Hi guys,

Not much from me, just a little game where the students practice the sentences "We lost the soccer game.  Don’t be disappointed,you’ll win next time."

It's The clap game where the students just repeat the target language and on different levels substitute a word for an action or sound (originally a drinking game with numbers).

From the top of my head I have to do the two conversation points of 'expressing happiness' and 'encouraging'.
---scratch that my conversation points I have to teach are actually 'satisfaction/dissatisfaction' and 'consoling'
Cheers

Four types of friends 2. Lesson on page 13 of "Conversation Zone"

Pages 10-11.
It was my first class with the students so the ppt also includes an introduction.

This is for page 11

Intro and some examples of encouragement.

A speaking matching game of matching the problem with the correct encouragement.

I've played with the whole class, each person gets one strip and must find their match.

Or you can play in groups. One person reads a random problem. The others pick random encouragement slips and if one matches, the person with the match gets to keep the slips as a point.

Hi there,
This is an activity I made to go along with page 20. It uses the phrase, " When I was younger/ When I am 25 years old ..." etc. Its played the same as apples to apples. First divide the class into groups. Each player must take 4 verb cards. Then one person in the group starts by turning over a sentence card, (they become the judge). The other players must try to finish the sentence. For example: When I was younger I used to ... a) swim with sharks, b) catch butterflies, c) do yoga. The judge choses which sentence is the best or the funniest and gives that person 1 point (I usually let them keep the sentence card).  And so it goes with a new player being the judge each round.