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KET Topics List

Topic Sets Blank (PDF)

Travel and Holidays (PDF)

House and Home (PDF)

Work and Jobs (PDF)

Activities List

Topic Sets

1. Choose two or three topics from the Handbook list (two for paired work, three for small groups).

2. Make a copy of one worksheet per topic.

3. Write each of your chosen topic areas in the centre of each worksheet. Add four or five sub-topics in the empty boxes. This can be done by part of speech (for example, nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions etc.) or by categories.

For example, on the sample worksheets given here, the 3 topics are:

A    Work and jobs (PDF)
B    House and home (PDF)
C    Travel and holidays (PDF)

The sub-topics are

A: in a hospital, in a hotel, at a school, in a shop, in a restaurant

B: things in a bedroom, things in a bathroom, things in a kitchen, things in a living room, things in a garden

C: what to take to the airport, what to take to the beach, what to wear in the mountains, what to carry with you in a city, what to buy to take home

4. Photocopy enough of these worksheets to give one to each student in the class. Distribute them so that each person in the pairs or groups has a different sheet.

5. Allow students two or three minutes to write words under each sub-topic. For example, on sample worksheet A: 'Work and jobs', sub-topic: 'in a hospital', students could write: doctor, nurse, surgeon, receptionist etc.

6. Students then exchange sheets with their partner or group member and are given a further minute for additions to be made to the lists. Repeat if necessary, if you are working with groups of 3.

7. Feed back on different words students have, either orally with the whole class or by displaying the worksheets, and award a prize to the pair or group with the most words.

Variation: at step 5, instead of working individually, students can work as a group on one worksheet only. Then at step 6, they move onto a different topic / worksheet and repeat the process.