9.2 Teaching notes

Unit 9 Language focus 2: Question tags

Type of Activity: Pairwork: speaking

Aims: To practise the use of question tags.

Task: To complete phrases using the correctquestion tags in order win a grid game(Blockbusters).

Preparation: Make one copy of the worksheetfor each team of students (a team will ideallyconsist of two or three people). Also make onecopy of the answers for each judge, if required.

Classroom Time: 20–30 minutes

Procedure

1 In a class with few students this game wouldideally be played with two teams and theteacher acting as a judge. With larger classes,the students can be divided into groups of five,with two teams made up of two students andone student acting as a judge.

2 Give out a copy of the grid and a set of rulesto each team. Give the answers to the judge ifnecessary.

3 Students play the game according to therules. Go through the rules with the studentsand show them on the board how the gameworks. Encourage students to speak English asmuch as possible when discussing which cellto select.

4 When a team selects a number, read out thecorresponding phrase from the list in theanswer key. The team then has to supply thecorrect question tag. The winner is the team tomake a continuous line from one side of thegrid to the other.

Follow-up

Give students the question tags on the answersheet and ask them to write the first part of thephrase without referring to the grid. For furtherpractice, students could be asked to create aconverstation incorporating some of thephrases and question tags used from the game.

Answers

1 He won’t have finished yet, will he?

2 Let’s go out tonight, shall we?

3 She’s seen the film already, hasn’t she?

4 Open the door, will/would you?

5 The news was depressing, wasn’t it?

6 John’s got a car, hasn’t he?

7 She’s about fifty, isn’t she?

8 Don’t close the window, will you?

9 I’m late, aren’t I?

10 You’d better smoke less, hadn’t you?

11 The police aren’t coming, are they?

12 You’d met him before, hadn’t you?

13 Spain won the final, didn’t they?

14 You’d prefer to stay in, wouldn’t you?

15 Listen, will you?

16 Mice like cheese, don’t they?

17 He’d never been there before, had he?

18 I shouldn’t have lost my temper, should I?

19 There’s some milk in the fridge, isn’t there?

20 You can hardly speak English, can you?

21 Someone telephoned, didn’t they?

22 He had to sell his house, didn’t he?

23 She isn’t listening to me, is she?

24 You can’t stand heavy metal, can you?

25 You used to live here, didn’t you?

Unit 9 Language focus 2: Question tags

How to play the game

1 The object of the game is to join two sides of the grid together by winning a line of cells:

Team A have to join the top of the grid to the bottom with a continuous line of cells. Team B have to join one side of the grid to the other.

2 Toss a coin to see which team goes first. The first team to play select any one of the numbered hexagons. Your teacher will read out a phrase, and your team must complete the phrase with a question tag.

3 Each time you correctly complete a phrase with a question tag, that cell can be marked with your team’s colour.

4 If a team answers incorrectly the cell they have chosen is not coloured. It is then the turn of the other team, who can choose any of the free cells.

5 The winner is the first team to connect two sides of the grid successfully.

9.2 Ready for First Certificate Worksheet

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