Suggested Supplemental Activities for Easy at Work

Comprehension Exercises (individual, pairs, small groups)

1. After watching each lesson have students answer the five “wh”- questions:

   Who, Where, When, Why and What.

2. Have them retell or summarize the episode in their own words.

Listening Exercises

1. Use the lesson script, copy and omit certain words.  Students listen again and fill in with the words they watch the video lesson.

2. Give dictations – words, expressions, sentences or filling out forms from the video with different information

3. Hand out a list of new and old (from previous lessons) vocabulary and students listen and check the words they hear.

Vocabulary

1. Have students categorize groups of words. Students and/or teacher can group the vocabulary and name the category.

2. Make flashcard drills from pictures in the workbooks and ask students to 1. identify and 2. make a sentence with the word

3. Hand out a list of scrambled letters or spelling mistakes of vocabulary words and have students correct them.

4. Students can be asked to find words NOT given in the workbook but that are in the video that they do not understand and look up meanings

5. Students can create their own dictionary of words from both the workbook and from #4 on the list – either in a book or on cards.

Grammar

1. Teacher can create other drills to follow drills in workbook using the same directions.

2. Students can look at readings in the workbooks or the script and underline or circle verbs, nouns, adjectives, comparatives, prepositions, etc.

3. Students can take sentences and change to negatives or questions or to a different tense.

4. Students can be asked to write original sentences modeled after those given in the exercises.

5. Give additional punctuation and capitalization exercises. (take sentences from workbook, remove capitals and punctuation and give to students.)

Life Skills

1. Students fill out forms similar to those in the workbook with their own or with made up information.  You can download forms from the EASY at Work website.

2. For sequencing exercises, students can create their own steps or instructions and teach or give them to other students. 

For example:

how to make coffee in a coffee maker

how to use a coin laundry machine

how to operate a cash register

how to mix a drink

how to prepare a recipe

how to open a combination lock on a locker

how to use a fax machine

etc.

3. Teacher can make charts with Do and Don’t.

For example:

Job interviews

Hotel safety

Have the students make suggestions orally in class, in small groups

Or as an individual assignment.

4. Students role play interviews and situations that they might face working in a hotel.

For example: 

Angry customer

Lost customer

An accident

Angry supervisor

Employee breaks something in a guest’s room

Asking questions during an interview

Clarification questions

Miscellaneous

1. Teacher can discuss idiomatic expressions used in videos and workbooks

2. Cultural tips found throughout workbooks – teacher can review by using true/ false exercises and have discussions comparing US culture with culture of students home country.

3. Review tips, temperature charts, giving change, discounts (all math skills used in workbooks).  Teacher can make up new situations similar to those in workbooks.

4. If internet access available, have students look up job opportunities in their area and write down requirements, pay, benefits for each job.