2. Put students in pairs and give one picture to either
student.
3. Allow students to think of three
Getting started -type
questions for each of the pictures. (e.g.
What are the women in the photo doing? Where are the couple? etc.)
4. Students can then exchange their photographs and ask
their partner the questions.
5. Feed back with the whole class.
Using Conversations 1. After
Exercise 1 in
Conversations you can ask students
which photograph from
Getting started (including the
extra photos from the
Getting started photographs sheet)
matched each conversation. (Answers: a – the main unit
photo; b – the women looking at a dress; c – the couple
with tickets, globe and computer).
2. The variety of short scripted conversations in these units
gives students ample opportunity for tightly controlled
practice. After completing the
Conversations section
always ask the students to rehearse and perform one of
the dialogues for the class. It is a good idea to get them
to come to the front to perform rather than letting them
talk from their chairs. There are six roles across the three
conversations here; you can repeat one scene more than
once if you have more students, but there are plenty of
other opportunities in other units.
Using the second Language note If you want to remind students about countable and
uncountable nouns there are a variety of speaking activities
that will allow you to revise this topic. Try this spot-the-
difference activity with foodstuffs.
1. Find two similar pictures of food and drink. You can fi nd
one picture which you can photocopy and then alter
with correction fl uid, or two pictures with a similar array
of foods. Make fi ve or six differences.
