Life Of Danger: Explanation

Life Of Danger

• Details

Name of Item	A Life Of Danger
Activity Type	Vocabulary / Grammar / Discussion
Student Level	Lower intermediate - Intermediate
Time Allowance	20 - 30 minutes
Preparation Required	Preparing to explain vocabulary
Other Items Needed	Nothing special
Vocabulary	wild animal / electric shock / poisonous / speed limit / break the law / risky / risk taker / consume (drink)
Grammar	Warnings usin "First Conditional" sentence patterns

• Instructions

Decide whether to preteach / elicit vocabulary or whether to ask students to use dictionaries. Once they are conversant with the bold words in the initial sentences, they can ask each other the questions in pairs or small groups. Before they start, you might want to insist that they ask additional "follow-on" questions using the list of wh-question words listed in bold writing below. As well as introducing the general topic and some of the words, this activity helps to warm up the class.

After discussion has gone on long enough, you can draw attention to the second group of sentences. Here students will see a list of possibly dangerous items on the left, and a series of "1st conditional warnings" on the right. You might need to explain the meaning of the word "Warning" but it souldn't really be necessary to explain the grammar at this stage. Of course, if you really want to you can.

Students should match the items to the warnings fairly quickly and then compare answers until eventually everybody has the same answer. At this stage, you may want to just point out the key features of a first conditional sentence before they settle down to writing their own examples of dangerous items and the danger they pose. It's a good idea to monitor the writing and iron out any major errors as they occur.

Once everybody has two or three examples of their own they can try reading out their warnings and see if other class members can guess the items that they are connected with. You may want to demonstrate this with the help of one of the stronger students.

You may want to combine this worksheet with another worksheet on a similar theme, "Dangerous", also available on this site.