Ranking

Rank and write.

Students are given a list of qualities, which they rank in the order of importance for their future job. Then students are to write a letter of application.

e.g.

Nice appearance, long legs, intelligence, sense of humour, responsibility, politeness, industry, patience, good mixability, etc.

Rating

Per cent.

Students are to look through a list of notions (e.g. a list of stressful jobs). Working in pair they are to mark the degree of stressfulness of every profession on the given scale.

e.g.

Profession	The degree of stressfulness
Driver	0%------------------100%
Pilot	0%------------------100%
Butcher	0%------------------100%
President	0%------------------100%
Teacher	0%------------------100%

Categorising

Filling in categories.

Variation 1.

Students write the words in the appropriate column.

e.g.

best friend cousin classmate stranger acquaintance colleague

ex-boyfriend flatmate head-teacher niece mother-in-law parent

partner neighbour relative step-mother

family	friends	work	school	other

Finding Differences / Similarities

Comparing phenomena.

Before listening students list the differences and similarities between two phenomena (e.g. private and public schools) as they see them. After that they listen to the text and note down the facts they haven’t mentioned.

Matching

Split pictures.

Students guess how the people travel around the town and match the pictures.

e.g.

Key: a – 4, b – 3, c – 1, d - 2

Matching words with transcriptions.

Students match the words with their transcriptions.

e.g.	lecture	['moist∫ə]
	moisture	['listiη]
	listen	[lisn]
	listing	['leʒə]
	moustache	['lekʧə]
	leisure	[mə'sta:∫]

Paraphrasing

Synonyms.

Students are asked to find synonyms to the given words.

e.g.

meal – snack, nourishment;

insane – mad, crazy, loony, mentally unstable, wrong in the upper storey.

English or American?

Students are to give American variants of the given words in British English or vice versa.

e.g.

British	American		American	British
timetable	schedule		candies	sweets
film	movie		autumn	fall
queue	line		gas	petrol
flat			vacation
lift			pants