47110 rocket booster

LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND TRANSLATION CENTRE
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Rocket Booster
Author: Mirjana Ljiljak-Vukajlovic
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2) and above, teenagers
Time: 20 to 30 minutes
Aims: Revise collocations with the verbs make, do, have and get.
Raise awarenes about protection of endangered animals (griffon vulture)

Procedure:
Stage 1:
Draw four rockets on the board, with the boosters divided into four sections.
Write DO, MAKE, GET, and HAVE on each rocket.

Stage 2:

Divide students into two groups and tell them to stand in lines facing the
board. Explain that their task is to send some food by means of rockets to starving
griffon vultures living on inaccessible peaks of Valjevo mountains in Serbia. However,
the rockets cannot reach the mountains unless you add some fuel sticks to the
rockets boosters. The problem is that they cannot use the same fuel sticks for all
the rockets – they have to be matched. You will call out the names of fuel sticks and
teams will take turns to write them in the appropriate rocket. The team with more
correctly matched fuel sticks is the winner.

Stage 3:

Call out the following 'fuel stick names': an operation, a promise, a photocopy, an
interest, to work, a speech, crossword, fun, a speech, time, the message,
work, the feel, an effort, judo, nowhere. Teams take turns to write the fuel stick
names in the appropriate rocket booster. Reward the winning team members with
candies, stickers, etc.

Stage 4:

Teams compete in writing as many sentences as possible, describing how they can
help in saving griffon vultures.
Their sentences must include the given collocations. Set a time limit of 5 minutes.
Reward the winning team again.

Answers:

DO a crossword, work, a photocopy, judo
HAVE time, an operation, an interest, fun
GET the message, the feel, to work, nowhere
MAKE an effort, a fuss, a promise, a speech