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TEACHER’S NOTES
Unit 3  Yes or no!   SB p20 Beginner FOURTH EDITION

AIM Pre-activity (5 minutes)


To practise forming Yes/No questions and • Write these words on the board:
short answers with to be
Is you in Are
LANGUAGE
Is/Are questions and short answers she Spain from Madrid
SKILLS
Speaking, Listening, and Writing
• Students use the words to form different questions. Write them on the
board, for example: Is she from Spain? Is she in Madrid? Are you from
MATERIALS Madrid? Are you in Spain?
One copy of the worksheet cut in half for each
group of eight students
• Students ask and answer the questions in pairs, responding with short
answers: Yes, I am / No I’m not; Yes, he is / No, he isn’t;
HOW TO CUSTOMIZE Yes, it is / No, it isn’t.
You can change this worksheet on computer
or by hand, using the customizable version.
For example: Procedure (20 minutes)
• Replace two names, two countries, and four • Students are going to form questions with Is… and Are… from
jobs. Use a mixture of singular and plural prompts.
nouns, e.g. an engineer, scientists, etc.
• Divide the class into Student As and Student Bs. Give Student As
worksheet A and Student Bs worksheet B. Student As and Student Bs
SUGGESTED ANSWERS work together in groups of four to form as many different questions
from the words on their worksheet as possible. One student from each
Worksheet A
group writes the questions the others call out. Set a time limit of five
Is your brother married?
Is your name Pablo/Claudia?
minutes for this stage.
Are they doctors? • After five minutes, ask the groups to stop and move their chairs so
Is he/she a shop assistant? that they face another four students from the other group. Students A
Are you tired? and Students B take turns to ask and answer the questions they have
Are you happy? written. A different student should ask and answer each time. For every
Is Jan your brother? correct question, the group that asks gets two points; for every correct
Are you from Japan? response, the group that answers gets one point.
Are you 26?
Are you/they/ Claudia and Jan married?
• When all the questions have been asked, the group with the most
Are you a student?
points wins.

Worksheet B
Is your house in Dublin? Extension (10 minutes)
Are you 20? • In their groups, students write questions they would like to ask the
Is your sister/she a teacher? students in another group, e.g. Is Khalid from Saudi Arabia?
Are you on holiday? Is Kiyoko’s flat in the centre of Tokyo? Is Luigi married?
Are you from Australia/Ireland?
Are you Thomas?
• The two groups ask and answer the questions. To make it more
interesting for the students, the students could do this with another
Are they students?
group.
Is he a police officer?
Is your sister/Thomas married?
Are you excited?
Are they businessmen?

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