Hot Potatoes practice: exercises and content

Universidad de Carabobo Semestre: 2-2010
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Dpto. Idiomas ModernosAsignatura: Diseño de Materiales


Hot Potatoes practice: exercises and content

Part 1. Content and type of exercises

I. Unit title: I want to be a doctor
II. Topic: Occupations.III. Function: Talking about jobs and occupations
IV. Structures:
- “What”, “Where”, “Why”, “Do” Questions,
- Present tense: “To want”, “To work”, “To like”, “To be”.
- Because…- Affirmative & negative statements.
V. Target language:
- What does he do? He’s a waiter.
- What do you want to be? I want to be a teacher.
- Where does she work? She works at thesupermarket.
- Do you like your job? Yes I do.
- Why do you like your job? Because it’s interesting.
VI. Vocabulary:
Jobs/Occupations Places
Teacher School
Vet Animal Hospital
Doctor HospitalWaiter Restaurant
Police officer Police station
Cashier Supermarket
Postman Post office
Reporter TV station/ radio
Station
Opinions
Exciting
Fun
Boring
Hard
Interesting
Busy
DangerousStressful
Great












VII. Potatoes modules. Type of exercises: (Lo siguiente se refiere a los tipos de ejercicios que ustedes van a crear y el numero de items que debe tener cadauno de ellos)
- JCross: Crossword (images). Vocabulary: Jobs/occupations (eight items.) Vocabulario
- JMatch: Matching exercise (images). Vocabulary: Places (six items.) Vocabulario
- JMix: scrambledwords (six items) Vocabulario
- JCloze: Fill in the gaps exercise based on an aural text, (six items.) Vocabulario


- JMix: Scrambled sentences: a declarative sentence, an interrogative , anegative sentence, a long affirmative sentence (a reply to a question) and a long negative sentence (a reply to a question),
(five sentences in total)
- JQuiz1: Short answer exercise (five items.)...