Seasonal English A1 Englisch

Seasonal English A1

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Ideas for English for the 2010 FIFA World Cup ™: activities for A1 classes Teacher’s notes Aims – To ask and answer basic personal questions – To be able to say something about African countries with teams in the 2010 FIFA World Cup ™

Tasks – Asking questions to complete a form

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Preparation – Make a copy of the worksheet for each student. Cut out the cards at the bottom.

Timing – 30 mins

Procedure 1. Elicit from students the names of the African countries with teams in the World Cup (Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South Africa). Prompt by writing the German on the board if necessary. If level permits, ask students what they know about the countries, e.g. where exactly are they? 2. Divide the class into groups of six. Note: in smaller classes students should only talk to two others at stage five. 3. Give each student a copy of the top half of the worksheet and one of the cards cut away from the bottom. 4. Explain to the students that they now have a new identity and come from one of the African countries with a world cup team. They will need to talk to each other to fill in the table on the map. Elicit from the students the questions they will need to ask. These are: – What’s your name? How do you spell that? – Where are you from? How do you spell that? – How old are you? – What do you do / What’s your job? / What’s your occupation? – What do you do in your free time / What are your hobbies? 5. Students mingle within their group. Each student talks to three others, taking it in turns to ask and answer questions, filling in the three columns of the table. 6. The students sit back down. With the whole class, the teacher asks six people, one by one, to present one of the people they have spoken to. They should say, “This is Eric, from Yoko. That’s a town in Cameroon,” and so on. If the level permits, the other students could ask the person being presented some more basic questions.

Autor: Niamh Humphreys www.cornelsen.de / erwachsenenbildung

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Seasonal English A1

Englisch

Ideas for English for the 2010 FIFA World Cup ™: activities for A1 classes Talk to three people and fill in the table.

Person 1

Person 2

Person 3

Name:

Country and city:

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Age:

Occupation:

Hobbies:

A You are Linda, from Port Elizabeth, a city in South Africa. You are a thirty-year-old doctor. You play football in the women’s team at the big hospital where you work.

D You are Juliet, from Kani, a village in Ivory Coast. You are thirty-four years old, a farmer and a mother of five children. You like watching football sometimes. You don’t have time for more hobbies!

B You are Eric, from Yoko, a small town in Cameroon. You are an engineering student and twenty-one years old. You don’t have time for hobbies but sometimes you watch football on TV.

E You are Femi, a policeman from Lagos in Nigeria. You are twenty-two years old and you love sports! You play football and also go swimming and running.

C You are Abdul, a fifty-two-year-old man from Oran, a city in Algeria. You are a sports teacher and you love all sports! In your free time you play football and go jogging.

F You are Janet, a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl from Cape Coast in Ghana. You are football crazy! Your hobbies are playing football in your school team, going to football games in your town and watching football on TV.

Autor: Niamh Humphreys www.cornelsen.de / erwachsenenbildung

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