Questions about Daily Routines- Mix and Match

Questions about daily routines mix and match

Instructions for teachers

There are three versions of this activity. The first one is given on one page to save paper and photocopying. The second is on cards to make it more flexible and to make matching up a more physical activity. However, the mix or match activity is usually best if done as a whole book, with each page cut into flaps which are turned separately to make good and bad matches. This makes it similar to the many mix and match books in which the reader makes people, monsters, etc with odd matches of head, body and legs, or more like the classic book Do You Like Ketchup on Your Cornflakes?

There are also a few possible activities, but the best is usually to get one student to make a wrong, funny or crazy match and then for one or more other students to make it more correct/ sensible while keeping as many parts the same as they can. In this case, this means one student trying to make a question which is sure to get a “No” answer, then their partner trying to change it to one which the original person will answer with “Yes”. All the options have at least one sensible match and at least one silly match.

To make a book, you need to staple the pages together on side, perhaps after adding a cover, and then cut along the dotted lines. You could also add suitable pictures to some or all flaps, but doing it without pictures means that students will have to concentrate more on the meaning of the words.

After reading, students could draw suitable pictures on their own copy of the book. Another option is for each student to draw one picture of their favourite silly combination, instead of drawing pictures for every page.

They could also make their own versions of this mix and match activity, perhaps keeping the same starters but changing the other columns/ cards/ flaps.

 

Single page version

Make a question which your partner will say “No” to from words in the columns below and see if they can change that question to a one which you say “Yes” to, if possible by only changing one or two columns.

Do you Do you Do you Do you Do you Do you Do you Do you Do you Do you Do you sometimes Do you usually Do you always

brush comb cook eat listen to make pack put on take off wash wash watch write on

your bag your body your breakfast your clothes your dinner your face your hair your homework your lunch music your shoes your teeth the TV

in the morning? in the evening? at seven o’clock? before breakfast? at seven thirty? at midnight? before ten fifteen? at twelve o’clock? after breakfast? after you eat lunch? on Sundays? in the shower? before school?

 

Cards version

Make a question which you are sure that partner will say “No” to from words on the cards below. Then see if they can change it to a question which you say “Yes” to, if possible by only changing one or two cards. You can also write on the blank cards to make similar silly or normal questions.

Do you
Do you sometimes
Do you usually
Do you always
brush			comb				cook
eat			listen to				make
pack			put on				take off
wash			wash				watch
write on
your bag					your body
your breakfast					your clothes
your dinner					your face
your hair					your homework
your lunch					music
your shoes					your teeth
the TV
after	before			at		in			on
you eat lunch?		midnight?			seven o’clock?			seven thirty?
twelve o’clock?		breakfast?			school?			ten fifteen?
the evening?		the morning?			the shower?			Sundays?

 

Book version

Make a question which you are sure that your partner will say “No” to by turning the parts of the pages below. Then see if your partner can change it to a question which you say “Yes” to, if possible by only changing one or two parts.

 

 

 

Do you

 

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brush

 

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your bag

 

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in the morning?

 

 

Do you

 

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comb

 

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your body

 

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in the evening?

 

 

 

Do you

 

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cook

 

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your breakfast

 

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at seven o’clock?

 

 

 

Do you

 

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eat

 

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your clothes

 

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before breakfast?

 

 

 

Do you

 

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listen to

 

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your dinner

 

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at seven thirty?

 

 

Do you

 

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make

 

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your face

 

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at midnight?

 

 

Do you

 

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pack

 

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your hair

 

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before ten fifteen?

 

 

Do you

 

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put on

 

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your homework

 

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at twelve o’clock?

 

 

Do you

 

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take off

 

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your lunch

 

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after breakfast?

 

 

Do you

 

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wash

 

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music

 

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after you eat lunch?

 

 

Do you sometimes

 

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wash

 

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your shoes

 

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on Sundays?

 

 

Do you usually 

 

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watch

 

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your teeth

 

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in the shower?

 

 

Do you always 

 

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write on

 

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the TV

 

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before school?