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Identifying products
ACTIVITY
Groupwork: reading, speaking
AIM
To put a set of sentences describing processes, specification and functions into categories and guess the products and services they refer to.
GRAMMAR AND FUNCTIONS The passive
VOCABULARY
to warehouse, interest, a positive balance, statements, overdrawn, transaction, quarter, RAM, voice answering machine, drive, video memory, operating system, p.c.m. (per calendar month)
PREPARATION
Make one copy of Worksheet for each group of four to six students and cut it up as indicated. Make sure you have a dictionary for each group.
TIME
10-15 minutes
PROCEDURE
1. Tell the students they are going to work with some texts describing processes and products. They have (to guess the products from reading sentences about them.
2. Divide the class into groups of four to six students.
3. Give each group a set of cards and a dictionary.
4. Tell them to put the cards into categories and to give the categories titles. Any categorisation and/or title is valid as long as the group agrees on it.
There are five original categories, each consisting of five sentences. They are as follows:
ANSWERS
A bar of chocolate (egg while, sugar, glucose, malt and water arc mixed... High standards of hygiene must ik ensured... The nougat and caramel is encased... They are checked... They arc wrapped...)
A pair of trousers (The fabric is pre-washed... They arc made of 7.5 ounce cotton... They are fully lined... All pockets are double stitched... They can be adjusted...)
A bank account (Cash which has been paid in... Interest will be paid... A charge will be made... If the account is overdrawn... Statements will be issued...)
A personal computer (The RAM can he expanded... It can be used as... The hard drive can be removed... It can be used with... For intensive graphics tasks extra video memory should be fitted.)
Paper (It is made from cellulose... Wood chips are heated... Impurities are removed... It is pressed... The final moisture content is reduced...)
FOLLOW-UP
With single-company groups, ask the .students to work together in pairs or groups of three to write a description of a procedure or product from their company. With multi-company groups, ask the students to write a description at home of a product from their own companies and read it to the rest of the class in the next lesson.
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