ER Plurals crossword ‘Use this activity after Lesson 2.3 Ex. 8¢ on page 21. Procedure ‘Ss work in pairs. Give each pair a copy of the activity Ask Ss to look at sentence 1 across, Tell them that the letters in bold can be rearranged to make a word, What do they think this word is? (Give them a clue: itis a ‘member of the family). When they identify the word niece, ask them what they must do to the word to make it fit in the sentence (.e., they must make it plural = nieces) They write this word on the crossword grid. Working in pairs, Ss then try to complete the rest of the crossword, making words out of the jumbled letters, and then making these words plural. Answers Across: 1 nieces 6 diaries 8 dictionaries 12 women 33 men 4 sandwiches 15 dishes 17 parties 4B wives 19 holidays Down: 2 children 3 buses 4 pictures 5 cities 7 scarves 9 addresses 10 families 11 watches 36 hotels 37 peoplePlurals crossword ‘Avange the letters in bold and complete the crossword. Across > 1 Thi Claudia, scinee Olivia and 1s a picture of my two have one for work, and 6 These are my ‘one for social events. seiaird 8 Ihavetwo__ an English-French one, and a French-German one. altinoseider 2 This club is for only. nmeow 3 Imsorry, but are not welcome in here. enm 4 Heeats _for lunch. ehasdiewns I made dinner, so you can wash and dry Down + 2 mmarried to Henrietta, and we have two___, Tara and Michael. nrehtedi 3 Two____gofromhere to Oxford, the number 2 and the number 7. subse 4 My bedroom is very big, with lots of con the wall. elepurts 5 London and Birmingham are two big _ ~ in Britain tselie 7 Football supporters often wear with the colours oftheir favourite teams on. rasevse 9 Don't forget to write the names and on these envelopes before you send them. essarsded 10 Two_ live in the flat next to mine, the the __. ssidhe ‘Smiths and the Roberts. Hafesim This club has really good __every Ive got two + a cheap plastic one, and weekend, iseprta an expensive Rolex. setchaw 18 Do Harry and Gregory bring their tothe 36 The Hilton and the Sheraton are two good office party? evsw ______ in my town. stoeht 49 Every year, have two or three dyoliahs 17 Alotof. work in this office. epploe F F F F — J F fs Fe2 |Grammar 3 ‘noun plurals Guess the plurals Target language: noun plurals ‘Activity type: half a crossword When to use: Use this activity after Lesson 2.3, Time: 15 minutes Preparation: Photocopy and cut up one worksheet for each pair of students. Procedure Put students into pairs. Give half the pairs a Student A worksheet, and the other half a ‘Student B worksheet. Tell students to check with their partners that they understand and can explain all the words on their crosswords. When they are ready, rearrange the class so that a Student A works with a Student B, Tell students not to show their worksheets to each other. Preteach how to ask What's 4 across? or What's 1 down? Students now help each other to complete their crosswords by describing the words they have without saying the words. ‘Make sure students are clear that all the words are plural nouns. The winner is the first pair to finish the crossword,Student A fe € 5 s|al-|s zlolelele »le|-|-lz Student B2 |Grammar 2 ‘a/an, noun plurals What's inside? Target language: a/an, noun plurals ‘Activity type: information gap When to use: Use this activity after Lesson 2.2. Time taken: 15 minutes Preparation: Photocopy and cut up one worksheet for each pair of students in the class. Procedure Put students into pairs. Give a Student A worksheet to one student in each pair and a ‘Student B worksheet to the other. Tell students not to look at each other’s worksheets. Explain that they have to describe the contents of their bags to their partner, who must draw the contents inside the empty bag in the worksheet. Encourage them to ask the question, What's in your bag? and to answer using the appropriate article or plural form, a book, an apple, three business cards, etc. before they start. Students check the task by comparing their drawing to their partner’s drawing. To make it more challenging you could turn it in to amemorisation task. Student A has one minute to memorise what is in his/her bag before turning over his/her picture so he/she cannot see it. He/she describes it to Student B who draws it. Student B then has a minute to memorise his/her bag’s contents before describing them to Student A who draws them. Students then compare their drawings. ‘Answers ‘Student A: an apple; keys; a purse; a mobile phone; a brush; three pens; an umbrella; a book; a bus ticket; three business cards. ‘Student B: an orange; an iPod; two passports; two mobile phones; two theatre tickets; a laptop; a camera; two watches; two brushes; an umbrellaMYSTERY OBJECTS Materials: one copy of worksheet A and worksheet B per pair of students Distribute the worksheets. Put Ss into pairs AA and BB to complete their words with the correct vowels. Monitor and check. Then put Ss into AB pairs and tell them to ask and answer about the silhouettes using What's this? I's a ... and What are these? They're ... Ss first say the corresponding ette~ (A-F) or number (I-6) and then ask the correct question. Model an example with a student. Feed in How do you spell that? Check answers as a class.| Worksheet A ' Add the vowels to complete the objects. Then ask and answer about the other objects: What's this? It's a ... What are these? They're ... Worksheet B ‘Add the vowels to complete the objects. Then ask and answer about the other objects: } What's this? It's a ... What are these? They're ...