Like & Don’t Like- Things In Common Sentence Completion

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Students share their preferences to complete sentences covering both of them like "We both adore....", then try to recall and analyse the strong and weak likes and dislikes language that they just used,

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Like don’t like things in common sentence completion

Tell and ask your partner about likes and dislikes to try to find things which you feel (exactly) the same as your partner about.

Useful phrases for comparing your likes and dislikes

“I… How about you?/ What about you?”

“How do you feel about…? (And how about…?)”

“Which do you like better… or …?”

“I guess that you…”

“Me too”/ I do too”/ “So do I”

“Me neither”/ “I don’t either”/ “Neither do I”

“Really? I … it”/ “Really? I prefer…”

 
Possible likes and dislikes topics

  • animals
  • art
  • brands
  • colours
  • drink
  • famous people
  • food
  • games
  • hobbies/ free time activities
  • household chores
  • music
  • places
  • school subjects
  • shops
  • sports
  • technology
  • toys

 

Likes and dislikes sentences to complete

We absolutely adore ______________________________________________________

We really love ___________________________________________________________

We love ________________________________________________________________

We really like ___________________________________________________________

We like ________________________________________________________________

We don’t mind __________________________________________________________

We don’t really like ______________________________________________________

We don’t like ____________________________________________________________

We really don’t like ____________________________________________________

We hate ______________________________________________________________

We really hate ___________________________________________________________

We absolutely despise/ detest/ loathe ______________________________________

We like __________________________________________________________ing.

We like __________________________________ing ________________________.

We like ______________________________________________________________s.

We like ___________________ when the weather is ___________________________.

We prefer ________________________s to/ than _____________________________s.

We prefer __________________________ing to/ than ________________________ing.

We prefer ____________ing _____________ to/ than ____________ing ___________.

We used to like __________________________________________ (but we don’t now).

We didn’t use to like ______________________________________ (but we do now).

We used to hate _________________________________________ (but now we like it).

 

Likes and dislikes language presentation

Without looking above, brainstorm words that can go before and/ or after these words:

We ____________________ adore/ despise/ detest/ loathe _______________________

 

We __________________________________ love/ hate _________________________

 

We _________________________________ like _______________________________

 

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Mixed answers

Use these to help with the task above.

absolutely                                      didn’t use to                             don’t                                 don’t really

really                                              really don’t                                     used to               …ing                   …s

 

Check above.

 

What are the differences between these phrases?

I like/ I love

I really love/ I absolutely adore

I like/ I prefer

I hate/ I loathe

I don’t like/ I hate

I really don’t like/ I don’t really like

I don’t really like/ I don’t mind

 

Write suitable phrases for each level of like and dislike in the correct places here:

We absolutely adore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We absolutely despise/ detest/ loathe

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Mixed answers             

We don’t like                  We don’t mind We don’t really like        We hate

We like                                          We love                           We really don’t like        We really hate

We really like                 We really love

Check as a class, then change groups and try to find one like and dislike of each level in common with a new partner. 

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