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Have with Numbers- Mix and Match

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Have and have got and English numbers funny and sensible matches activities.

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Have with numbers 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 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 something 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 starting and ending options have at least one sensible match and at least one silly match, but a couple of numbers don’t match any of the combinations.

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. To make the pages easier to turn, you could cut a gap of a few millimetres where the dotted lines are. 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. It’s also fun to get them to draw the silly question combinations as they make them, and this helps make sure that they understand the question they are making at that the next person does too.

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

Do you have

Do you have

Does a butterfly have

Does a car have

Does a pack of cards have

Does a rhino have

Does a spider have

Does an ant have

Does an owl have

Does the American flag have

Does this room have

Does your face have

Does your right foot have

two

three

four

five

six

seven

eight

nine

ten

eleven

twelve

thirteen

twenty

claws?

eyes?

fingers?

hearts?

horns?

legs?

legs?

mirrors?

nails?

stripes?

toes?

windows?

wings?

 

Cards version

Make a question which you partner says “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 and normal questions.  

 

Do you have

 

 

Does a butterfly have

 

Does a car have

 

Does a pack of cards have

 

 

Does a rhino have

 

Does a spider have

 

Does an ant have

 

 

Does an owl have

 

Does the US flag have

 

Does this room have

 

 

Does your face have

 

Does your right foot have

 

two

 

 

three

 

four

 

five

 

six

 

seven

 

 

eight

 

nine

 

ten

 

eleven

 

twelve

 

 

thirteen

 

fourteen

 

fifteen

 

sixteen

 

seventeen

 

 

eighteen

 

nineteen

 

twenty

 

twenty one

 

claws?

 

 

eyes?

 

fingers?

 

hearts?

 

horns?

 

 

legs?

 

mirrors?

 

nails?

 

stripes?

 

 

toes?

 

windows?

 

wings?

                   

 

Book version

Make a question which you are sure that your partner will say “No” to by turning 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 have

 

 

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two

 

 

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claws?

 

 

 

 

Do you have

 

 

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three

 

 

-------------------------------

 

eyes?

 

 

 

 

Does a butterfly have

 

 

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four

 

 

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fingers?

 

 

 

 

Does a car have

 

 

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five

 

 

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hearts?

 

 

 

 

Does a pack of cards have

 

 

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six

 

 

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horns?

 

 

 

 

Does a rhino have

 

 

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seven

 

 

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legs?

 

 

 

 

Does a spider have

 

 

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eight

 

 

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legs?

 

 

 

 

Does an ant have

 

 

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nine

 

 

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mirrors?

 

 

 

 

Does an owl have

 

 

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ten

 

 

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nails?

 

 

 

 

Does the American flag have

 

 

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eleven

 

 

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stripes?

 

 

 

 

Does this room have

 

 

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twelve

 

 

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toes?

 

 

 

 

Does your face have

 

 

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thirteen

 

 

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windows?

 

 

 

 

Does your right foot have

 

 

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twenty

 

 

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wings?

 

 

 

 

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