Lesson 7

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. Warning! This is a loud game because people tend to get excited and yell!

The suggested phrases for the groups are:

• Collecting stamps

• Collecting coins

• Making crafts

• Playing sports

II. Main part

After all the phrases are guessed, the teacher asks the students what it is that unites all those activities eliciting the word "hobby”.

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.

You are participating in a language course. In a group, you are talking about your childhood hobbies. Tell about what your hobby was and when you did it and then tell about what your hobby is now.

Suggested grammar tense(s): PAST / PRESENT

What are you going to talk about?

I am going to tell you about my childhood hobby.

Past tense

What was your childhood hobby?

How did you do this hobby?

Why did you like this hobby?,

When did you do these hobbies?

Where did you do these hobbies?

Present tense

What is your new hobby?

Why do you like this new hobby?

How do you do this new hobby?

Where do you do this new hobby?

When do you do this new hobby?

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.

1)      What are you going to talk about?

2)      What was your childhood hobby?

3)      How did you do this hobby?

4)      Why did you like this hobby?

5)      When did you do these hobbies?

6)      Where did you do these hobbies?

7)      What is your new hobby?

8)      Why do you like this new hobby?

9)      How do you do this new hobby?

10)  Where do you do this new hobby?

11)  When do you do this new hobby?

III. Summary

IV. Homework

Students write a story describing two unusual hobbies they pretend to have had in the childhood and to have now using linking words and phrases and the essential vocabulary of the previous lessons.

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