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"Icon"
Speech frames (1) for Chungju students :
i) Make up your own English sentences with the speech-frames below;
ii) Try to join several speech-frames into one story (if you are clever!).
1. Do you usually ______________ ____________ ?
2. I _____________________________________________ sometimes.
3. Do you have __________________________ ?
4. You always ________________ !
5. What's the _________________ ?
6. I forgot to ______________________________________
7. Just a _____________________
8. Let me ______________________
9. ___________________________ ever write e-mails in English ?
10. She almost always _________________________________
11. They hardly ever _________________________________
12. He isn't afraid to ____________________________
13. I prefer _____________________ with lots of pictures.
14. Do you agree that __________________________________________
15. What does ___________________ believe about ___________________
16. Which bad habits do ____________________________________________
17. How often _________________________________
18. What kind of ______________________________________ watching?
19. I'm just _____________________________________________________
20. Why do you think ________________________________________ ?
21. Are you _____________________________ ?
22. I'm just _________________________________
23. ______________________________ happening?
24. _________________________ a good sitcom?
25. __________ didn't ___________________ watch the news?
26. __________________________________ TV shows do you watch regularly?
27. _________________________________ channel is the news on ?
28. ____________________________ hours of TV do you watch every day?
29. What are your favourite _____________________________?
30. What's _________________________________ a very funny TV show?
31. _____________ the average number of hours _____________________ ?
32. _____________ kind of ___________________________ did you watch yesterday ?
33. Why don't some of your friends ________________________________?
34. Can your teacher ___________________________________ ?
35. Don't give __________________________________
ICON - International Communication Through English *
by Donald Freeman, Kathleen Graves & Linda Lee; 2005
published by McGraw Hill (Asia), New York
ISBN 007-124079-9
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