Traffic rules

Hey everyone,

The year is finishing and so it's the blog's activity; I'm sharing the second last activity for this year. Thank you all for your encouraging comments and the many many visits you paid the blog this year. I look forward to getting more feedback and reaching more teachers in order to share, discuss and make this experience even more enriching.

This is a lesson I created and used with my A2 students to talk about rules. Throughout these activities students will recognize and differentiate the use of can, can't, have to and be allowed to, classify and apply them. It was a very meaningful lesson for my students; I hope it can be useful to yours as well.

As a follow up, students could go to glogster and create a poster with the traffic rules (or any other kind of rules) in their community, or the most important to them.

What do you think? 

Here's the worksheet

Warm regards,
Claudio

A good boss

I'm sharing a short lesson I used with B2 students. We were talking about work and I decided to take advantage of the oportunity to revise the use of modal verbs for necessity and suggestion. In this lesson students discussed, evaluated and constructed the concept of being a good boss.

Warm up: Classify the following adjectives as positive or negative for a boss. Justify your choice. (Student's answers)

Confident - friendly - sociable - pushy - kind - ambitious - generous - shy - 

I think _____ is positive because...
You have a point but sometimes...
I believe _____ is negative because...
Maybe but sometimes it is goo/bad because...

Activity 1: Understanding a scene.
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Activity 2: True or false? 

1. Nick thought he was going to be the new senior vice president                  
2. The boss decided to absorb the responsibilities                                               
3. He is going to remodel is office                                                                       
4. He will take a 70% of the additional salary                                                    
5. Nick has a bad reaction                                                                                   

Activity 3: Are the men shown in the video good bosses? Why? (Student's answers)


Closure: In groups, define what a good boss is using the following expressions. Then report it to the class.

A good leader should...
He/ she ought to...
A good boss must...
He/ she has to...
A good boss can't...

Stay tuned,
Claudio