Each of these two sections is self-standing: if your students are already familiar with a particular item, you can go straight to the Creative Grammar Practice stage. If, on the other hand, you want to provide them with just the first contact with a new area of grammar, without an elaborate creative stage, the relevant Language Awareness Activity can be done as a self-contained lesson. | LEVEL Elementary TIME 50 minutes Section B PREPARATION For Step 2 of the variation on p. 30 make strips of paper with words word groups on them. EXTRAS Optional class set of handouts of worksheets A and B ten paper strips 40 x 1 5 cm each Blu-Tack LEAD-IN ACTIVITIES Make your choice 1. Hand out photocopies of worksheet A below. If photocopying is not possible write the texts and the missing words on the board or on an OHP. 2. Tell the students to fill in the blanks with words from the box to create two meaningful texts. Make sure everyone understands the last two lines of each text. WORKSHEET A There are_ there are_ there are_ there are_ and_ when I take a long look into your eyes. There are _ there are _ there are _ there are _ and _ when I look out of my little tent in the dunes. kites of every colour - high mountains - flowers - tigers - white clouds -fireworks over dark lakes - tall trees - high waves - seagulls crying -surfboards jumping 3. Get several students to read out their texts. 4. Ask your students which of the class s texts they like best. 5. Then read out the texts below. WORKSHEET A KEY There are flowers there are tigers there are tall trees there are high mountains and fireworks over dark lakes when I take a long look into your eyes. There are white clouds there are seagulls crying there are high waves there are surfboards jumping and kites in all colours when I look out of my little tent In the dunes. TEXT CREATION The students write their own texts using the gapped texts in worksheet A as models. They read out their texts or display them. 28 CHAPTER Variations a. You may choose to offer only the following prompts There are there are __ there are __ there are and
