There's a bunch of stuff from the old book for this lesson.

Here is a simple ppt I will use on opinions.
I will do 2 rounds of running dictations as the activity. Happy Teaching!

Thank you to behrensk for the practice PPT - I think I'm going to use that, with a little tweaking. I especially like the adjectives bit, since I try to use a bit more of the technical things (adjective, noun, verb) in my classes so that students can learn >what kind< of word they need in a certain blank in their key expressions. I remember learning the majority of my grammar from Spanish class, and I do believe that it has helped me.

I am, however, going to try a different activity. Not sure how it will go, but I'll post an update later, maybe. I changed an Adjective Apples to Apples PPT that I found elsewhere on this site (basically, I took the idea and five or so of the pictures, to be honest). Attached you'll find the instructional PPT, adjective cards (each student gets a card with a list of adjectives, that they get to keep), and noun cards (1 set for each group).

Basically, students play this game by trying to guess the judge's opinion (which they sort of do in real Apples to Apples as well, in a roundabout way). I hope I've included enough adjectives that it's not just a dead giveaway every time - that's my main concern.

I'm teaching this next week - we'll see how it goes.

Here's my PPT for the second half of the chapter - this time around I reviewed opinions, then introduced the key expressions for agreeing and disagreeing with one or two of my own.

For my game, each team must guess which answer was the most popular choice when people were asked an opinion question (rankings and voting numbers taken from Ranker.com - I know it's not the most reputable source, but people do apparently vote on it, so it works for my purposes). For example: "Which animal is the scariest?" One team will start and say their opinion, then the next team will either agree or disagree using the key expressions, and so on, until all teams have said their answer. Then I will reveal how the four choices were rated on the website and give points according to that (you could easily change this into a "Four Corners" game, and that was in fact how I had originally conceived of it).

If you know of any better sources of opinion polls NOT about politics, feel free to post about them. I could probably use them for future lessons.

There's a bunch of stuff from the old book for this lesson.

Here is a simple ppt I will use on opinions.
I will do 2 rounds of running dictations as the activity. Happy Teaching!

There is a problem here.
You don't have any guiding rules on how to play this game.

Hey guys,

I've taken another contributor's lesson and made a few small changes (pictures and the like) for my all-boy classes - they don't have the best attention spans.

Thanks to the original contributor!

Hello,

References: Opinions, I think, I agree, I disagree

I have made a quiz trying to illustrate the difference between I think and I know. The powerpoint is pretty self explanatory. If they say I think they get the points displayed for the answer. If they say they know and they pick the top answer, they double the points. The wrong answer and the lose everything. I cant seem to find the handout for the answers I used so you will have to make your own. I just made them write 'I think' or 'I know' for each question and had a points total.

I also made a powerpoint from a suggestion from another thread I saw somewhere about using virtual animal face offs by animal planet and getting the students to pick who they think the winner will be. They can be found here http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/animal-planet-presents/videos/animal-face-off-top-10.htm . With some different powerpoints my presentation suffers so it is essential you run through it on whichever computer you intend to use. This goes with a fair few of my presentations to be honest. Still with a little tidying up itll save you a lot of time and they will enjoy it. It is a good idea to work out what you will show and what you wont from the clips. Forward to the wrong bit and you risk giving away who wins at an undesired time.

Regards,

Ian

I used the key phrases from Chapter 5. In groups of 4 students had to make a voice-over/voice-dubbing lesson. I took this idea from another contributor so thanks. The video is from the movie White Chicks.

Here is my lesson for speaking part 2.

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