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Procedure: The students note down the answer to the question: if
you weren't here, where would you be?' Share ideas. Then
introduce a slight variation: if you weren't here, where would you
like to be?'
Other similar questions: if you weren't yourself, who would you
like to be?' or: ‘if you weren't living now, when would you have
liked to live?’

Imaginary classroom

Describing a room; use of prepositions.
Procedure: Tell the students to imagine that the room is absolutely
empty: no furniture, no people, nothing. They have to create their
ideal classroom by suggesting how to 'refurnish' it. For example:
There is a thick soft wall-to-wall carpet on the floor.
There is a television in that corner, with a video.

Imaginative descriptions

Descriptions.

Preparation: Any two pictures large enough for the class to see
clearly.
Procedure: Hold up two pictures chosen at random and ask the
students to suggest a possible relationship between them.
Encourage imaginative, even ridiculous ideas. For example, a
picture of a car and a picture of a packet of cigarettes:
Student A: They are both dangerous to other people, not only
to the driver or to the smoker.
Student B: They both give a lot of taxes to the government.
Student C: The driver of that car wants to stop smoking so that
he can pay for the car.
Student D: I don't like it when people smoke in a car.

Note: The connections can be personal, or they can be more
objective and part of other people's experience, as in the

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