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Title: Heirs
Anna Fatneva
Lingua English Language School, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
E-mail: anna_fatneva@hotmail.com
Language level of students: Intermediate
Age group: Teens/Young adults
Time: 30 minutes
Skills: all
Grammar: Second conditional
Resources and materials: Pictures of people including some funny or odd ones, blank pieces of paper for writing texts about the people in the pictures.
Pre-activity
- Ask students if they think a person’s appearance can tell us something about his/her life.
- Show a picture of a person and ask students to speculate about what kind of life this person has.
- Ask students to think which areas of this person life’s they talked about and put them on the board (For example: name, age, place of living, personality, occupation, dreams, ambitions etc)
Activity
- Put students into pairs and have every pair choose a picture.
- Ask pairs to write a text about their person. They need to follow the categories you have on the board.
- Collect the pictures and the texts and put them on the walls around the classroom.
- Students stay in the same pairs. They go round the classroom, read the texts and choose the person who has the most interesting life.
- As an open class discuss students’ choices.
- Ask students to imagine that all these people are relatives. Their Australian uncle who was a millionaire died a few weeks ago. Have students work in the same pairs and talk how every person would spend the money if he inherited it.
- Tell students that only one person can come into the fortune, so they have to choose the best candidate. Students work in pairs and choose the best candidate.
Post activity
- As an open class every pair presents their choice and explains it to the rest of the class. As every pair wants their choice to become the best candidate, the discussion can become rather heated.
- At the end of the activity you can ask students to vote for the best candidate.
Follow up activity
Ask students to look through each others’ texts and correct grammar mistakes.
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