Adjective Phrases - Attitude: Explanation

Adjective Phrases - Attitude

• Details

Name of Item	I'm Not Afraid Of Hard Work
Activity Type	Vocabulary / Grammar
Student Level	Intermediate
Time Allowance	15 - 25 minutes
Preparation Required	Preparing to explain unknown words
Other Items Needed	nothing special
Vocabulary	afraid / worried / indifferent / intrigued / fed up / out of touch / conscious of / pay attention / optimistic / amused / neglect
Grammar	appropriate sentence patterns for the above words

• Instructions

This sheet is designed to familiarize students with certain adjective phrases, their meanings and the appropriate prepositions to use with them.

Decide whether to pre-teach / elicit the vocabulary or whether to tell students to use dictionaries when they really can't guess what a word means. I think in this case, I might favour the latter method. Once they are ready, tell the class to match the phrases on the left with the approximate meanings on the right. The third column of the grid is provided for writing the relevant numbers in.

Once the whole group has the same answers move onto the preposition exercise and proceed in a similar manner to the previous part, only this time, the students write their answers (the actual prepositions theselves) in the second column.

For the discussion, students write a few sentences of their own using the phrases from the left-hand part of the grid. I usually encourage them strongly to write sentences that are actually true and relevant to them, which will make them more discussable later on. Finally, as students finish writing, separate them into groups and tell them to take turns reading the sentences they have written. Other group members should be instructed to ask "follow on" questions and try to keep a conversation going. It may help (with the "follow-on" questions) if you write a list of wh-question words on the white-board / black-board where everybody can see them.