Percentage Cards
• Details
| Name of Item | Percentage Cards |
| Activity Type | Game / Warmer |
| Student Level | Lower Intermediate - Upper Intermediate |
| Time Allowance | 10 - 15 minutes |
| Preparation Required | Copying worksheet onto card and cutting out individual cards - 10 minutes per set. |
| Other Items Needed | Scissors / copier-friendly card |
| Vocabulary | Nothing special |
| Grammar | Sentence patterns concerning percentages |
• Instructions
In this game it's best for each pair of students to have a set of cards, so initial preparation could be quite time consuming. However, once they are made, you can use them again and again with other classes. You may want to try this out with one of your smaller groups first, though.
Before they can start the game, students need to be introduced to one or two question patterns for asking about percentages. You could do this by writing jumbled or gapped sentences on the black-board / white-board and elicitting answers. Suitable patterns might be:
What percentage of people live in cities?Once they are quite happy about these, it's time to move on to the game. The easiest way to explain the game is to demonstrate with the help of one of your stronger students. The procedure is as follows:
What percentage of this class is present today?
What percentage of your body is made up of water?
In pairs (or maybe threes), one student takes a card and hides it from the partner. The student with the card then asks the other student questions to try to make her / him say the percentage on the card (i.e. he / she is trying to elicit the percentage on the card). Once everybody has understood what they have to do, the various pairs can proceed through their pack of 15 cards. If you want to make it a little easier, you can write up the complete list of 15 percentages listed on the cards so that the person guessing knows the range of possibilities she / he has to choose from. If you want to add a competitive element, you could make it a race to see which partnership can finish first.
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• Download And Print
You have a choice of two different methods of getting this handout to your printer. It all depends on whether your computer has "Adobe Acrobat Reader" installed. If it has, then this would be the recommended method for printing out the worksheet. Try selecting the "PDF (Adobe Acrobat)" link below. If all goes well, a new application window should appear including a print button, which when selected will print out one copy.
If, on the other hand you do not have "Adobe Acrobat" select the "HTML (web page)" link below. (Also, this method is recommended for users of Netscape Navigator, which seems to have trouble interacting with the Acrobat program like this.) If all goes well, a new browser window will open, from which you can either click the "print button" on the toolbar or open the "File" menu, select "Print" and then adjust the "Print Dialog Box" to your own preferences.
The final link below is to enable you to print this "instruction page" if you want to. Click on the link, and when the page appears on a new screen you will be able to print it using the browser's "print button" or "file menu". After printing, close the window again so that you can continue to navigate around the site.
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