Sentence dominoes
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NOTE: This activity is not linked to the activity on
Worksheet Progress check
36-40a.
ACTIVITY
Groupwork: speaking
AIM
To play a game of dominoes matching halves of sentences.
GRAMMAR AND FUNC'I'IONS
Revision of Student's Book Lessons
36
to
40
Past continuous for interrupted actions with
while
and
when
Expressions of quantity:
too
+
adjective,
not
+
adjective
enough
But
for making comparisons
Conjunctions
VOCABULARY
Multi-part verbs
General
PREPARKI'ION
Make one copy of the worksheet for every two to four
students in the class and cut out the dominoes as indicated.
You may wish to photocopy the worksheet and stick it onto
card.
TIME
30
minutes
PROCEDURE
1
Write the first half of one of the sentences from the
worksheet on the board and elicit several different ways of
finishing the sentence.
For example:
I
was looking out of the window.
..
...
when
I
saw my friend.
...
became
I
was bored.
...
but
I
was still listening to the teacher.
2
Now explain to the students that they are going to play a
game of dominoes matching halves of sentences, and that
the object of the game is to get rid of all their dominoes.
3
Ask the students to work in groups of two or three and
give each group of students a set of dominoes. Ask them to
deal out three dominoes each and leave the rest in a pile,
face down.
4
Before they start playing, explain how to play.
5
When they've finished a game, they can shuffle and play
another round.
HOW
TO
PLAY
1
Player A puts down any one of their dominoes face up.
2
The player on their left must then put down one of their
dominoes, making sure that the half of their sentence
matches the sentence on either side of Player A's domino.
For example:
(domino A)
I
was looking out of the window,
(domino
B)
when
I
saw my friend.
The players take it
in
turns to add dominoes in this way.
3
If
a player cannot put down one of their dominoes, they
can take a domino from the top of the pile and put it down
if
they can.
4
If
a sentence is gramatically correct, but does not make
sense, the other players may challenge it.
If
a player can
explain the sentence to the other players' satisfaction, the
game can continue.
5
The first player to get rid of all of their dominoes is the
winner.
Reward Pre-Intermediate Resource Pack
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Macmillan Publishers Limited
1999.
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