Some students, however, may see the intermediate level as a 'plateau' and feel that they arE no longer making the progress they were before. Students at this level need fresh challenges to help them to realize how much they know and to make their passive knowledge active, together with a steady input of new language. | Questionnaire__ C A pairwork questionnaire SS revise comparatives and superlatives by completing a questionnaire with comparatives or superlatives and then asking and answering the questions. Copy one sheet per pair and cut into A and B. LANGUAGE Comparatives and superlatives Put SS into pairs and give out the questionnaires. Focus on the adjectives I adverbs and tell SS to complete each question with a comparative or superlative of the adjective adverb. A Tell SS that there may be two comparatives or two superlatives - it is not always one of each. Check answers. You could copy the key onto the board so that SS don t actually hear each other s questions yet. A more active the most unhealthy more often the furthest the most useful easier the most relaxing the best more safely the most talkative B harder more healthily more enjoyable the worst the most difficult higher the most often the best closer the laziest Now focus on b. Get SS sitting face to face if possible to ask and answer the questions. They can either ask alternate questions or A can interview B and they then swap roles. If there s time they could also return the questions asking What about you Are they true __ i- A pairwork speaking activity SS read about laws and customs from around the world. Together they have to discuss and then decide whether they are true or not. Copy one sheet per pair. LANGUAGE You have to. You don t have to. You should. You shouldn t. You must. You mustn t. Put SS into pairs and give out the sheets. Focus on a. Highlight that four of the laws and customs are false. Give SS a few minutes to read all the laws and customs. Then set a time limit . ten minutes for pairs to discuss each law and custom one by one and to decide if it is true or false. Check answers and see if any pair correctly identified the four false laws. The false ones are 3 5 16 and 19. The othes are all true as far as we know Focus on b. Tell SS
