(speaking, vocabulary. Notes & Comments

Task 3

(speaking, vocabulary

■ Elicit a synonym of the expression ‘practical joke’ (‘trick’). Give one example of a practical joke, e. g. when you say to somebody that his/her shoelaces are undone.

■ Give your Ss a minute to think about a situation when they have played a practical joke on somebody. Divide your Ss into pairs. Make sure that in each pair there is at least one student who has played a practical joke.

■ Go quickly through the questions and answers in this task, solving any problems your Ss may have.

■ Ask them to describe the practical joke they have played. Explain that the questions on the worksheet are to help them, but they don’t have to answer all of them. They can add some extra information.

■ When your Ss are ready, ask a few of them to describe their practical jokes. Next time you meet, again choose a few students to talk about their tricks.

Key ! Key

[Students’ own answers]

Notes & Comments

■ [TASK ‚ ] You can discuss the use of tenses in this exercise. Most of the statements are written in the Present Simple tense (the so-called historic present). You can ask your Ss to re-write the statements in the Past Simple tense, and thus practise the Reported Speech.

o e. g. The Sun reported that British Police were fitting hawks with speed cameras…

■ [TASK ѓ] You can ask one student to describe his/her practical joke twice (during two lessons rather than on the same day). The performance of the student describing the trick for the second time will probably be much better.

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