This is a rough plan of the exercises I have created for use with Chapter 6 of  Looking Ahead, Book 3.  I based them on two of the chapter readings, a survey and a magazine article.  There are three types of exercises  - grammar exercises supporting the grammar found in the GLR section of the book, which also correlate to the readings; academic vocabulary exercises based on words drawn from the exercises and their word familes found in Coxhead's A New Academic Word List; and idiomatic vocabulary covering phrases and collocations found in the articles.
 
 
 

Exercise 1	Idiomatic English and School Speak - reading 1 A cloze exercise using phrases related to college life.  I wanted them to have an idea about the jargon that fills a student's life.
Exercise 2	Word Families 1 - reading 1 A matching/close exercise using the word family of  'participate'.  For my first word family exercise I chose only one word to get them used to the idea of working with word families.
Exercise 3	Modal Match up - reading 2 A matching exercise working with the grammar definitions from using modals to give advice.  This is based on the GLR definitions. I thought it would push them to really consider the meanings behind the modals and differentiate between them a little more.
Exercise 4	Modal quiz - reading 2 Students have to choose the correct modal for the sentence depending on the definition of the modal.  This should further support what I was attempting in Exercise 3.
Exercise 5	Sentence Scramble - reading 2 Working with word order when modals are involved.  Sometimes students still have trouble with word order where modals are concerned. Plus it furthers the modal theme of the past two exercises.
Exercise 6	Idiomatic English 2 - reading 2 A matching exercise for some of the phrases found in reading 2.  I thought its time to switch to more vocabulary.  This was created along the same vein as Exercise 1.  There were a lot of colloquialisms and idioms in that reading.
Exercise 7	Body Parts - reading 2 A quiz testing the meaning of some of the vocabulary, some collocations, some idioms, that have to do with the body.  I found it amusing how many body idioms and use of the body I found in a reading on teens working through school, so I made up an exercise to point it out.
Exercise 8	Word Families 2 - reading 2 A close exercise working with the word 'require' and its word family.  A second word family exercise - they should be able to figure this one out a bit faster than the first one.
Exercise 9	Should/Must/Have by Betty Schrampfer Azar - reading 2 With definitions borrowed from Azar's series, students must determine when to use should and when to use must or have to, and how meaning can change when they do.  Students have trouble discerning the strength of these modals in particular.  I want them to take a minute to think about what the sentences really mean when they use the modal.
Exercise 10	Word Families Crossword 1 - reading 2 More work with word families from reading 2.  This and the next exercise are really just to enhance their academic vocabulary and start thinking about how many words have numerous forms.
Exercise 11	Word Families crossword 2 - reading 2 A second crossword incorporating word families from reading 2
Exercise 12	Controlling Strength of Generalizations - reading 2 A quiz working with adverbs of frequency, modals and quantifiers to express generalizations in writing.  Again, I wanted to accent the GLR and the way it explains the grammar.
Exercise 13	Ode to Activity 6-18 - reading 2 An electronic version of this exercise using past time to strengthen argument.  I liked this exercise in the book, so I wanted to try adapting it to Hot Potatoes.  Students can do both exercises without getting bored because I made some minor  changes.
Exercise 14	Adverbs of Frequency- reading 2 An exercise working with word placement of adverbs of frequency.  Again, in sentence building, students tend to have trouble with word order of adverbs.  This is one way to practice.
Exercise 15	Modals controlling strength of generalizations - reading 2 A fill-in-the-blank activity working with modals, helping students to recognize the subtleties between modals used in making generalizations. My final exercise working with the GLR.  I created it for the same reasons I created Exercise 3.
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