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Description
This activity gives students practice in understanding and following instructions and in using appropriate
language to ask for repetition.
Time
required:
1015 minutes.
Materials
required:
scissors
Aims:
to introduce students to Part 2 of the Starters Speaking paper and to the task type
to give students practice in using language asking for repetition and clarification.
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Useful language
Ask students what they would say if they dont understand
something.
I dont understand.
Ask students what they would say if they cant hear what the teacher says.
Can you repeat that, please?
Again, please.
Sorry?
Write this useful language on the board so that students have a reminder to help them during the
activity. Also, ask them to copy it into their notebooks.
You could also write each phrase on a piece of paper for display on the walls. This serves as a
useful reminder for students.
If students need more practice using this useful language, spend a few minutes giving them
instructions/asking them questions very quickly or quietly (e.g. Point to the door, How old are
you?) and elicit the useful language from the board asking for repetition.
2. Activity
Select a student. Read out one set of instructions, which you prepared before the lesson, to
him/her in stages, allowing the student to complete one part before moving onto the next.
For example:
Pick up a red pencil.
Stand up.
Go and put the red pencil on the table next to the door.
If the student doesnt understand, elicit/give/remind them of the useful language on the board
from Step 2.
Repeat the above procedure with different students and using different instructions,
reminding them to use appropriate classroom language to ask for repetition if they need it.
3. Sample Task
Hand out Sample Task 2 to the students. Ask them to cut out the cards using scissors .
Now, hand out Sample Task 1.
If you have done the classroom activity for Part 1 of the YLE Starters Speaking test, tell
students that this is the same picture and that, in the test, the same picture is used in Parts 1,
2 and 3 of the test.
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Give instructions for students to place the object cards on different parts of the picture,
For example:
Put the shell under the tree.
Put the hat in the water.
Students follow your instructions. They dont speak.
Check with the students where they have put the objects to make sure they are all in the
right places.
A good way of reviewing prepositions is to ask the students for the answers, e.g. Wheres
the shell? (under the tree)
4. Important things to remember
At the end of the activity, ask the students the following questions, in the students first
language if necessary:
What should you say to the examiner at the start of the test? (Hello)
Where do you put the small picture cards? (on the big picture)
What should you say if you dont understand? (e.g. I dont understand / Can you
repeat that, please? / Sorry?)
You may also want to tell the students that there will be one examiner and one child in the
test, i.e. they will not do the test with a partner.
Tell the students that sometimes they have to put the objects in strange places, e.g. Put the
cake in the boat!
UCLES 2014. This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom
use provided no charge is made. For further information see our Terms and Conditions
UCLES 2014. This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom
use provided no charge is made. For further information see our Terms and Conditions
UCLES 2014. This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom
use provided no charge is made. For further information see our Terms and Conditions
UCLES 2014. This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom
use provided no charge is made. For further information see our Terms and Conditions