Put the correct verb in the gaps Remember to add 13) The blond lady _ sunglasses is or are and ing 14) The cat _ a seagull Give jog point stand serve cry queue fix paint post wear wear chase lean read scream cut hold eat stop talk cross make walk put look fall paint climb text 1) The lady in sunglasses _ a magazine 2) The policeman _ an ice cream 3) The baby in the pushchair 4) An old lady _ a letter 5) A traffic warden _ a ticket on the blue car 6) A man a call in the telephone box 7) A lady in a pink tracksuit She _ her dog Oops, where’s it going??? 8) A man in a white overall _ a ladder 9) A boy on a skateboard _ the road 10) At the top right, the artist is in his room He _ a picture 11) In the fish shop, people up 12) A lady out of her window She to the man on the roof who the aerial 15) The boy in the red cap someone 16) The boy in the fish shop _ a ball 17) The lady in the green car _ because she thinks they will hit the boy on the skateboard 18) The policeman _ at the blond lady 19) The green car _ at the zebra crossing 20) The boy with the mobile and the boy on the zebra crossing red caps 21) The workman on the ladder the gutters green 22) The tin of paint _ to the ground 23) The lady behind the counter in the fish shop _ a bag of chips to the man 24) The angry man who beside the blue car his finger 25) The barber _ a customer’s hair They about the weather Well, they are English! Find the mistake in the sentence and Put in is or are to complete the sentence and in correct it or on: 1) The lady who is jogging is wearing a blue 1) There _ a cat the roof tracksuit 2) The policeman is eating a packet of crisps 3) The barber is cutting a lady’s hair 4) The cat on the roof is sun bathing 5) The workman who is climbing a ladder is wearing a blue overall 2) There _ many people the bus 3) There _ two cars the picture 4) There _ four birds the roof 5) There _ a workman a ladder 6) There _ a man the telephone box 7) There _ two people the green car 6) The blond lady is texting her friend 7) A young boy is posting a letter 8) The traffic warden is directing the traffic 9) People are wearing winter clothes 10) There are lots of passengers on the No.6 bus 11) The baby in the pushchair is sleeping 12) This is a countryside scene 13) The boy who is texting is wearing a green cap 14) The jogger has got a big, black dog 15) A boy on a bike is crossing the road 16) The artist is a beautiful young woman What?Why?Who?Where?When?How?Whose? Answer the questions about the picture 1) What is the weather like? How you know? 2) Why is the workman climbing the ladder? 3) Who is cutting the man’s hair? 4) Where is the scene set? 5) When is this? Is it morning, afternoon, or evening? How can you tell? 6) How many people are on the bus? Where might they be going? 7) Whose dog is it? What is it doing? 8) What is the name of the fish shop? Higher level questions/tasks: 1) The barber shop is called ‘Sweeney Todd’ Sweeney Todd used to cut throats Do you think it’s a good name for a barber shop? Why or why not? 2) The picture contains a lot of humour Do you agree? Can you find examples? 3) Can you find an example of a play on words? 4) Look at each of the characters in the Suggestions for further use of the picture: 1) SPLAT! Put the picture on screen Split the class into two groups One member from each team comes up The teacher gives a sentence e.g ‘He is feeling very angry because he’s getting a ticket.’ The first student to touch the right character gets a point You can develop this game to have the students make the sentences picture What you think each of them is 2) QUESTIONS Ask the students to write thinking or feeling? questions for each other about the picture and 5) Write a short role play of the conversation after a while, take the picture away, so it’s a between the motorist and the traffic warden memory game 3) BEAT THE CLOCK Put a student in the hotseat The rest of the class must ask questions about the picture, but the student in the hotseat cannot answer yes or no E,g, Is the policeman eating a packet of crisps? He is eating an ice cream etc Brilliant fun! They love to try to catch each other out and they are learning Key for the first exercise 1) is reading 2) is eating 3) is crying 4) is posting 5) is giving 6) is making 7)is jogging/is walking 8) is climbing 9) is crossing 10) is painting 11) are queueing 12) is looking/is talking/is fixing 13) is wearing 14) is chasing15) is texting 16) is holding17) is screaming 18) is looking19) is stopping 20) is wearing 21) is painting 22) is falling 23) is serving24) is standing/is pointing 25)is cutting/are talking Mistakes in the sentence 1) pink2) ice cream 3)man 4) chasing a seagull 5)white 6) reading a mag 7)an old lady 8) giving out a ticket9)summer 10) No 11) crying 12) town/street 13) red 14) small brown 15) on a skateboard 16) handsome, slightly older man