Oxford Picture Dictionary • Unit 5 • Describing Clothes
BACK AND FORTH Teaching Notes
Grammar Point: COMPARATIVES: ADVERBS OF DEGREE; TOO
Levels: Low Beginning to High Beginning
For: Pairs or Triads Preparation: 10 minutes Activity: 15 minutes Duplicate: 1 worksheet for each student
Objective and practice the conversation. Encourage
Students will be able to use the target students to substitute their own information grammar structure and vocabulary to role- and/or use their imaginations to change the play a conversation. location or situation. 4. Invite groups to role-play their Preparation conversations for the class. Give the class Preview the conversation from the selected specific information to listen for (e.g., How Back and Forth activity or use the do they feel? Who do they meet?). vocabulary from the Describing Clothes pages of your dictionary to write a For Multilevel Classes conversation that practices the target After you have presented the target grammar structure. grammar structure and the conversation, have lower-level students work in groups of Review the Vocabulary two or three to practice the conversations. Have students open their dictionaries to With higher-level students, brainstorm Describing Clothes and cover the word list. situations in which people would use the Have students work in groups of two or target sentences. Then observe the lower- three and take turns asking each other to level groups role-playing their conversations name items on the page. while the higher-level students write their own conversations. Finally, have the higher- level students role-play their conversations Teach the Grammar Point: for the class. Comparative: Adverbs of Degree; Too Present the sentences from the conversation that best illustrate the target grammar structure. Ask True/False questions about the meanings of the sentences to verify understanding of the form and meaning of the structure.
Introduce the Activity
Explain the goal: to practice a conversation and then create a new one.