Unit 2: Sentence cards

Teacher’s notes
Aim
To practice talking and asking about personal information.

Language focus
Present tense of be, personal pronouns, vocabulary for personal information.

Materials and preparation

Each pair or group of up to four students will need one copy of the page. Cut along the
dotted lines to make cards.

Student organization
Pairs or groups of up to four students.

Suggested time
15-20 minutes.

Procedures
• Put students in pairs or groups, and give each pair or group a set of shuffled cards. Ask
students to keep the cards face-down and in a pile.
• Explain to students that they should take turns drawing a card from the pile. The student
who draws a card says a sentence using the word or expression on the card and keeps that
card. The other student(s) say if the sentence is correct or not. If they are not sure about
this, they should ask you for help.
• Affirmative sentences are worth 1 point, negative sentences are worth 2 points, questions
are worth 3 points. Write this on the board and ask students to keep score. When all of the
cards have been used, the student in each pair or group with the most points is the winner.

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 Classroom communication activities
Unit 2: Sentence cards

telephone name from

number + - ? + - ?
+ - ?

+ - ?
number + - ? + - ?
telephone name from

address she they

+ - ? + - ? + - ?

+ - ? + - ? + - ?
address she they

student this brazil

+ - ? + - ? + - ?

+ - ? + - ? + - ?
student this brazil

spell japanese are

+ - ? + - ? + - ?

+ - ? + - ? + - ?
spell japanese are

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