The clock game

Lesson 2

Intermediate

Checking the home task and discussing the vocabulary

Vocabulary game:

1. All the verbs: abandon, assimilate, pursue, navigate, embody, encourage, charge

2. All the nouns: framework, intention, repository, competitor, milestone, fortune, immersion, desperation, hierarchy, honor, recession, popsicle, complacency

3. All the adjectives: murky, congruent, incremental, frustrating, selfish

4. All the states, feelings and emotions: desperation, honor, complacency, frustrating, selfish, immersion

5. All the animate nouns: competitor

Revising the previous grammar

Ex. Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space.

2 C 4 B 3 A 5 D 6 A 7 B 8 C 9 C

Present perfect board game

http://www.eslbase.com/downloads/pdf/present-perfect-board-game.pdf

Phrasal verbs

Acting out phrasal verbs

2.1 http://www.teach-this.com/images/resources/acting-out.pdf

2.2http://www.english-grammar.at/worksheets/phrasal_verbs/ph004-phrasal-verbs-and-definitions.pdf

The clock game

Topics:

ü What things make you feel frustrated?

ü List 5 things.

ü Describe your favourite pastime/hobby.

ü Why is it so enjoyable? When did you take it up? How often do you do it? etc...

ü What are the 5 most important decisions in a person's life?

ü After making suggestions, the group decides on the order of importance.

ü Who is the person you look up to?

ü Who is/was the greatest leader/athlete/inventor/etc. in the world?

ü Are people becoming telephone addicts?

ü Can you give up using a telephone?

ü Why are social networks so popular nowadays?

ü What are the positive/negative effects?

ü Do you think actors, singers, sportsmen, etc. make too much fortune? Why/why not?

ü Under what circumstances would you:

ü break into somebody’s house?

ü set off a journey?

ü look up information in the book?

ü put forward a new idea?

ü lag behind the group?

ü If you won a lot of money, what would you do? Would you:

ü keep it a secret?

ü stop working?

ü go shopping?

ü buy a new house?

ü travel around the world?

ü give money to your family/friends?

ü What is a good job?

ü an interesting job?

ü a well-paid job?

ü a secure job?

ü good working conditions?

ü If you had to move to another country because of your job (or your partner's job),

ü what country would you prefer if you had a choice?

ü what would you miss most?

ü what would be the most important for you?

ü What have been the most important new stories in the last year?

ü Are certain events given too much/too little coverage?

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