Let's play - Amadou and Mathias



Taboo game


Kite: cloth, wire, bamboo leaves, glue, air
Health centre: doctor, medicines, beds, white, red cross, ambulance
Road: car, bus, bicycle, traffic lights, black, carbon dioxide
Football pitch: green, grass, circle, goal, nets, player, ball
Contest: prize, win, groups, award, competition, deadline


Sketch-game


Could you draw in less than 2 minutes:
- a parcel?
- a shelf?
- a kite?

- a football pitch?
- a cloud?



Rewrite the following sentences into the passive voice:


1. He has written a letter to Mathias.
2. Mathias sent the exercise books, pencils and other schools things.
3. Amadou and his colleagues have brought wood for the shelves.
4. The teachers gives some clothes, wire and bamboo leaves.
5. The teacher points to the blue flag with gold stars on the cover of the exercise books.
6. The doctor at the health centre used the apportunity to contact the telemedicine service.
7. Europe provides the money for a great number of the project in Africa.
8. African footballers put all their heart into football.
9. Mathias catches a lion by the tail.
10. Mathias and his schoolmates will visit Amadou´s village.


There are some mistakes at the following sentences. Can you find and correct them?



1. Amadou sit under big mango tree at back of his school.

2. Amadou write to her friend Mathias, who live in Europe.
3. Amadou’s class have got the exercise books, pencils and other school things that Mathias sent them.
4. The teacher give pupils some cloth, wire and bamboo leaves.
5. The teacher point to the blue flag with gold stars on the cover of the exercise books. 
6. “Does you recognize this flag?”, he ask. 
7. The flag are the colours of the European Union, the most important partner for Africa.
8. Europe provide the money for a great number of projects in Africa and the countries of the Caribbean and the Pacific.
9. Only 15 kilometers separates Europe from the African continent.
10. There are also a blue sign with stars on a construction site close to the school. 
11. All the people of the village is there to help. 
12. Football are a passion for both of them.
13. Africa have some great champions who started off with only a ragged ball.
14. A lot of European teams wins their championships thanks to their African players. 
15. Mathias, who are in the playground of her school, don’t feels like joining in.



Should/ Shouldn’t – Cases

Case 1: Amadou is sitting under the big mango tree at the back of his school. He is writing a letter to his friend Mathias, who lives in Europe.
He should write him about: exercise books, pencils and other school stuff that Mathias sent them, his feelings about, what happened at Amadou’s school.
He shouldn’t write him about: prepare kites

Case 2: The teacher points to the blue flag with gold stars on the cover of the exercise books.
Pupils should recognize the flag: entrance to the health centre, cyberbus, schools, roads, diseases (like Malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS), construction site close to Amadou’s school

Case 3: Europe provides the money for a great number of projects in Africa and the countries of the Caribbean and the Pacific.
Governments should…
Governments shouldn’t…

Case 4: A lot of European teams win their championships thanks to their African players.
European teams should…
European teams shouldn’t…