A model text is a short text which not only shows the written form of the target structure, but also clarifies its meaning/use/function. Presentation of the text (not to be confused with presentation of a given target structure in a text) is the process of familiarising the students with the model text. This can be done in various ways. You can dictate the text or they can read it on OHPoron a handout. Often, however, presentation phases involve the students more actively in the construction of the model text, eg, you begin with a gapped version and elicit the missing. | 2. Check the task asking the students to explain the jokes if they can and explaining them yourself if they can t. A mat lies on the floor mike Is short for microphone if someone has been clawed they have been scratched to rob is to steal if someone has been shorn their hair has been cut short but note that the pronunciation of shorn and Sean is the same only in standard British English if someone is frank they are honest a paper bag rustles and things bob when they float on water. 3. Ask students to cover the questions and then working in pairs to try to reconstruct them from memory using the answers as clues. 4. Ask the students if they can invent some jokes of their own of the same type. To help here are some more names that have other meanings ie they are homographs or homophones Mark Pat Bill Will Jack Doug Pod Herb Earnest and Cail Carol Mona Eve Joy Shelley. USE 1. Write the following table on the board 1 have a friend brother sister etc who. whose. 1 know a person someone somebody 2. Demonstrate the task by constructing a true sentence based on the table. For example I have a friend who lives in a lighthouse. 3. Pause at this point and say nothing until a student volunteers a question. Note that you needn t ask for a question your silence will be sufficient. Answer the student s question and wait for more to emerge. 4. Ask the students to construct their own true sentences using the table and to write these down. Then ask for a volunteer to come and sit in a seat at the front of the class and to read their sentence aloud. They should then answer any questions that are directed at them or if they don t wish to answer a particular question should simply say No comment . When their topic has been exhausted ask for another student to come forward and so on. CHAPTER 4 Compîex sentences 259 LEVEL Intermediate TIME 50 minutes EXTRAS A cassette of soft meditative music Section B LEAD-IN ACTIVITIES A person I d like to get to know 1. Ask your students to write down
