook?

Do you prefer coffee or tea? What’s your favourite food? What food do you never eat?

How often do you read or watch news? What news are you most interested in?

How often do you use public transport? What do you think about it?

Do you often travel to other countries? What’s your favourite destination? Do you normally travel on your own?

Are you interested in any kind of modern art? What do you like and dislike about modern art?

Do you ever buy lottery tickets? Do you know anybody who often buys them?

14.Do you like extreme sports? Do you do any extreme sports?

What are the things that you do on your typical workday?

4.What do you normally use the Internet for?

15.How often do you write emails?

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What’s happening around you at the moment?

What do you think your friend is doing now?

3.Is it raining now? What weather is it outside?

What are you doing at the moment?

What’s your teacher doing?

Is any electric device working now?

What’s happening on the street?

Is there anything interesting happening in the world these days?

Are you studying anything difficult this week?

Why are you answering these questions?

Is anything or anybody moving while you are speaking?

Who is listening to you?

14.Are you reading anything interesting this month?

Are you working a lot these days?

4.What do you think your neighbours are doing now?

15.Are you preparing for a test this week?

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What’s the weirdest film you’ve ever seen?

How many countries have you been to?

3.How many new words have you learned this week?

Have you ever met a famous person?

Have you ever tried Japanese food?

Have you tried anything new this year?

Have you ever received a strange present?

Have you ever lost something very important?

What’s the most boring book you’ve ever read?

What’s the funniest comedy you’ve ever watched?

What’s the most difficult subject you’ve ever studied?

Have you ever seen any dangerous animals?

14.Have you ever written a poem?

Have you ever broken a bone?

4. How many films have you seen this season?

15.Have you ever been to a concert?

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Where did you spend your previous vacation? Did you like it there?

When did you learn how to swim? Who taught you how to swim?

3.When and why did you start learning English?

When did you go shopping? Did you buy anything interesting?

Who did you meet on your way to the lesson? Did you talk to him or her?

When was the last time you went to the theatre? What did you watch? How was it?

When was the last time you celebrated anything? What did you do on that day?

When did you check your email?

What was the first foreign country you visited?

When was the last time you saw something funny? What was it? Who else saw it?

Did you learn anything new yesterday? What did you learn?

What did you do to celebrate your birthday last year?

4.What did you do at the weekend? Was it your typical weekend?

Did you call anybody last night? Did anybody call you?

14.When was the last time you went to an exhibition?

15.What did you read or watch yesterday?

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Do you think you will learn another language one day? What language do you think it will be?

Are you going to do anything interesting tonight? Is it going to be a typical evening for you?

Do you think it will rain tomorrow? What weather do you think it will be next week?

Are you going to see your friends any time soon? Where are you going to go?

Are you going to learn lots of words today? Do you think you’ll remember them all?

Is your friend going to learn English too? Are you going to talk English to your friends?

Do you think you’ll visit an exotic country one day? What country do you think it will be?

When are you going to plan your next trip?

Are you going to watch some TV tonight? What programme are you going to watch?

When are you going to have some rest? What are you going to do to relax?

Do you think your friends will call you after the lesson?

14.Where are you going to travel this year?

15.Who are you going to talk to tonight?

3.Do you think you will win this game?

4.Who do you think will win this game? Why do you think so?

When and where do you think you will speak English next time?

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