Materials: Guidelines

For the first part, students work together to order each of the lists of seven words, and seeing them in the grid like this should help to demonstrate the equivalent meanings of some of the phrases. If you think that your class will have trouble with this, it may help to make card-sets for the two groups of words and let them order the cards, copying the correct hierarchial sequence onto their worksheets, after the whole group has it.

When the whole class finally has both lists copied, and have had a chance to read through them and familiarize themselves, they can move on to the sentence completion. They could either do this individually, comparing answers in small groups afterwards, or collaborate on the whole exercise from the start.

A possible set of correct answers is as follows:

1. majority
2. anybody
3. parents
4. everybody ("nobody "is possible)
5. all people
6. few people
7. all
8. few (possibly "most")
9. number
10. people

I have tried to make the content of these sentences vaguely contentious so for further reinforcement of the language you may want to try having small groups discussing whether or not the information is true, and changing any sentences that they all disagree with.

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