A day in the life of Michelle and Alexa

After-school activities
PRE-LISTENING
Activity 1
Name some after-school activities. Use the spider-gram below to help you.
Activity 2
Look at the pictures and identify the after-school activities you see.



Activity 3
You are going to watch a video with the sound turned off. Watch carefully and be prepared
to answer the following questions
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a. What do you see"
b. Where are the girls"
c. Which of the above activities are the girls doing"
WHILE-LISTENING
Activity 4
Now watch the video with the sound turned-on# and while the teacher is pausing the video
where necessary# fill in the grid with the activities each girl is doing. $hoose from the list.
surf the net, do homework, dance, eat a healthy dinner, eat unhealthy snacks, learn a
foreign language, read a book, sleep, stay up late, chat on the smart-phone, do experiments
in the bathroom
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a. a.
b. b.
c. c.
d. d.
e. e.
f. f.
g. g.
Activity 5- Speak (pair work activity)
Look at the notes you have made and compare and contrast orally what the girls are doing.
Use the +resent $ontinuous tense and the time e,pressions now# at the moment.
%ichelle is -verb . ing/ while )le,a is -verb . ing/
Activity - !rite ("ro#p work activity)
$hoose a girl and write a small paragraph with the things she does after school. Use the
0imple +resent tense and the adverbs of frequency -always# often# usually# sometimes#
never/.
POST-LISTENING
Activity $ - %ole-&lay
Which of the above activities do you usually do after school" %ake a video with a friend or
a relative and describe the after school activities you usually do. )nother friend or relative
can record you with a camera or a smart phone. +resent your video to the class.
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