Lesson 18

Exam practice

Aims and objectives:

• revising the vocabulary

• practicing the structure of the exam talk

• practicing writing and speaking skills

Equipment: writing paper, speech patterns, handouts

Sequence

I. Warming-up

Hot Seat

In this game, the class is split up into teams. One member from each team sits facing the group. The teacher holds up a word (or writes it on the board if you are in a classroom) for all of the team members to see except for the players in the hot seats. The teams must try to get the person in the hot seat to guess the word or phrase (no direct prompts are allowed — only describing or miming). The first person to guess correctly gets to stand up and a new member from the team takes the hot seat. The person on the other team has to remain in the hot seat until she gets an answer first. You can keep score or just play for fun.

The suggested phrases for the groups are:

• Bad habits

• Bad eating habits

II. Main part

After all the phrases are guessed, the teacher asks the students what it is that unites all those activities eliciting the phrase "healthy lifestyle” or something like that.

As long as the word is said, the teacher draws the students’ attention to one of the examination topics and offers the set of speech patterns, which may help talk about it.

Talk about a meeting for a healthy lifestyles seminar to be held in your town.

Suggested grammar tense(s): PRESENT / FUTURE

What is the name of the seminar?

The name of the seminar is...

Who is organizing the seminar?

Who is this seminar for?

What will the seminar address / be about?

When will the seminar take place?

Where will the seminar take place?

Why is... organizing this seminar?

The students work with the patterns individually or in pairs asking and answering questions. It is not a bad idea to have students note down their answers to make a complete story frame using linking words and phrases.

Then the teacher asks students to hide their stories and suggests retelling them using the set of questions as a plan.

What is the name of the seminar?

Who is organizing the seminar?

Who is this seminar for?

What will the seminar address / be about?

When will the seminar take place?

Where will the seminar take place?

Why is... organizing this seminar?

III. Summary

IV. Homework

Students write a story describing an imaginary seminar they pretend to have attended using linking words and phrases and the essential vocabulary of the previous lessons.

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