Aims:
To practise simple personal questions: What's your name? How old are you? Are you married? How many brothers and sisters do you have? Where are you from? The activity also allows you to revise basic vocabulary and it gets students moving around the classroom and changing the dynamics away from a teacher-led activity.
Procedure:
Before beginning the activity make sure the students are familiar with the questions and are able to produce them without prompting.
Ask students to write down the following words on a scrap of paper, keeping what they write secret from those around them.
1. The name of a fruit.
2. The name of a vegetable.
3. A number between 1 and 100.
4. Ask them to write the answer to this question – Do you like football?
5. How many pencils and pens do you have?
6. Ask them to choose one letter from A,B,C,D,E?
Now tell them that these things are actually:
1. Their first name
2. Their family name
3. Their age
4. Are they married?
5. How many brothers and sisters they have
6. Their country A= Australia, B= Brazil, C= China, D= Denmark, E= England
Now they must get up and go around the class and ask the personal questions and share information about their new selves. Give out the worksheet and ask the students to collect and write down all the information about their classmates' new identities. You might want to set a time limit of about 10-15 minutes for this.
When the time is up, ask the students to return to their seats. Get students to tell you about some of the 'new identities' of their classmates.
Depending on the age and level of your class you could also use this activity for some intonation practice. Expressing surprise in English is often accompanied with a rising tone or a rise-fall. For example,
How old are you?
I'm ninety-nine years old.
Ninety-nine
(rise---fall)
A final follow-up activity might involve getting students to write a short passage about their new identity. This could be done as a parallelwriting activity whereby a model is given by the teacher and the students use this to construct their own texts.
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v.实践(行，施)；提倡 (初中英语单词)
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