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Description
This activity gives students practice in matching questions to appropriate responses.
Time
required:
25 minutes.
Materials
required:
two-line dialogues written on slips of paper (see Before the class for
details)
Aims:
to introduce students to Part 3 of the Movers Reading & Writing paper and
to the task type
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Procedure
1. Activity
Give each student one half of a dialogue youve prepared.
If you have an odd number of students, give one slip to two children to work together.
Tell the students they must find the other half of their dialogue, and must help each other as
well.
Allow 3 or 4 minutes for this.
Ask each pair of students to read their dialogue out loud.
Point out that we answer in different ways depending on the question. Tell them that the next
activity will give them some practice with this.
2. Students Worksheet
Hand out the Students Worksheet to each student in the class.
Tell them to read question 1 and elicit the answer from the class (a).
Ask the students where they might use/hear question 1 and its response (e.g. at the doctors).
Ask the students to try and think of questions for the other two responses for question 1.
For example:
Whats your brothers name?
What day is it tomorrow?
Tell students to choose the best answer for the other seven questions.
They first do this individually and then they compare their answers in pairs.
When checking answers with the class, ask them where each question and response might be
used. (See the Answer Key on page 4 for possible answers.)
3. Extension activity
Look at question 2 and the two wrong responses.
Ask the students to think of some possible questions for responses a) and b).
For example:
a) Shall we have some cake?
b) Can you ride a horse?
Put students into pairs. Name the pairs, e.g. lions, tigers and sharks (or similar).
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Lion pairs write questions for the wrong answers in questions 3 and 4.
Tiger pairs write questions for the wrong answers in questions 5 and 6.
Shark pairs write questions for the wrong answers in questions 7 and 8.
Go around the class and give help where it is needed.
There will be more than one possible answer for each one.
Put students into groups made up of one lion, one tiger and one shark. They take turns to
read their questions and responses to the other students in their group, who decide if they are
appropriate or not.
4. Sample Task
Hand out the Sample Task to each student.
Give them time to look at the picture, which will give them the context, and to silently read the
instructions.
Tell students that in the exam, the questions and responses are part of one long dialogue.
Note that the prompt may be a question, as in this task, or a statement.
Give them a maximum of 8 minutes to do the task.
For the Reading & Writing test, its important to train students to get used to a limited
amount of time for each part, as in the test they need to manage the time themselves.
Check answers with the class.
Focus on important words which helped them to decide on the correct answer. (See the
Answer Key on page 5 for possible answers.) Remind them never to leave an answer blank.
At the end of the test, if they still dont know the answer they should guess.
5.
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2.
3. b
4. b
5. c
6.
7. c
8. a
2.
3. C
4.
5.
6. C
Step 4
1. headache / toothache; have you got / no, Ive got..
2. Would you like (request) / no, thanks ,
3. have you got / no, I havent
4. Do you want (offer) / yes, please
5. Shall I...? (offer); thanks (acceptance)
6. mum / dad
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c) On Saturday.
b) Yes, I can.
c) Yes please.
b) Yes, I did.
c) Yes, I could.
b) Because Im cold.
c) Its green.
b) No, I wasnt.
c) It was cloudy.
c) Im tired.
b) No, I cant.
c) No, I dont.
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Original can be found in the Cambridge English: Movers Reading & Writing Sample Paper, which can
be downloaded from the Cambridge English website.
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Cambridge English
Movers
Cambridge Young Learners English Tests (YLE) Movers
Jane:
Peter:
c
3
Have
Peter:
Yes, it does.
OK , he's here.
No, I haven't.
Jane:
Peter:
Yes, please.
Yes, it is.
Yes, 1 had.
Jane:
Peter:
c
6
Jane:
Jan e:
Peter:
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