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Verbs go, play and do
In 9C you practice collocates of the verbs go, play and do. You also revise tenses.
1. There were 12 go collocates in unit 7C. How many can you remember?
1. go away (for the weekend)
2 What do you say when students ask you: Why do we use three different verbs for these activities?
I like going cycling, playing baseball and doing aerobics.
3 Listen and compare with your answer to question 2.4 Verbs with goGO (+ verb + ing for activities)
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motor-racing fishing sightseeing swimming jogging shopping skating snorkelling water-skiing cycling |
Print out the picture dictionary. Look at the go pictures. Match the pictures with the verbs. Listen and say the correct picture letter, A to K.
Example: go snorkelling I
Revision. Say what the people in the pictures each did yesterday.
A She went cycling.
PLAY (+ sports and (ball)games)
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volleyball basketball golf baseball monopoly football beach tennis tennis |
6 Match the sports and pictures, L to S. Say them with the correct stress. Listen and check.7 List two more games and two more ball games you can play. Mark the stress.
DO (+ martial arts/athletics/types of exercise)
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karate boxing tai chi exercise judo aerobics capoeira yoga athletics |
8 Match the activities with the pictures, T to AB. Listen, read and check your spelling.
DOT. do aerobics
U. do a_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
V. do b_ _ _ _ _
W. do c_ _ _ _ _ _ _
X. do e_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Y. do j_ _ _
Z.. do k _ _ _ _ _
AA. do t_ _ c_ _
AB. do y_ _ _
9 Revision. Look at the pictures and, in a minute, say what all the people were doing yesterday at 8 pm.
The woman in Picture T was doing aerobics.
Professional Tip
. Pictures are a teacher's best friend! Notice how in Exercises # 5 and 9, just by changing the time you can use any picture to practise any tense.
. Remember too that the more pictures (and other visual aids like realia, posters and board drawings) that you use when you teach the less your students will have to depend on translation.
. Remember too that the more pictures (and other visual aids like realia, posters and board drawings) that you use when you teach the less your students will have to depend on translation.
10 Complete with the correct verb play, go or do.
Last year I ______a lot of sport and my wife _____a lot of exercise too. I _____football once a week and ______ swimming. My wife _____ judo and ______ golf. She said she preferred ______ judo and gave up ______ golf this year. I don't know what she's going to do with all the equipment and clothes she bought. There's so much of it. I'd like to ______basketball but I haven't got enough time. Anyway we're both very fit because we _____dancing most Saturday nights.
11 Say one activity from this page that you
- really love (doing)
- would like to (do)
- enjoy (doing)
- quite like (doing)
- don't mind (doing)
- wouldn't like to (do)
- don't like (doing)
- hate (doing)
Example: I really going shopping.
12 Choose five of the activities and make longer sentences with more detail.
Example: I really like going shopping especially when I have plenty of time and money.
13 Update your Portfolio. Record yourself. Make notes first them talk about some of the activities which you did last year (look at the example in #10) and record your answers to #12 too.
à go to Unit 9 D
