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inal oral exams always demand hours of thinking,planning and preparing. For this reason, TheTeachel's Magazine provides you with ready-madematerial to face the end-of-the-year assessmentmaking your task lighter.

;ue, poster 1 presents a holiday scene on the beach withopportunities for speaking, describing, giving opinions orling the main subjects and grammar points coveredut the school year.

3 to the skill you want to assess, you can present thea whole or divide it in various scenes for the students torr make up their own stories.

w some examples of the activities you can carry out withrr. Just adapt them to your students' age and level.

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ís / there &retudents to make sentences using there is/are. E.g. Thereparasols on tlte beach. There is a radio. There areetc.

What c&n/c&n't these people do?Have üe students point at the people and tell their partners whatthis person can/can't do, e.g. He cdn't swim. He can run fast. Hecan't play football, etc.

Wlwt is he/slrc dotng?Say a sentence and ask the students to point at the right scene.Say Tlzere is a man selling í.ce cream and there are two cltildrenbuying ice cream; There i.s a man sining on the floor. He isIi.stening to the radi.o.As a variant you may divide the students in pairs. Student Amakes a sentence and student B guesses what scene student A isspeaking about.

What &re they doing?Ask the students to say what the people are doing. There are lotsof actions to describe. E.g. He is surftng. He is swimming. Tlrcyare playing vollqtball. Tlrcy are playing football. Thq are eating,etc.

:eposition and ask the students to make a sentence using it.Ler;E.g. A woman fs sifüing under the parasol.

I happened yesterdey?students to write a list of actions they can see on the

Ihey should write the past tenses of the verbs and makees describing what the people did yesterday.

happy or sedTstudents to describe the feelings and mood of differentAsk Is tttis boy happy or sad? (He i.s sad.) WIwt ís he doíng?ying.) Wtty ts he crying? (Because lrc can't see his mum.)

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or written composttionsa different scene to each student and ask them to write alion. They should include as many details as they can.

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Ask the students why people are feeling that way. E.g- Wlty f-sth/s boy so tired? Wlty i.s he so sad? Wtty i.s the vendor in a badmood? Wlty is the mon in the water so neruous? etc. The '

students may come up with answers like these: Because he hasbeen playing footbalL. Because lrc ts Lost. Because lze can't swim,etc.

Yesterday I went to the beactl end ...

Give the students this heading and have them make an oralcomposition on a day on the beach.Working in pairs, student A makes questions and student Banswers them. They can compare the scene on the poster withtheir latest holiday on the beach.

All these suggestions can also be used as remedial work beforefinal exam instances. For this reason you will find on thephotocopiable pages, a set of activity cards which can beassigned to individual students, depending on the language itemyou want them to work on.

As you see, possibilities are plentiful. You only have to find theappropriate exercise for the item of grammar or vocabulary youwant to revise or assess

Teacher: This picture accompanies the ones on poster 1 and the cards on pages 12 and 13. You may photocopy it ant

distribute one picture every 3 or Astudents in case it is difficult for them to see the details on the poster. Then distribu

the cards with the exercises according to each student's need.

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Al Rnswer the questions looking at the picture.e.g. Can the lifeguard run fast? Yes, he can.

1) Can the fat boy play football?2) Can the girls play volleyball?3) Can the little boy swim?4) Can the young man ride a motorboat?5) Can the child fly the kite?6) Can the boys surf?7) Can the mum see her baby?

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Bl loot at the picture, ask and answer using thefollowing words. Use can.e.g. Can the man ridethe motorboat? No, he can't,

1) ride a motorboat2) swim3) surf4) make sand castles5) see his mum6) run fast

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C) Comptete the sentences using havel haven'tl haslhasn't (got),e.g.The man has a motorboat.

1) The lifeguard ..a cap.2) The boy....-..... fl ippers and a snorkel.3) The motorboat rider4) The old man .............a newspaper.5) The family ...a parasol.6) The surfers .........b1ack suits.

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D) loot at the picture and write sentences in thePresent Continuous Tense using the following verbs.e.g.The girls are playing volleyball.

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1) ............... two boys playing tennis.2) ............. an old woman reading the newspaper.3) .............. a young woman sunbathing.4) .............. two boys surfing.5) .............. a child wearing a mask and a snorkel.6) three men selling ice cream.7) .............. a white dog jumping.8) .............. a baby crying.9) .............. two children making sandcastles.

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Gl Complete the sentences with an adjective.e.g.The pretty girlis sunbathing.

1) The ... woman is looking at the strong man.2) There are two ... women walking along theshore.3)The man selling ice cream is.........................4) The lifeguard is ................5) The ... child is crying.6) There is a .................... girlwatching the volleyball match.7) The boy can't play football because he is

8) There is an .......... man reading a newspaper.9) The motorboat rider is ...............10) The child in yellow shorts is ................

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Hl Compare, then complete with an adjective in thecorrect form.

1) The woman in the black bikini is ....................... than thefat woman.2) The lifeguard is a .....................swimmer than the mandrowning.3) The girl throwing the ball is .than the othergirls.a) The tired boy is ...........................than the rest of the team.5) A motorboat is ........................than a surfboard.6) ln the walking couple, the woman is..............................thanthe man.7) The man drinking afizzy drink is .............................. thanthe lifeguard.8) The man reading the newspaper is.............................. thanthe man selling ice cream.

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1) The surfer with a yellow surfboard surfs .........but the other surfs .........2) The football players p1ay.......... but the fat boyplays3) The lifeguard runs ........................, he works4) The boy is playing music

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El Rnswer the questions in the Present Continuous Tense.

1) Are the boys playing basketball?2) What are they playing?3) Are the young women wearing sandals?4) ls the man selling sweets?5) What is he selling?6) What is the child flying?7) Are the boys windsurfing?8) What are they doing?9) ls the young man drinking coffee?10) What is he drinking?11) ls the woman under the parasol sleeping?

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Present Continuous Tense.

1)The small baby

2)The fat boy ..........basketball.

3) The family their lunch.

4) The motorboat rider ........

5)The man in the sea

6)A boy .. a mask and a snorkel.

7)The mother ..her baby.

8) The baby

9)The kid ...................h is kite.

10)The old man ..4 newspaper.

11)The dog ...........

12)The boy... . . . . . . . . a bal l to the dog.

Kl Complete the postcard.

Dear Julie,

Here | (be) in this beautiful place on the

coast. The weather .............. ...... (be) nice, hot and

sunny but a bit windy. Yesterday | ................. ... (go)to

the beach. There (be) a lot of people.

They (enjoy)the nice day. Some women

(sunbathe), others (walk).

Some children (play) and a baby

(cry) because he (not see)

his mum. Some boys ......... (surf)or

(swim) and a young man ...(fall) off his motorboat while he ........,..... (ride). The

lifeguard (have) a very busy day because a

man nearly ................ (drown).Love,Anne

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