play games with english book 1

Titles in this series include: Play Games With English Book 1 Colin Granger 0435 280600 English Puzzles 2 Doug Case 0435 282816 Heinemann International a division of Heinemann Educat

Titles in this series include:

Play Games With English Book 1 Colin Granger 0435 280600

English Puzzles 2 Doug Case 0435 282816

Heinemann International

a division of Heinemann Educational Books Ltd

Halley Court, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8EU

OXFORD LONDON EDINBURGH MADRID ATHENS BOLOGNA

MELBOURNE SYDNEY AUCKLAND IBADAN NAIROBI GABORONE HARARE

KINGSTON PORTSMOUTH (NH) SINGAPORE

ISBN 0 435 280600

© Colin Granger and John Plumb 1980

First published 1980

All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced,

stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any

means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or

otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers

Cover design and illustrations by John Plumb

Typeset by The Castlefield Press of High Wycombe

Printed in Great Britain by Thomson Litho Ltd, East Kilbride, Scotland

91 92 93 94 95 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13

Dear Reader,

If you ave_using this book at home , heve is some

infovinedtion (for you

I You will fd a new game on almost every page of

this book For example, 5371 is on pagel, and

THE NAME GAME js cu page 2

2 Read the instructions bee _

Ø3) “

3 Write your amswevs on a piece of paper, Ep

ov, inthe book if there is yoom ^%

4 Look at the solution at the back of the book

The page number for the solution is at the bette

of the game page / == Scluhimenpage

5 See wa ΠSay" right ( FF)

6 The games in this book ave graded 4

The easiest ave at the-frout , the move difficult ave

at the back

Have fun!

Calin Gramger amc Jon Rumb

Givinevley —

| would like to thank David King of the Davies's School in Brighton for his

help in the preparation of this book, Also to teachers at the Migros

Klubschule, Basle and to Jathan and Nicola for ideas and suggestions for language games

Observation.5 Definitions Categories 3 Who?

Memeory 6 The Word Order Game Where?

Observation 6 What Did They Really Say?

Verb Quiz Vocabulary Quiz Memory 3 — questions Memory 4 — questions Memory 5 — questions Memory 6 — questions Solutions

Index of Structure anc Language Points

2 Clase the book

3 Write down all the things you can remember

How many things can

watch make clean eat

put on wash read

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listen to write play

have

Solution on page 60

ERVATION |

This is Nicola Nicola is a student

This is her room

Sie

“KP “GIẾT? (HH

You don’t know Nicola, but you can write a lot about her

just by looking at her room For example:

She dawea a cote: She studies Mcevtce, —

Write eight more sentences about Nicola using these verbs:

play listen to read wear drink eat watch take

Solution on page 60

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1.Look at this 2 Close the 3.Write down picture for book all the things two minutes you can

remember

(2) What's in the suitcase? |

Theve's a shit , there are two paws of shoes, SS,

there ave Some magazines

Sally Kate Jason

a secretary ateacher a shop assistant

Find two things that

these people do in Steve Bob Carol

their jobs adecorator a gardener a photographer

1 She answers the telephone S&S

She types le#ers

For example: Sally

You have four minutes to find them There are sixteen mice

Theve's a movse in the cupboard There's a move

behind the door There's a mouse on top of the cupboard,

oven door cupboard salt sink plate drawer cat

glass chair cup piece of cheese saucepan

Solution on page 67

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WHAT'S MISSING ?

There is a deliberate mistake in these pictures

Find what is missing

You have two minutes

1 lkhaavk gếta dial

2 The howewt got amy headligs SS,

It can swim in the

sea and walk on the land It cannot fly It eats fish It lives in very cold countries

eats leaves It has

got four legs

It locks like a

B It's very small It

has got a long tail

It lives in nearly all

horse It lives In grass It has got black and white stripes

It has got fingers

It can climb trees

It is brown It lives

on nuts and fruit

[t lives in Africa

and Asia

has not got any E

legs It eats small

animals It is 1 white It eats fish

sometimes i and lives by the

SOME OF THE THINGS SOME OF THE

‘\ THINGS SHE

= WHAT SHE LIKES AND WHAT SHE DOESN'T LIKE}

She likes cheese, but-she doesn't like meat,

She likes sheen, but-she doesn''t like cows

NOW, LOOKING AT THE WORDS, CAN YOU GUESS WHY SHE LIKES

SOME THINGS AND NOT OTHERS ? REMEMBER THE NAME OF

THE TOWN SHE COMES FROM

Solution on page 62

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opotihe Difference

Compare the pictures Write what is different in picture B

For example: In picture B i,

The woman's opening herumbrelia, {t's vaAuwd

There are ten more differences between picture A and picture B

Try to find them

Solution on page 63

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to work on the tube He does not

own a car Nick does not like sport

He likes reading and watching

television His hobby is collecting

antique furniture He is also very

She works in a hospital outside Brighton She drives to work every day Teresa’s hobby is painting She is also interested in jazz and has got a big collection of records, She likes sport very much, especiaily tennis and squash

to work

Look at the picture of Frank’s flat He was having breakfast there a

} few minutes ago =

- Look at = the CC, 3.Answer the

this picture 70YZ book ¥;-1 questions on

Vive \ for two CPlelotels oe | page 52

English is full of words

‘borrowed’ from other

languages Which languages do you think these words come from?

6

7 ltalia' uc sec 8 Hỉndustani

ERVATION 2

&S” There are some deliberate mistakes in this nineteenth

century family scene

The police believe that this man took part in a robbery in London last

weekend He tells them that he was

not in London at the weekend His

alibi is that he was in Scotland

" on a British Airways flight l dinner at

the8 restaurant in Edinburgh After dinner |

_— a film at the Odeon Cinema Myticket Ể

l at the Cumberland Hotel in Room

On Saturday morning l a car and

St Andrews Ì a deposit of £

nòn Ì fishing In the evening [ to

Edinburgh On Sunday morning Ì the-10.55

tren to London I baek in London at 17.05

travel see hire return cost buy fly stay

have catch arrive pay drive go

Solution on page 64

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COMPARATIVE QUIZ

Compare the following

For example:

bigger than tue

SUPERLATIVE QUIZ

&,

Puta [7] next to the correct answer

1 Which is the `2, Which is the longest

largest ocean? river?

oo 6 Which is the

5 Which is the most spoken language?

CATEGORIES 1

Last weekend you

Went for a walk in the country Describe your weekend:

rare it wad cold

LIKE?

Solution on page 65

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hammer ladder glue plug bricks

screwdriver paint saw

Solution on page 65

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Angela is a teacher She

is going on a picnic and wants to take some of her students

14 GOINGTO She cannot take

BRING AN APPLE everyone as her car is

‘| too small

THE PICNIC 0N To decide who can come WHAT ARE YOU she asks

EM GOING TO BRING A SANDWICH

BRIAN, SIMON, MAY AND LUCY CAN

COME ON THE PICNIC THE OTHERS CAN T

Solution on page 65

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Nicola is going away for the

weekend Find out what

she is going to do by

looking at the picture

For example:

She's gowg to go 8WAUALAđ

She's goma to reac adetectie story

&` i AXNof America

wl) £208 Put a next to the

ek " correct answer

1 Where does the President of the

United States live and work?

4 When did the American Civil War end?

George Abraham Ulysses

Washington L_] Lincoln LÌ Grant L]

6 Why do the Americans celebrate the 4th of July?

The first moon landing ["]

Declaration of Independence [|

The end of the American Civil War LÌ

7 In which city is Hellywoou te Z2

New York L] San Francisco L] ot Los Angeles L]

The Wright family

are preparing to

go away on holiday What do

they have to do

before they leave?

m 2 Close the fia] 3 Then look

PERSONALITY QUIZ

Fit the name to the clues

Who

1 44 said ALL ¡ NEEP TO MAKE

A COHEDY [SA PAEK,A PRETTY đlRL ANDA POLICEMAN

4 was American?

as wrote The Old Man Sử

and the Sea ? (Ccz

was born in England?

lived in the USA?

died in Switzerland?

a Pree a me 03

COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU; ASK WHAT YØU CAN PO FoR YOUR, COUNTEY

5 said

2 was bornin Hollywood, USA?

became one of America’s

most famous film stars ? sy Game from one of America’s

acted in Gentlemen tichest families?

Prefer Blondes? Was assassinated in 1963?

- wrote nothing himself {all we know he said was

+ + was born in Spain? written by his followers)?

lived in Paris? „ ng was made to drink poison

painted Guernica? by the government?

Socrates Charlie Chaplin Picasso John F Kennedy

Marilyn Monroe Ernest Hemingway

Solution on page 67

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ERVATION 4

Six people in this park are doing something

wrong The park keeper is going to tell them off

What does he say?

> m For example:

Ha _ Fe) You shouldu't drive your

Find five more people who are doing something wrong and

write what the park keeper says to them

CONNECTIONS 2

Find the matching pictures

For example: FEF

ch ESTATE AGENT

ea

Now write a sentence

| wenk tothe estate agents to look fr a a:

ail ml i rc TH TE POSE OFFICE ©

For example: Farad tM the kettle, wh water (E),

then boil the waler(G), thew

Put these

pictures into the correct order

„ the for a few same tea

into the cup minutes into the =

-.the teapoE

| De othe teapot the water wit boiling v water

fill boil warm leave pour put

i the mixture -+ Cree eggs

—fhedl | ee ian | into about

đa N

oS SO 210 ạ Ep

wo with sale 4 little oif

break season beat pour fold heat cook

Solution on page 68

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W3

When did these events happen?

2, Assassination of President Kennedy Second World War

6 First man 7 United Nations 8 Last American

in space opens first session soldiers leave Vietnam

OBSERVATIONS

` Look at this picture of the reception ofa

holiday hotel Youcantell what some of the people have

been doing this morning bylooking at the picture

nmontras $0

eon walking

Write six more sentences using these verbs:

sightsee sunbathe play dive shop paint

Solution on page 69

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cooks in tests peoples serves food looks after

a restaurant eyes in a restaurant small children

steals from makes furniture people's homes out of wood Solution on page 69

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Look at these time words Some use ‘in’,

some use ‘on’ or ‘at’

in Havel

For example: I'm leaving on Satay, GM

Put them in the correct column

Now write a sentence for each person

For example: &

invent compose build write fight

discover paint win

Solution on page 70

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7X @ 1 Look at the picture

f for two minutes

| WANT TO GO AND SEE ALL THESE

FAMOUS SIGHTS WHERE WILL | HAVE

6 Golden Gate e Bridge 7 Taj Mahal 8 Arc de Triomphe

London Agra Berlin Paris Rome San Francisco

New York Istanbul

Solution on page 77

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ERVATIONE

Look at this picture of a holiday hotel's swimming pool

Some people are going to do something, and some

people have just done something

For example:

goug to dive Ape |

Write four more are going to do sentences and

four more have just done sentences using these verbs:

get dressed getout buy throw have eat cut pour

Solution on page 71

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WHAT DỊD THEY

There is a mistake in these quotations

Do you know what it is?

| CANNOT TEU THE TRUTH,

VERB QUIZ

Find three nouns to go with each verb

For example:

| You wrike with o pen,

a pencil and abiyo

yke close enjoY

answer return oP) Ecce

tap

screwdriver plug kettle saucepan

pillow heater fork

Se ee eee pee fan eae ieat Saree Ne

ODD WORD OUT COUNTRIES AND

cabbage waiter NAIROBI Ae 7

potatoes doctor ® ® BRASIHA

Memory3 page 17

Answer these questions about the picture

For example:

Did he make the bed? No, he didu'é

Did he have breakfast? Yes, he did

Did he have coffee for breakfast?

Did he have an egg?

Did he close the window?

Did he open his mail?

Did he read the morning newspaper?

Did he wash the breakfast things?

Did he take his umbrella to work?

Did he have a shower this morning?

Did he do any washing?

Did he switch off the gas? BUS

Did he switch off the light in the bedroom? STOP

Did he take in the milk?

Memory 4 page 32

These are the jobs the Wrights have to do before they leave

for their holiday Try to remember if they have done the jobs

Memory 5 page 37

Now ANSWER THESE

QUESTIONS

pon'T Look AT PAGE 37

AGAIN UNTIL YOU'VE

Where were you standing? (You)

{at the back, in the middle, at the front of the queue)

| was stamdung cd-Hhe trout of the queue ,

Who was standing behind you?

(a woman, a man, a girl}

A woman way standing) behind me

1 What was the woman behind you wearing? A

(skirt and pullover, a jacket and a skirt,

a dress)

2 What was she holding? A

(a parcel, an envelope, a telegram)

3 What was the customer at the counter sending? B

(a telegram, a letter, a parcel)

4 What was he wearing? B

(a suit, jeans and a shirt, jeans and a jacket)

5 What was the clerk giving him? c

{some stamps, an envelope, a form)

6 What were the two men coming into the post office

carrying? D and E

(a suitcase, a parcel, a bag)

7 Who were they looking at? D and E

(you, the postman, the clerk}

8 What was the postman unlocking? F

(the front door, the safe, the postbox)

Solution on page 68

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