Some and Any- things in common speaking
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Personalised oral practice of some and any by students trying to make sentences that are true for both/ all of them from typical sentence stems, with easy and more tricky uses of some and any.
Lesson Plan Content:
Some and Any- things in common speaking
Share information with your partner and ask them to questions to fill as many gaps below
as you can with information which is true for both of you. Your teacher will tell you if you
should use just the top section (basic meanings/ uses) or both sections.
Basic meanings/ uses – some for statements and any for questions and negatives
I have some _____________________________ but my partner doesn’t have any.
I don’t have any _______________________________ but my partner has some.
I have some _______________________________ but my partner only has one.
My partner has a lot of _________________________ but I only have some.
We both have some _______________________________________________.
We both have a lot of ________________________ but want to get rid of some.
We both want some ________________________________ but don’t have any.
We both want some _______________________________ but only have one now.
Neither of us have any ____________________________________________.
Neither of us need any ________________________________ but we have some.
We used to have some ____________________________ but we don’t now.
Other meanings/ uses
We don’t want some __________________________s, but one would be okay.
We don’t want some ____________________________, but a little would be okay.
Some _________________________________ is not enough for us, we need a lot.
On a hot day, any ___________________________________ at all is good for us.
We’d like to find some place where we can ______________________________.
Ask about any sentences which you couldn’t complete, and see if other groups have done
so. Then find more things in common, but this time making your own sentences with some
and any.
Do the same, but flipping a coin to see if the next sentence should be with “some” (heads)
or “any” (tails).
Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2021
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