Pop Quiz (Who? Whose? What? When? Where? Why? How much? / How many? / How old?)

You are going to

• do a quiz on pop music
• revise and practise these words for making questions - Who, Whose, What, When, Where, Why,  How...

Note - This activity is designed to be done as an interactive class quiz with students (individual or in pairs) having access to smartphones or tablets, laptops etc (however there is a downloadable printable worksheet for those who still like paper).



Discuss

• Do you like pop, rock, rap?
• Do you know any of the people below?
• How many do you like? 
• Who is your favourite singer / group?
• How much do you know about music?
• Do the quiz below and find out how much you know.

Do the quiz
A) First, make the questions by putting these words into the correct spaces;

Who, Whose, What, When, Where, Why,  How, How much, How many, How long

Do not answer the questions yet. You can do that in the next activity

 B) Now choose the correct answer for each question

Printable worksheet available here



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Jump and Slide 3 (Quiz Game - Pre-Int)

An pre-intermediate level quiz game to practise making questions in the past, present and future.

Individuals or teams see an answer and must ask the correct question.
A version for beginners is here Jump and Slide (Quiz Game - Beginners / Elem)
An elementary version is here Jump and Slide 2 (Quiz Game - Elementary)

Students should see the questions / answers "board" projected on an interactive whiteboard (if so they can come out and "touch" the numbers to play) or on a screen.
Students could also play it on tablets if available.


Note
1) You can download the "board" below and print it as A3. Teams throw a dice, land on a square and answer the corresponding question. If correct, they move a piece (as in a traditional snakes and ladders style game) until they arrive at the "end".

2) Or you can do it as revision quiz without the board
It can be downloaded as a ppt file below and adapted.

See below for game instructions



Board
This image can be downloaded below for printing.

Play

1. Click anywhere to start
2. Throw a dice. 
3. Move your piece. 
4. When you land on a square (on your printed sheet), click on the number in the game below and ask the right question. 
5. Click again anywhere on the screen to see if your answer is correct.
6. Click the blue triangle (bottom right) to go back to the home "game" page.
7. Continue until you reach the end.

Downloads
Game sheet is jpg here (right click and "save as") or word doc here
A version of the game as a ppt file is here

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments section below




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Jump and Slide 2 (Quiz Game - Elementary)

An elementary level quiz game to practise making questions

Individuals or teams see an answer and must ask the correct question.
A version for beginners is here Jump and Slide (Quiz Game - Beginners / Elem)
A pre-intermediate version is here Jump and Slide 3 (Quiz Game - Pre-Int) 

Students should see the questions / answers "board" projected on an interactive whiteboard (if so they can come out and "touch" the numbers to play) or on a screen.
Students could also play it on tablets if available.


Note
1) You can download the "board" below and print it as A3. Teams throw a dice, land on a square and answer the corresponding question. If correct, they move a piece (as in a traditional snakes and ladders style game) until they arrive at the "end".

2) Or you can do it as revision quiz without the board
It can be downloaded as a ppt file below and adapted.

See below for game instructions



Board
This image can be downloaded below for printing.

Play

1. Click anywhere to start
2. Throw a dice. 
3. Move your piece. 
4. When you land on a square (on your printed sheet), click on the number in the game below and ask the right question. 
5. Click again anywhere on the screen to see if your answer is correct.
6. Click the blue triangle (bottom right) to go back to the home "game" page.
7. Continue until you reach the end.

Downloads
Game sheet is jpg here (right click and "save as") or word doc here
A version of the game as a ppt file is here

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments section below




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Shaun of the Dead - Passive for News

You are going to

• watch a clip of the film "Shaun of the Dead"
• listen to the passive used in a news broadcast
• do some comprehension activities

Shaun of the Dead (2004) directed and co-written by Edgar Wright, co-written and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_of_the_Dead
The DVD is available on amazon here

1) Discuss

Do you like comedy films?
Do you like horror films?

Watch the Trailer. What kind of film is Shaun of the Dead?

2) Introduction

Shaun of the Dead
Shaun is a salesman whose life has no direction. He has a Mum, a stepfather (Phillip), and he shares his house with a housemate, Pete. Ed, Shaun's best friend, lives on their sofa. Shaun's girlfriend, Liz, has broken up with him so Shaun goes for a drink with Ed at the Winchester pub...







3) Before you watch
Vocabulary - Check you know the meanings of these words and expressions

• to confront
• to be mugged
• crackheads
• sketchy
• to flee
• standstill
• assailants
• be "a bit under the weather"
• to grab
• wait for something to "blow over"

4) Watch the film

The film cannot be embedded here from YouTube

• so click here to watch it on YouTube. Watch 00:21.00 - 00:37.40
• or watch this clip here for exercises A,B and C
• Ex D can be seen here

If you have the DVD watch from 00:21.00 - 00:37.40
Then do exercises A, B, C and D



A) True or False? 
Watch 00:20:55 - 00:26:45 and do the true of false exercise below

B) The News.
Look at the exercise and watch 00:26:45 - 00: 34:35 and fill in the gaps with the correct passive

 

C) Mum's phone call
Watch 00: 34:35 - 00:35:27 and listen to the phone call. Match Shaun's questions with his mum's answers

D) The Plan
What's the final plan?
Watch 00:35:27 - 00:37:13 and fill in the space with a verb

Printable worksheet here

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Shaun of the Dead fan site http://www.shaunofthedead.com/

Passives
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-28628.php

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Questions Questions Questions

You are going to

• watch a video about questions people put into internet search engines
• revise and practise making questions

1) Discuss
In September 2010 www.ask.com published a list of its all-time top 10 'unanswerable' search questions.

• What does "unanswerable" mean?
• What do you think the questions were? Can you guess?
• Try and think of some questions you would put into a search on the internet.

2) Watch
Here are the results. How many did you guess?

Answers - Highlight below to see

How long will I live?

Did Tony Sporano die?

What is the secret to happiness?

What is love?

Who is the most famous person in the world?

Is there anybody out there?

What is the best diet?

Do blondes have more fun?

Is there a God?

What is the meaning of life?

3 Discuss

Do you know any of the answers?
Discuss in pairs






4) Grammar
What words do we use to make questions?
Answer = What, Who, Which, Where, How, Why, do, does, did...
How do we make questions in English...

• with to be?
• with to have?
• with can and other modal verbs
  
• in the present simple?
• in the future?
• in the past?

Highlight here for answer = With To Be, To Have, the future (will) and modal verbs invert the verbs. You are = Are you?

With the present and past simple use do, does and did

5) Practise
1) Try this matching exercise. Match the answers with the questions.

2) Gap fill check. Fill in the gap with the right word.

Printable versions here

More exerceses
Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4





More

http://efllecturer.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/asking-questions-pre-int-int.html

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/frage.htm

Breakfast with Eric and Ernie

You are going to

• discuss breakfast
• look at breakfast / kitchen words
• watch a video about breakfast
• practise asking and answering questions in the present simple
• practise using auxiliaries in the present simple - Do, Don't, Does, Doesn't
• describe what you do for breakfast
  

Teacher's note. This activity is designed to practise the present simple. By substituting Did for Do / Does it can also practise the past. Students can describe the activity in the past if they know the past forms of eat, drink, listen, make, put, throw, catch, beat (eggs), squeeze, open, close, toss (pancakes), cut, take

Revise and practise the present simple here http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/04/present-simple.html


Scroll down for the SlideRocket presentation version of this post

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise were two famous British comedians. This clip shows how they make breakfast when they are listening to the radio.

Discuss

1) What time do you have breakfast?

2) What do you eat and drink for breakfast?
    Do you

• drink tea?
• drink coffee?
• drink orange juice?
• eat a cereal?
• eat toast?
• eat bacon and eggs?
• eat biscuits?
• eat pancakes?
• make your breakfast?

3) Look at the photo. What can you see on the table?
 

4) What is your kitchen like? Describe it.


5) Have you got these in your kitchen?

milk	knife
bowls	kettle
cups	teapot
tray	bread
plates	toaster
cupboards	lemons
eggs

6) What other things have you got in your kitchen? Make a list in 1 minute.eg kettle, cooker...

Watch the clip

1) Vocabulary check
What do these words mean?

throw, catch, slices, beat (eggs), squeeze, open, close, toss (pancakes), cut, take

2) Look at the photos. What are their names?

Eric

Ernie

3a) Look at the list of breakfast activities before you watch.
Put their names next to the activities you see them do. After you watch do the interactive exercises below the video
 

listen to the radio √ = Eric and Ernie	beat the eggs √ = Ernie
eat breakfast cereal	cut the lemons √ = Eric
drink coffee = X (They don't drink coffee)	squeeze lemons
eat biscuits	toss pancakes
throw slices of bread	put water in the tea pot
catch the bread	make the tea
put bread in the toaster	catch the toast
open the cupboards	take sausages out of the fridge

Watch

3b) How much can you remember? Choose the correct answer

Practise

Ask and answer questions
For example

• Does Eric catch the bread? Yes he does
• Does Ernie put the bread in the toaster. No he doesn't, Eric puts the bread in the toaster

Continue...

Revise and practise the present simple here http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/04/present-simple.html

Write

Describe what you do for breakfast
I have breakfast at 8 o'clock. I drink...

Practice of past simple

Look at the pictures at the end of the presentation below

Tell the story in the past. Use the vocabulary from the exercises and these verbs in the past; eat, drink, listen, make, put, throw, catch, beat (eggs), squeeze, open, close, toss (pancakes), cut, take

For example;  This morning Eric and Ernie had breakfast. They ate cereal and listened to the radio…

Breakfast with Eric and Ernie from David Mainwood

Question forms (Beginners > Elementary)

You are going to practise some activities to make questions. 

1) For beginner or elementary EFL students.

Ask the questions
Look at the answer, say the question.
Click the next page to see if you are right 

Question Forms - See the answer / Ask the questions from David Mainwood

2) For elementary EFL students.

Ask the questions
Look at the answer, say the question.
Click the next page to see if you are right.

Question Forms - See the answer / Ask the questions v2 from David Mainwood


 

Asking Questions (Pre-Int > Int)

You are going to practise making questions

 




Speak
Ask the questions

• When you see the answer, say the correct question.
• Click the next page to see if you are right.

Question Forms - See the answer / Ask the questions v3 from David Mainwood

Online exercises

Fill in question words - Exercise 1 

Fill in question words - Exercise 2 

How to form questions (answer given) - Exercise 1 

How to form questions (answer given) - Exercise 2 

How to form questions (answer given) - Exercise 3 

Mistakes in questions - Exercise 1 

Mistakes in questions - Exercise 2 

Questions and answers - Exercise