quick idea: your life in headlines
The aim of this exercise is focusing on key words within texts. The idea is to model one or more parts of your day on the board as headlines, e.g. Teacher in early morning no tea terror. Try to get students to guess what the story is. Students then write a headline for themselves and other students have to guess what the story behind the headline is. An exercise that can be done in conjunction with a reading exercise centred around looking at newspapers. It should be pointed out to students how headlines tend to use present simple in order to be dramatic and omit articles and auxiliary verbs. By getting students to deliberately omit these, it helps them focus on the reasons why they are used in the first place.
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