Settimana prossima devo iniziare il ripasso in alcune classi e io odio il ripasso... in senso tradizionale ovviamente. Mi rendo conto anche che qui più che mai c'è bisogno di inventarsi attività che siano utili (al ripasso appunto), stimolanti (dell'interesse) e che in qualche modo incanalino la vivacità (turbolenza???) di certe classi.
Pensavo a cosa far fare martedì in quinta e ho avuto questo ispirazione. La propino qui perché sono piuttosto orgogliosa di me stessa.

Is your teacher telling the truth? Why not find out (and revise verb forms!!!)??

In pairs, discuss if you think the following sentences about me (your teacher) are true or false.
Then take turns with your other school-mates to ask me questions, to see if they ARE true or false.
Finally, correct the false sentences.
(note that you CAN?T simply rephrase the sentence to ask the question
E.g. Yesterday afternoon I was run over by a bus.
Don?t ask: ?Were you run over by a bus yesterday??
Ask, for example: ?What happened to you yesterday afternoon??
Or: ?Did anything special happen to you yesterday afternoon??)

1. I was born in Switzerland on March 3rd, 1936.
2. I?m fourteen years old.
3. When I was your age, I went to Liceo Linguistico, where I was taught English and French by mother-tongue teachers.
4. I have never been to Britain.
5. I can speak English and French fluently, I can speak a bit of Spanish but my German is, unfortunately, very poor.
6. I can?t play any musical instruments.
7. I have been teaching English at high-school for 14 years.
8. The last school I taught at was Istituto Pessina, where I worked for 12 years.
9. I?m very good with computers and I can build websites.
10. I live on my own.
11. I bought a house and moved out of my old place 5 years ago.
12. I?ve got seven boyfriends, one for each day of the week.
13. Yesterday at this time I was watching television with my mother.
14. Last night I had already cooked dinner when a friend of mine invited me for a pizza and I decided to go.
15. Last summer (2006) I went to Madrid for the first time in my life.
16. I?m going to sleep till late tomorrow morning, as it is my day off for this week.
17. For Christmas I?ll probably collect 10 Euros from each of my students and go to California to visit my sister?s family.
18. Even if the weather is fine next Sunday I will stay at home and be a couch potato all day.
19. If I won loads of money at Superenalotto or any other lottery I would probably give some to charity but also keep some to myself to finish paying for the house and maybe take a year off work.
20. If I had had to stay at Pessina I wouldn?t have been too happy.

Per chi ama giochi di parole e inglese, e mastica bene la lingua d'albione, ecco un link molto divertente.
http://phoenomi.com/2006/09/12/a-little-wordplay-for-lovers-of-words/