Appropriateness Use of negative expressions
Pronunciation and intonation Schwa
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Linking sounds
Stress in positive and negative expressions
Function Describing appearance:
He’s kind of tall. She looks a bit odd. Describing personality:
They’re a funny bunch. She’s got a heart of gold. CLASSROOM EXTENSION IDEAS You can use some or all of these ideas to check and enhance
your students’ understanding as they work their way
through
Unit 2 of
Speaking A2 in class.
Using Getting started You can use the
Getting started questions to brainstorm the
students’ descriptive vocabulary.
1. Bring one portrait photograph, from magazines or books,
for each student, and attach them to a white sheet of
paper so that students can write something on them.
2. Ask the
Getting started questions about the man in the
photograph at the top of the unit. You can elicit simple
physical description but also encourage the students to
use their imagination (
middle-aged ,
older ,
getting on ,
grey-haired ,
clean-shaven ,
likes to wear a hat ,
maybe he’s going bald ,
likes strong coffee ,
addicted to the internet ,
lives in the country ).
3. Give students a photograph each and ask them to
quickly add a description to it. They can give the person
a name if they are stuck.
4. When they have fi nished they can pass it on to the next
student who must add another description and so on.
