Materials: Guidelines

Decide whether to pre-teach vocabulary items or ask students to look them up in dictionaries. Some guessing of meaning from context should be possible. Ask students to identify words in the second group of sentences that have opposite meanings to words in the first set.

Then instruct the class to write their own opinions about the items in the grid below and use the sentence patterns, already encountered to write reasons to back up those opinions. They should be working individually at this point. As they finish writing, group them into 4s and 5s to compare their answers and debate any that they disagree on. By first reading, then writing and finally talking, the phrases / sentence patterns should be firmly fixed in the students' minds (at least until the end of the class). It is however, important to listen for obvious errors and misapprehensions and point these out, both while they are writing and later during the discussion.

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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