Activity 1

Activity 1: (Receptive skill: Listening)
· Have students to work in pairs and listen to some people talking about different inventions, and then decide which invention they are talking about. (The aerosols can, the bar code, the remote control or the ring pull opener).
· Use realia.




· Give each pair of students a card with the question words: Who?, when? , where? , how? , how many types?. Ask them to try to answer these questions with information on the recording.
Who?


When?


Where?


How?


How many types?



· Ask them to try to use long answers (You may want to model: “The aerosol can was designed by the United States Department of Agriculture”).
· Ask students to look up the words they do not know.
· Help students with vocabulary they cannot find in the dictionary.
· Check their answers.
*Adapted from Business Objectives, OUP.