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5. Don't let the cat get near the fish.
6. Put the cat and the fish down.
7. Pick up the fish and the bird.
8. Put the fish down.
9. Pick up the cat.
10. Look at the cat and the bird.
11. Don't let the cat eat the bird!
12. Put the bird and the cat down.
13. Oh, that's better.
Write a sentence on the board. Write symbols of parts of speech of which the sentence consists.
Write a model of a sentence including as many symbolic presentations as you can. Decipher it. Use
concrete words instead of symbols.
Play a game. You need a playing board, a dice and a set of rules for a group of four students.
The Rules. 1. Put all your counters on START.
2. Decide who is going to begin and in which order you are going to play.
3. If you are the first player, roll your dice and move forward the number of squares indicated.
4. If you land on a symbol or a term, say what it means.
5. Your group must decide if you are right or not. Ask your teacher only if you are completely unable
to arrive at a decision. If your group agrees with you, roll your dice again and make another move
forward. If they disagree, move back three squares. (Your turn is now finished, so if you have now landed
on another symbol/ term, you may not give an opinion on its correctness).
6. If you land on a blank square, you simply stay where you are until your next turn. If you land on a
square where another person's counter is already standing, move on one square. This rule applies whether
you land on a symbol/term or on a blank square.
7. Each player proceeds the same way, starting always at square 1 (START).
8. To finish, you must land directly on square 64. If you are on square 62 and throw a six, count two
forward and four back to land on square 60 (and hope you throw a three on your next turn).
Ask the class to write grammar terms on pieces of paper, collect them, jumble and ask each student to
draw one and explain what it means. The class will guess what term it was.
Test yourselves as to whether you can use the indefinite article with the following. Consult an English-
English dictionary:
advice, author, barley, bath, beef, birth, bread, care, chalk, crayon, chat, felicity, geography, work,
interest, trunk, surprise, vase, news, patience, principle, repair, weather.
Test yourselves and say whether the following verbs can be used in the active and passive voice:
belong believe
contain know
consist love